#263: Update on COVID-19 and Weight, and (Re)claiming Queer, Trans, and Autistic Identities in Eating-Disorder Recovery with Haley Jones, Certified Body Trust Provider
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Anti-diet therapist Haley Jones joins us to discuss how their queer and trans identities affected their relationship with food and body, how autism gave them a different perspective on authority and hierarchical relationships, how fatphobia shows up in training programs for counselors and therapists, being “in recovery” vs. being “recovered,” and so much more. Plus, in “Ask Food Psych,” Christy discusses the state of the science on COVID-19 and weight.
Haley Jones, MS, LPC-intern is a therapist and Certified Body Trust Provider in Portland, Oregon serving queer and trans folx dealing with eating disorders. They work from from an anti-racist, anti-colonial, sex-positive, pro-disability justice, kink positive, fat positive, polyam-friendly, trauma-informed, Health at Every Size®, and strengths-based foundation. As a white, queer, trans & non-binary, neurodivergent, disabled, documented, currently in a smaller body, low-income, first-generation college student & service provider, Haley holds both privileged and oppressed identities. Find them online at TheQueerCounselor.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course in Toot of Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:05.8 | If you're ready to break free from diet culture and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:10.4 | learn more and sign up for the course at christieherison.com slash course. |
| 0:15.2 | That's christieherison.com slash course. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:25.1 | and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host christieherison and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian, certified intuitive |
| 0:32.7 | eating counselor, an author of the book, anti-diet, reclaim your time, money, well-being, |
| 0:38.3 | and happiness through intuitive eating, which is available now wherever books are sold. |
| 0:43.3 | Join me here every week as I interview interesting people from all different backgrounds, |
| 0:47.9 | but their paths toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:51.6 | And by the way, on this show we bleep out diet culture stuff like weight and calorie |
| 0:56.0 | numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion |
| 1:00.9 | is advised. |
| 1:27.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 263 of Food Psych. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm your host christieherison and today I'm talking with anti-diet therapist hailey jones |
| 1:36.8 | about how their different identities affected their relationship with food and their body, |
| 1:41.8 | how autism gave them a different perspective on authority and hierarchical relationships, |
| 1:47.9 | the importance of advocacy and mutual aid, counseling work at the individual and societal |
| 1:54.1 | levels, and so much more. |
| 1:56.6 | I can't wait to share our conversation with you in just a moment, but first it's time |
| 2:00.6 | for ask food psych. |
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