#58: Body-Positive Healthcare & Fat Acceptance with Ragen Chastain, Health At Every Size Speaker and Activist

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

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

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🗓️ 5 April 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Ragen Chastain (Dances with Fat, body-positive speaker, writer, and dancer) shares how she repaired her relationship to food after a long period of dieting, how we can improve healthcare for people in larger bodies, why diet culture and weight stigma are much more harmful to your health than being fat, and lots more.

Ragen Chastain is an internationally recognized thought leader in the fields of self-esteem, body image, Health at Every Size, and corporate wellness. She is a sought after speaker on the college, corporate, and conference circuits who has set the stage on fire everywhere from Google Headquarters to Cal Tech to the Models of Pride Conference.

She is the author of the blog DanceswithFat.org, the book Fat: The Owner's Manual, a columnist for Ms. Fit Magazine, serves on the Editorial Board for Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, and frequently appears as a topic expert on television and in print. Ragen is a featured interviewee in the documentaries America the Beautiful 2 - The Thin Commandments, and A Stage for Size. She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and their adorable dogs, and in her free time she is training for her first IRONMAN triathlon.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Food Psych, a podcast about nutrition, eating disorders, and body image.
0:04.7	I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified
0:08.8	intuitive eating counselor, specializing in health at every size. Join me as I talk with interesting
0:14.4	people from all walks of life about their relationships to food.
0:30.3	Hey guys, welcome to episode 58. Today my guest is the fabulous Reagan Chastain. She's a body
0:39.1	positive speaker, writer, and dancer, whom you probably know from the blog dances with fat.
0:44.0	She regularly writes about eating disorders and the importance of health at every size and
0:48.4	achieving a full recovery and weight bias among medical providers. And so we got into all of that
0:54.0	and lots more today in our talk. It was such a great conversation and I can't wait to share
0:58.4	that with you in just a moment. But first I want to point you to a couple of great resources
1:03.4	for helping improve your relationship with food. The first is my free quiz to assess your
1:08.8	relationship with food and see how healthy it is. I'll send you your results via email along with
1:14.0	more than a dozen personalized individualized tips to help you make peace with food wherever you
1:19.5	might fall in the spectrum right now. Take the quiz and get your results today at ChristyHarrison.com
1:25.4	slash quiz. That's ChristyHarrison.com slash quiz. The second resource I want to share is my intuitive
1:32.3	eating online course. It's a 13 week program that I created to help you work through all the
1:37.5	principles of intuitive eating and depth and really demystify and troubleshoot the common areas
1:43.4	where people tend to get stuck. I'll show you how to recognize the diet mentality even in its
1:48.4	subtle forms and how to start substituting healthy thoughts instead. I'll share my secrets to
1:53.8	making food and exercise choices from a place of self-care rather than self-control and I'll teach
2:00.0	you how to navigate emotional eating and how to stop alternating between restricting and overeating
2:05.1	and so so so much more. Several participants have shared that the courses help them make peace with
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