Healing from Dubious Diagnoses, Disordered Eating, and Overwork with Kirsten Powers
About this episode
Kirsten Powers discusses her experiences with chronic fatigue, dubious diagnoses, and the impact of disordered eating on her life.
New York Times bestselling author and former CNN political analyst Kirsten Powers joins us to discuss her history of chronic fatigue and her experience with dubious diagnoses and wild wellness treatments. She also shares what she discovered about the true causes of her issues, how disordered eating helped mask and exacerbate her symptoms, how she’s rethought her relationship with work in general (and her own past work in particular), her viral post “ The way we live in the United States is not normal ,” her decision to move to Italy, and more. This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness . Kirsten Powers is a New York Times bestselling author and writes the bestselling Substack newsletter Changing the Channel . Kirsten served as a CNN senior political analyst for seven years, providing on-air analysis for major political and cultural events. The Columbia Journalism Review called her "an outspoken liberal journalist" in a sea of opposition at Fox News, where she previously served as a political analyst. She was a columnist for USA Today for more than a decade and, before that, for the Daily Beast and the New York Post. More from Christy: Check out…
People in this episode
Host: Christy Harrison
Guest: Kirsten Powers
Topics covered
- disordered eating
- chronic fatigue
- wellness treatments
- work-life balance
- personal transformation
Keywords
- chronic fatigue
- disordered eating
- wellness
- work-life balance
- Kirsten Powers
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CNN, Columbia Journalism Review, USA Today, Daily Beast, New York Post
Books & works: Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook
Places: United States, Italy
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