I’m so excited to announce the launch of Rethinking Wellness, a podcast exploring the diet culture, disinformation, dubious diagnoses, and disordered eating that are so pervasive in contemporary wellness culture—and how to avoid falling into these traps so that you can find your own true well-being.
Rethinking Wellness is produced and hosted by Christy Harrison, author of Anti-Diet and the upcoming book The Wellness Trap and creator of the long-running Food Psych podcast.
Subscribe to Rethinking Wellness wherever you listen to podcasts for new episodes every other Monday, and get transcripts via email by subscribing here.
Transcript
Welcome to Rethinking Wellness. I’m your host Christy Harrison, and I’m a registered dietitian, certified intuitive eating counselor, journalist, and author of the books Anti-Diet, which was published in 2019, and The Wellness Trap, which comes out on April 25th of 2023.
I launched this podcast to continue the conversations from the new book, which explores the connections between diet culture and wellness culture; how the wellness space became rife with scams, misinformation, and conspiracy theories; why integrative and functional medicine can inadvertently lead people down a path of disordered eating and other harmful behaviors; how the shortcomings of the conventional healthcare system make so many of us vulnerable to false promises—and how to break free from all that so that you can find your own true well-being.
On this show, you’ll hear from people who’ve learned to navigate this tricky landscape, including scholars of wellness culture, experts on health misinformation and media literacy, critics of social media and the attention economy, and everyday people who’ve fallen into the wellness trap and begun to find their way out—including me, someone who lives with multiple chronic conditions that often get blamed on food and lifestyle choices, but whose efforts to heal myself “naturally” ultimately caused way more problems than they solved.
Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts for new episodes every other Monday, and get transcripts via email by visiting rethinkingwellness.substack.com.
