#53: Food and Anxiety with Kat Kinsman, Food Writer and Author of "Hi, Anxiety"

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

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🗓️ 2 February 2016

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Writer Kat Kinsman (Tasting Table, CNN, Hi, Anxiety) discusses mental illness in the food industry, how anxiety and depression have influenced her eating, how she's learned to cope with the physical demands of writing about food for a living, and lots more.

Kat is the Editor at Large and former Editor in Chief of Tasting Table. She recently founded Chefs with Issues, a website devoted to sharing stories and providing resources to people in the food industry who struggle with issues including depression, addictions, PTSD, eating disorders, and more.

Previously Kat was the Managing Editor of CNN’s Eatocracy, edited CNN’s Matrimony section and First Person essay series, and was a writer and editor for CNN Living. She covers food, booze, lady-being, person-being, mental health, disabilities, sex, pop culture (especially YA novels), weddings, and dogs. Mostly food, though. She was nominated for a James Beard Broadcast Award in the TV Segment category in 2013, but she didn’t win. She also didn’t win the EPPY Best Food Website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over in 2012 and 2013 (though Eatocracy was nominated), but she sure as heck did win in 2011.

Her memoir, Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Bad Case of Nerves, is being published in May of 2016 by Dey Street Books, and is available for pre-order now.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I remember I was teeing the little gums bleeding.
0:06.3	Cry day evening it was all about eating.
0:08.9	When I became a teen it was all about beefing out ready for the world.
0:13.5	Try and seek my teething.
0:15.3	Hey guys, welcome to episode 53 of Food Psych.
0:18.4	Today I'm talking with Kat Kinsman who is an amazing guest and writer.
0:23.0	She writes about food primarily.
0:24.8	She's the editor at large at tasting table and previously was at CNN's E-Tocracy.
0:30.3	But she has struggled with anxiety her whole life and she opened up about it when she was
0:34.3	at CNN and did some great personal essays for them about anxiety.
0:38.4	She now has a new memoir coming out called High Anxiety about her struggles with anxiety
0:43.2	throughout her life.
0:44.8	She's such a great guest and sort of embodies so many of the things that food psych covers
0:49.8	from an interest in food and sort of a strong relationship to food that drove her to a career
0:55.8	in the food industry.
0:57.5	And then also these long time struggles with mental health that she's now kind of being
1:01.6	public about and discussing her road to becoming incredibly successful and having a huge
1:07.8	platform in media but also having these sort of behind closed doors.
1:12.2	And struggles like so many of us do with self-worth and ability to get out there and do things.
1:18.8	And so I think it's so brave and so wonderful that she's sharing all this with us.
1:22.9	And then also she just launched an amazing website that all of you guys should check out.
1:28.3	It's called Chefs with Issues and it's about mental illness in the food industry.
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