#313: Rethinking Wellness: Wellness Culture and Infertility, the Challenges of Baby Feeding, and Unpacking Food Sensitivities with Jenee Desmond-Harris

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

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

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jenée Desmond-Harris, Slate Magazine's Dear Prudence advice columnist, joins us to discuss her path toward making peace with food and realizing she didn’t have food sensitivities, how infertility can make people desperate enough to try dubious wellness-culture treatments, the harmful wellness messages she’s gotten while navigating her son’s sensitive stomach as a breastfeeding parent, how social media influences our relationships with food and body, and lots more.

Jenée Desmond-Harris is a Slate staff writer and editor. She writes the Dear Prudence advice column and previously worked at the New York Times, Vox.com and the Root. Find her work at slate.com.

If you like this conversation, you can hear lots more like it on the new Rethinking Wellness podcast! Just search for Rethinking Wellness with Christy Harrison wherever you get your podcasts, or sign up to get it in your inbox each week at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.

Pre-order Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, for its April 25 release!

If you're ready to break free from diet culture and make peace with food, 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 upcoming book, The Wellness Trap.
0:04.4	Break free from diet culture, disinformation, and dubious diagnoses, and find your true well-being,
0:10.4	which is available for pre-order now. Just go to ChristyHarrison.com,
0:14.8	slash the Wellness Trap, to learn more and pre-order for its April 2023 release.
0:20.2	That's ChristyHarrison.com slash the Wellness Trap.
0:24.0	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture,
0:28.7	and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach.
0:33.6	I'm your host Christy Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating
0:38.2	counselor, journalist, and author of the book's anti-diet, which is available now wherever books are
0:43.6	sold, and The Wellness Trap, which will be out in early 2023. And by the way, on this show,
0:49.8	I avoid saying diet culture stuff like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor
0:55.0	swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised.
0:59.1	Hey there, I'm Christy Harrison, and welcome to episode 313 of Food Psych,
1:29.0	which is a very special one because it happens to fall on our 10-year anniversary of March 13,
1:34.8	313, which is the day I came up with the name and concept for this podcast back in 2013.
1:41.8	And we have a great show for you today with Janay Desmond Harris, Slate Magazine's Dear
1:46.9	Prudence Advice Columnist. Janay and I have known each other for several years and have worked
1:52.0	together on various writing projects, so I knew we'd have a lot to talk about, and we really did,
1:57.7	including her history with wellness culture, how infertility can make people, including the two of us,
2:04.1	desperate enough to try dubious wellness treatments or things we're not sure are really going to work,
2:09.3	the harmful wellness messages she's gotten while navigating her son's sensitive stomach as a
2:14.0	breastfeeding parent, how social media influences our relationships with food and body, and lots more.
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