Podcasts Health & Fitness Nutrition Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison #46: Conquering Body Shame and Weight Obsession with Harriet Brown, Author of "Body of Truth"

#46: Conquering Body Shame and Weight Obsession with Harriet Brown, Author of "Body of Truth"

Published: Nov. 3, 2015, 5 a.m.

Author Harriet Brown (Body of Truth) discusses how she overcame her longtime struggles with body shame and weight stigma, how her daughter's anorexia changed her relationship with\xa0food, why she became a vocal proponent of the Health At Every Size\xae movement, how to fight back against diet culture,\xa0and lots more.

Harriet Brown is a professor of magazine journalism at the\xa0S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications\xa0and has nearly 30 years of experience as a writer and editor. She's worked at magazines including\xa0Redbook\xa0and\xa0New York Woman, and writes for many national publications including\xa0The New York Times Magazine,\xa0O Magazine,\xa0Vogue,\xa0Psychology Today,\xa0Prevention, and\xa0Parenting.\xa0

Her most recent book,\xa0Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It, has been hailed as "a must-read for anyone ready to start shaking this fat = bad, thin = good obsession" (Bustle).\xa0Her previous book,\xa0Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia,\xa0won a "Books for a Better Life" award in 2011. Brown also edited the anthology\xa0Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image. Find her online at\xa0HarrietBrown.com.

To learn more about Food Psych and our guest, visit\xa0christyharrison.com/foodpsych

Ready to make peace with food? Join Christy's\xa0intuitive eating online course!\xa0

How healthy is your relationship with food? Take the quiz and get free resources at\xa0christyharrison.com/quiz!