#290: Is This 12-Step Group Harming Your Recovery?

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Food Psych Programs, Inc.

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We discuss a popular 12-step group that purports to help people recover from eating issues, and whether it actually causes more harm than good. Christy explains why so-called "overeating" is often driven by restriction and deprivation, and why using an abstinence model can make it worse.

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0:00.0	This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my Intro to Intuitive Eating Mini Course.
0:04.8	If you're interested in exploring how intuitive eating can help and recovery from the full
0:09.0	spectrum of disordered eating and eating disorders, check out my Intro to Intuitive Eating Mini Course.
0:14.7	It'll help you start untangling yourself worth from your eating and your weight
0:18.5	so that you can start feeling freer and more at peace with food in your body.
0:22.9	Just go to christieheresand.com slash minicourse to get it.
0:26.0	That's christieheresand.com slash minicourse.
0:30.2	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture,
0:34.9	and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach.
0:39.4	I'm your host christieheresand and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor,
0:44.8	journalist and author of the book's anti-diet, which is available now wherever books are sold,
0:50.1	and the wellness trap which will be out in early 2023.
0:53.2	And by the way, on this show I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers,
0:58.9	but we don't censor swear words or other adult language so listener discretion is advised.
1:29.2	Hey there, welcome to this episode of Food Psych.
1:32.0	I'm your host christieheresand and today I'm going to be answering an audience question
1:36.0	about a popular 12-step group that purports to help people recover from eating issues via an
1:41.6	abstinence model and whether that actually causes more harm than good.
1:46.4	And just a content note that we will be mentioning the name of the group in both the question
1:50.3	and the answer because there was really no way around it this time.
1:53.8	So if that feels like it would cause any issues for your recovery at this point,
1:57.5	you might want to skip this episode and come back for the next one.
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