“The Trickiest Part Of All Is When I Felt it Actually Worked” — Recovering from Diet and Wellness Culture with Sarah-Jane Garcia
About this episode
Sarah-Jane Garcia discusses her journey from wellness culture to intuitive eating and the impact of parenting on her perspective.
Pharmacist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor Sarah-Jane Garcia joins us to discuss how smart people get caught up in wellness culture. She shares her path from the realities of being a pharmacist experimenting with elimination diets to how getting certified in integrative medicine exacerbated her orthorexia to why becoming a parent finally opened her eyes to the fear-mongering happening in wellness communities. Behind the paywall, Christy and Sarah-Jane discuss what it actually took for Sarah-Jane to break free from diet culture, as well as how she returned to conventional medicine through Intuitive Eating. This episode is cross-posted from our other podcast, Rethinking Wellness . Sarah-Jane Garcia is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor with personal experience navigating binge eating, restriction, and obsessive clean eating. Discovering Intuitive Eating freed her from intense struggle with food—and inspired her to become a counselor, so she could help other women do the same. Sarah-Jane offers 1:1 coaching as well as a 12-week group program focused on the Principles of Intuitive Eating. She’s also a Specialty Pharmacist, and her approach blends science, psychology, and…
People in this episode
Host: Christy Harrison
Guest: Sarah-Jane Garcia
Topics covered
- diet culture
- intuitive eating
- wellness culture
- orthorexia
- parenting
- coaching
Keywords
- diet culture
- intuitive eating
- wellness culture
- orthorexia
- coaching
- binge eating
- restriction
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Rethinking Wellness
Books & works: Anti-Diet, The Wellness Trap, The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook
More episodes of Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
- 2 Weird Food Rules I Don’t Follow Anymore (and 4 Other Principles I Try to Live By)
- Parenting for Positive Body Image with Charlotte Markey, PhD
- Healing from Dubious Diagnoses, Disordered Eating, and Overwork with Kirsten Powers
- [Repost] The Hidden Risks of Weight-Loss Drugs: Behind the GLP-1 Hype with Ragen Chastain
- Can a Diet Really Help Solve Your Period Problems?
- Anxiety Dieting, Disordered Eating, and the Crunchy-Granola-to-Wellness Pipeline with Leah Kern
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison podcast page.