“The Trickiest Part Of All Is When I Felt it Actually Worked” — Recovering from Diet and Wellness Culture with Sarah-Jane Garcia
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Pharmacist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Sarah-Jane Garcia joins us to discuss how smart people get caught up in wellness culture.
She shares her path from the realities of being a pharmacist experimenting with elimination diets to how getting certified in integrative medicine exacerbated her orthorexia to why becoming a parent finally opened her eyes to the fear-mongering happening in wellness communities.
Behind the paywall, Christy and Sarah-Jane discuss what it actually took for Sarah-Jane to break free from diet culture, as well as how she returned to conventional medicine through Intuitive Eating.
This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness.
Sarah-Jane Garcia is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor with personal experience navigating binge eating, restriction, and obsessive clean eating. Discovering Intuitive Eating freed her from intense struggle with food—and inspired her to become a counselor, so she could help other women do the same.
Sarah-Jane offers 1:1 coaching as well as a 12-week group program focused on the Principles of Intuitive Eating. She’s also a Specialty Pharmacist, and her approach blends science, psychology, and lived experience to guide you toward a healthier, more peaceful relationship with food.
More from Christy:
Check out Christy’s three books, Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, and The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook for a deeper dive into the topics covered on the pod.
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.
For more critical thinking and compassionate skepticism about wellness and diet culture, check out Christy’s Rethinking Wellness podcast! You can also sign up to get it in your inbox every week at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.
Ask a question about diet and wellness culture, disordered-eating recovery, and the anti-diet approach for a chance to have it answered on Rethinking Wellness. You can also subscribe to the Food Psych Weekly newsletter to check out previous answers!
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| 0:59.8 | This message reflects one person's experience. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast dedicated to critiquing diet and wellness culture and answering your questions about intuitive eating and the anti-diet approach. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, |
| 1:09.8 | and I'm a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, journalist and author of the book's anti-diet, the wellness trap, and the new emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating, and body image workbook, which are all available wherever you get your books or at Christy Harrison.com slash books. That's Christyharrison.com slash books. |
| 1:28.7 | And by the way, on this show, we avoid diet culture details like weight and calorie numbers, |
| 1:33.1 | but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, so listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:39.0 | Anti-diet revolution. |
| 1:43.2 | We're for help |
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