#260: Redefining Health and Wellness, Hearing Your Own Voice, and Why Fear Isn't a Good Motivator with Melissa Toler, Anti-Diet Writer and Speaker
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Anti-diet writer, speaker, and podcaster Melissa Toler returns to discuss her new podcast, Hearing Our Own Voice; redefining health and wellness to be more inclusive; why fear is not a motivator for behavior change; finding intrinsic motivation for movement; and so much more. Plus, in “Ask Food Psych,” Christy answers a listener question about what to do if you find yourself consistently bingeing on the weekends.
Melissa Toler is a writer and speaker. Her work encourages people to make the connection between our culture's oppressive health and beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-acceptance. Her goal is to help people use expressive writing to unlearn harmful messages and behaviors from years of chronic dieting. Melissa also has a background as a pharmacist and certified wellness coach. Find her online at MelissaToler.com.
If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my book, Anti-Diet, Reclaim Your Time, |
| 0:05.4 | Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, which is available wherever books are sold. |
| 0:11.0 | Just go to ChristyHarrison.com slashbook to order it now. |
| 0:15.1 | That's ChristyHarrison.com slashbook. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, |
| 0:33.6 | and Author of Anti-Diet. |
| 0:35.8 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds about their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:43.8 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 0:49.2 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:57.2 | And I'm a kind revolution, if you're held bad every size, if you're food to my food. |
| 1:12.6 | Food is mine. |
| 1:16.6 | Hey there, welcome to episode 260 of Food Psych. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm your host Christy Harrison, and today I'm talking with Anti-Diet Writer, Speaker, and Podcast, or Melissa Toller, for her third appearance on the pod. |
| 1:33.2 | We talk about her new podcast, Hearing Our Own Voice, Redefining Health and Wellness to Be More Inclusive, |
| 1:41.0 | Why Fear is Not a Motivator for Change, Finding Intrinsic Motivation for Movement, and So Much More. |
| 1:48.8 | I can't wait to share a conversation with you in just a moment. |
| 1:51.8 | And by the way, I am recording this before we know the results of the elections still. |
| 1:57.8 | So I hope by the time you hear this, we'll all be celebrating a win for democracy. |
| 2:02.4 | Okay, so now it's time for Ask Food Psych, and this week's listener question is from a listener named Jay, who writes, |
| 2:08.6 | Hi Christy, I love the show and I cannot wait to read your book. |
| 2:12.2 | I struggle with binge eating in the context of A-N-B-P, which is anorexia binge purge subtype, |
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