180 What We Get Wrong About Eating (It’s Not Willpower)

About this episode

Kaitie Entrikin interviews Jessica Setnick about the misconceptions surrounding eating, diet culture, and the importance of self-acceptance in healing.

What up, Beasts. Welcome back to the show! In this episode, I sit down with eating disorder dietitian, educator, and advocate Jessica Setnick for a conversation that cuts straight through food shame, diet culture nonsense, and the idea that you have to be “sick enough” to deserve help. We talk about how disordered eating is often normalized or even admired, why emotional eating is a very human coping tool, and how shame keeps people stuck far longer than food ever does. Jessica shares how her background in anthropology shaped the way she understands eating behavior, why one-size-fits-all nutrition advice causes real harm, and what happens when influencers without credentials try to sell certainty in bodies they do not understand. We also dig into her concept of “healing your inner eater,” which invites curiosity over judgment and helps untangle inherited food rules that were never actually yours to carry. This conversation is a powerful reminder that food is not a moral issue, bodies are not problems to be fixed, and healing begins when we stop shaming ourselves for being human. As always, I hope something lands with you today. I hope something you hear tugs at your heart strings…

People in this episode

Host: Kaitie Entrikin

Guest: Jessica Setnick

Topics covered

• eating disorders
• diet culture
• emotional eating
• food shame
• nutrition advice
• healing
• self-acceptance

Keywords

• eating disorders
• diet culture
• emotional eating
• food shame
• nutrition advice
• healing
• self-acceptance

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