Food Psych #258: Healing From Scarcity and Deprivation and Finding Fat Freedom with Tiana Dodson
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#258: Healing From Scarcity and Deprivation and Finding Fat Freedom with Tiana Dodson
Introduction & Guest Bio:
Body-liberation coach Tiana Dodson joins us to discuss how scarcity from poverty and her mother’s dieting affected her relationship with food, how she eventually began accepting her fatness and healing from disordered eating, her journey from health coach to body-liberation coach, body partnership as an alternative to body love, the four-step framework of her Fat Freedom Foundation program, and so much more. Plus, in Ask Food Psych, Christy answers a listener question about whether being a foodie and former chef is compatible with intuitive eating.
Tiana Dodson is a fat Body Liberation Coach who’s out to destroy the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy, lovable, or worthy. Through her work with the Fat Freedom Foundation program, she guides people feminine-of-center to reconnect with their bodies, destigmatize fatness, and learn about the harms of health being a measure of worth while finding how they can live their best fat lives. Find her online at TianaDodson.com.
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We Discuss:
How scarcity from poverty and her mother’s dieting affected her relationship with food as a child
How children can be influenced by their parents’ dieting, even when comments are not explicitly made toward them
Tiana’s experiences being bullied by other children
The different ways in which Tiana felt othered
Her experiences attending a traditionally Black university as a biracial person
The feelings of shame that often accompany weight regain after unintentional weight loss
Her experiences with dieting and disordered eating
How she began accepting her fatness
What she learned from working with a raw-vegan health coach
The dissonance she felt as a fat person training to become a health coach
How she learned about Health At Every Size®
Her search for her brand voice
Why she embraced the identity of body-liberation coach
The four-step framework of her program, Fat Freedom Foundation
Why body love may not be the goal for everyone, and why Tiana teaches body partnership instead
Resources Mentioned
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My online course, Intuitive Eating Fundamentals
My book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
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Health At Every Size by Dr. Lindo Bacon (Bookshop) (Amazon) (TW: Healthism. Dr. Bacon no longer stands behind this book and recommends that people read Body Respect that they co-authored with Lucy Aphramor instead)
Christy’s online course for professionals, Master Your Anti-Diet Message
Tiana’s program, Fat Freedom Foundation
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Ask Food Psych
Listener Question:
“How can a person avoid turning intuitive eating into the Hunger-Fullness Diet? What should a person’s eating look like when they’re on vacation? Is it possible to eat intuitively as a foodie and former chef?”—Ann-Elizabeth
We Discuss:
Signs of lingering diet mentality
Eating while on vacation
Satisfaction as the “hub” of intuitive eating
Why it’s important to eat enough
Intuitive eating in food insecurity
Intuitive eating as a foodie and/or former chef
Reframing the principles of intuitive eating
Resources Mentioned: