Orthorexia: The Dark Side of Diet Culture - with Meg Bradbury
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One of the most personal episodes of this season, we talk about one of the hardest things I’ve navigated in my life: disordered eating and the very difficult path of recovery.
In this episode, my guest Meg Bradbury and I talk about:
- What Body Trust is, and how it can help us heal disordered eating.
- Why diet culture is the worst and how it affects our lives.
- Orthorexia: what it is and how it has affected our lives personally.
- Practical steps for building more Body Trust and continuing with eating disorder recovery.
CW: Eating disorders, dieting, and brief mention of suicidal ideation
About Meg:
Meg Bradbury is certified as a Body Trust® Specialist, Accessible Yoga™ Teacher, and anti-diet nutritionist. They are in private practice working with individuals and groups advocating for body acceptance, body diversity awareness, fat liberation, aging in power, eating disorder/disordered eating/recovery, freedom with food, and meaningful movement. Meg’s work is guided by the principles of ASDAH/Health at Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, and the Ellyn Satter Institute through a social/racial justice and intersectional feminist lens. Meg’s practice is fat positive, weight neutral, and queer/trans spectrum affirming. As an eating disorder and exercise bulimia survivor, Meg’s work is centered in the tenets of relational cultural theory; they hold space for clients of all ages with compassion, empathy, and humor.
IG: @lamplight.space
Website: www.lamplight.space
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