#46: Conquering Body Shame and Weight Obsession with Harriet Brown, Author of "Body of Truth"
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Author Harriet Brown (Body of Truth) discusses how she overcame her longtime struggles with body shame and weight stigma, how her daughter's anorexia changed her relationship with food, why she became a vocal proponent of the Health At Every Size® movement, how to fight back against diet culture, and lots more.
Harriet Brown is a professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and has nearly 30 years of experience as a writer and editor. She's worked at magazines including Redbook and New York Woman, and writes for many national publications including The New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, Vogue, Psychology Today, Prevention, and Parenting.
Her most recent book, Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It, has been hailed as "a must-read for anyone ready to start shaking this fat = bad, thin = good obsession" (Bustle). Her previous book, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia, won a "Books for a Better Life" award in 2011. Brown also edited the anthology Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image. Find her online at HarrietBrown.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to episode 46 of Food Psych. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today we have an amazing guest for you, Harriet Brown, |
| 0:23.8 | author of the book Body of Truth, How Science, History and Culture Drive Our Obsession |
| 0:29.3 | with Weight and what we can do about it. |
| 0:31.7 | I talk with her about her own struggle with weight and body image, which started very young, |
| 0:36.8 | and how her daughter's experience with anorexia helped shape her own relationship to food |
| 0:42.0 | in a better way. |
| 0:43.1 | She's such an inspiration. |
| 0:44.4 | Her book is so full of amazing evidence and anecdotes and ideas, so I can't wait to |
| 0:49.9 | share that conversation with you in just a moment. |
| 0:52.4 | But first, I want to point you to a couple of great resources for helping improve your relationship |
| 0:56.9 | with food. |
| 0:58.0 | The first is my free quiz to assess your relationship with food and see how healthy it is. |
| 1:03.2 | I'll send you your results via email along with more than a dozen personalized, individualized |
| 1:08.5 | tips to help you make peace with food wherever you might fall in the spectrum right now. |
| 1:13.4 | Take the quiz and get your results today at KristiHarrison.com slash quiz. |
| 1:18.4 | That's KristiHarrison.com slash quiz. |
| 1:21.3 | The second resource I want to share is my Intuitive Eating Online Course. |
| 1:26.0 | It's a 13-week program that I created to help you work through all the principles of |
| 1:29.8 | Intuitive Eating in depth and really demystify and troubleshoot the common areas where |
| 1:35.3 | people tend to get stuck. |
| 1:36.8 | I'll show you how to recognize the diet mentality, even in its subtle forms, and how to start substituting |
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