Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
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Helping people make peace with food since 2013. Registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS talks with guests and answers listener questions about making peace with food, healing from disordered eating, learning body acceptance, practicing intuitive eating, escaping harmful wellness culture, and more--all from a body-positive, anti-diet perspective. Along the way, Christy shares her own journey from disordered eater and dieter to food writer and anti-diet dietitian. This podcast challenges diet culture in all its forms--including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Food Psych® is…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Christy Harrison traces how diet and wellness promises acquire authority, then shows their effects on food, body image, and health decisions.
Food Psych follows the promises of diet and wellness culture to the places where they become restriction, shame, expense, or misplaced certainty.
Blood sugar is not a report card; Christy Harrison has questions for the people handing you one.
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A stigma-aware conversation about diabetes care, food rules, and wellness-culture pressure.
Food Psych spends its time on diabetes care without slipping into scare tactics. Christy Harrison talks with dietitian and diabetes educator Janice Dada about blame, wellness-culture pressure, and the claim that diabetes can be reversed by cutting foods and taking supplements.
An anti-diet take on responsive feeding that still leaves room for family complications.
Food Psych treats feeding kids as a matter of responsiveness rather than control, and that is where the discussion is most persuasive. Christy Harrison and her guest move through responsive feeding, the older division-of-responsibility model, and the need for more flexibility…
A careful look at alcohol, recovery, and the wellness language wrapped around both.
Alcohol sits at the center of the conversation, which expands into recovery, disordered eating, and wellness culture as parts of the same pattern.
A reflective look at recovery as an uneven process, not a finish line.
This episode treats recovery as uneven and unfinished, not something that snaps neatly into place, and it keeps diet and wellness culture in view throughout.
A measured anti-diet conversation about recovery and the limits of conventional care.
Christy Harrison frames the conversation as part of Food Psych's critique of diet and wellness culture, and the episode stays close to the guest's recovery from disordered eating.
A clear-eyed look at GLP-1 hype, body autonomy, and the reach of diet culture.
GLP-1 hype gives this episode a useful through line as it moves from diet culture to body autonomy, parenting, and the politics of anti-fatness.
A reflective anti-diet conversation that ties Kirsten Powers' health story to wellness culture.
Kirsten Powers talks through chronic fatigue, illness, dubious diagnoses, and the wellness treatments that came with them, then lands on what she came to see as the real cause of her symptoms.
Anxiety, wellness culture, and food rules collide in a conversation that keeps each thread distinct.
Leah Kern's story tracks how anxiety can make a wellness diet feel like safety, until that promise turns into food rules and disordered eating.
Shawn Stevenson interviews researchers and coaches on nutrition, sleep, hormones, and fitness.
Supplement labels, decoded with conviction.
Practical health conversations for reducing overwhelm.
This episode segment introduces a Q&A from another podcast discussing whether diets can address period problems, within the context of intuitive eating and anti-diet approaches.
Christy Harrison talks with physician and writer Mara Gordon.
Christy Harrison welcomes writer, speaker, and friend of the pod Regan Chastain for a conversation about GLP-1 drugs used for weight loss.
Christy Harrison talks with parent coach Una Hansen about how a physical therapist visit for back pain sent her down a wellness culture rabbit hole.
Amanda Martinez Beck talks with Christy Harrison about taking Ozempic for type 2 diabetes while remaining committed to fat liberation and size acceptance.
Christy Harrison opens an episode with Leah Kern about anxiety.
Pharmacist Sarah-Jane Garcia shares her journey from being deeply immersed in wellness culture to recovering from disordered eating and orthorexia.
Christy Harrison interviews anti-diet personal stylist Daisy Gillespie about her bad experience with functional medicine, including a pseudoscientific diagnostic device, and how it relates to broader critiques of wellness culture.
Christy Harrison interviews dietitian Jenna Hollenstein about her personal journey with alcoholism and recovery, exploring the intersection with disordered eating, the role of wellness culture in sobriety trends, and alternative recovery methods like meditation over traditional 12-step programs.
Christy Harrison talks with registered dietitian Jackie Silver about nutrition for neurodivergent people, including autism, ADHD, and disability, and how her work grew out of a rare vascular condition and years of physical therapy.
Christy Harrison answers a listener question about coping with “diet evangelists” at work, in family conversations, and across social media during January’s “peak diet season.” She frames the problem around diet talk about intermittent fasting, WW, New Year’s resolutions, and weight-loss ads, then offers five strategies: internal dialogue, boundaries, selective unplugging, marshalling support, and nourishment.
Christy Harrison opens the conversation with a clear anti-diet frame.
Christy Harrison talks with dietitian and diabetes educator Janice Dada about diabetes, stigma, and intuitive eating.
Christy Harrison talks with Kirsten Powers about a long stretch of chronic fatigue, illness, dubious diagnoses, and wild out there wellness treatments.
Christy Harrison opens with a content note and frames the conversation as a cross-post about disordered eating and recovery from diet and wellness culture.
Christy Harrison talks with journalist Virginia Sol Smith about how GLP-1 hype has shifted the diet-culture conversation.
Christy Harrison talks with dietitians and diabetes educators Jessica Jones and Wendy Lopez about why people with diabetes do not need to center weight loss.
Christy Harrison talks with filmmaker and podcaster Kelsey Snelling about Camp Shane and Snelling's new podcast, Camp Shame.
Christy Harrison brings back intuitive eating co-author Elise Resch to push back on a handful of stubborn myths.
Christy Harrison introduces a Q&A episode from her other podcast, Rethinking Wellness, focusing on intuitive eating and rejecting diet culture.
Christy Harrison discusses the problematic notion of eating a large number of plants for gut health and critiques the demonization of ultra-processed foods, with a focus on anti-fat bias and distinguishing good science from hype.
Christy Harrison discusses intuitive eating and critiques diet culture with a guest, exploring how fashion industry experiences affect body image and food relationships.
Christy Harrison interviews endocrinologist Gregory Dodell about myths and facts regarding hormones, diet culture, and intuitive eating.
Christy Harrison interviews psychologist Charlotte Markey about body image myths, chronic illness, body positivity vs.
Christy Harrison discusses wellness culture and diet culture with a guest, promoting intuitive eating and body positivity.
Christy Harrison discusses intuitive eating, critiques diet and wellness culture, and interviews advice columnist Janae Desmond Harris about her history with wellness culture.
Christy Harrison discusses intuitive eating, critiques diet and wellness culture, and answers listener questions about making peace with food.
Christy Harrison introduces the podcast and discusses her upcoming series on wellness culture, featuring interviews from her book research.
Christy Harrison answers a listener question about dealing with diet culture messaging and diet evangelists during the new year peak diet season.