318. Funk’tional Nutrition: How Belonging, Not Willpower, Shapes Your Eating

About this episode

Ali Shapiro discusses how concepts of belonging and safety influence eating habits, challenging traditional diet culture and willpower narratives.

Diet culture, anti-diet rhetoric, and functional medicine all live in a messy middle ground. Our culture trains us to outsource authority, chase gold stars, and equate thinness with worth. We're taught to live by someone else's food rules, health rules, weight rules. So if you're still struggling to figure food out, it's not a failure of discipline. It's a misunderstanding of safety and belonging. In this episode of Insatiable, I join Erin Holt on The Funk'tional Nutritionist podcast to talk ...

People in this episode

Host: Ali Shapiro

Guest: Erin Holt

Topics covered

• diet culture
• functional medicine
• belonging
• eating habits
• mental health

Keywords

• diet culture
• functional nutrition
• belonging
• eating
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Funk'tional Nutritionist

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