#147: Health Anxiety, Coping with Uncertainty, and How Diet Culture Impacts Our Mental Health with Dr. Diana Gordon (Best of)
This week on the Full Plate Podcast, we are revisiting a very special episode with Dr. Diana Gordon. You don't want to miss this conversation. It's everything.
Big picture, we're discussing how to approach mental health in a sea of diet and wellness misinformation -- including whether or not movement and food have a meaningful impact on anxiety and depression. We get into what it's like to ping pong back and forth between dieting and intuitive eating, how diet culture seizes on our fear of uncertainty to sell us a faulty product, and how to sit with and process our collective health anxiety.
Listen to hear more about…
Being an empath in the midst of overwhelming global events
How to affect positive change in your own community
Diana's story & her passion for helping people who have struggled to eat intuitively
How the diet industry makes money off of our shame
What it looks like to have dieting take over all aspects of your life
Developing and overcoming health anxiety
How we can practice true self-care
Actively undoing our core beliefs about food and our bodies
Weight stigma in therapy and psychotherapy spaces
The truth about exercise and mental health
Why we latch onto diets when we're going through a health challenge
Healthism and assumptions based on appearance
How much control we actually have over our health
Embracing the messy and often chaotic experience of food freedom
More About Diana:
Dr. Diana Gordon is a licensed psychologist, coach, and content creator specializing in Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size (HAES). She combines evidence-based skills, such as mindfulness, cognitive behavioral skills, and other coping tools with Intuitive Eating principles. As both a psychologist and an IE-certified provider, she offers evaluation and treatment for both eating-related concerns as well as other mental health concerns. As a person of size, she draws on both her personal and professional experience to dismantle fatphobia and to help people live a life free from dieting. You can find Diana on her website or Instagram.
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