This week I’m talking to Lily Sloane, MFT, a San Francisco-based psychotherapist with a background in treating eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image issues. She is also a composer/independent audio producer and creator of the podcast A Therapist Walks Into a Bar and the community radio show Radical Advice on BFF.fm. 

Listen to Lily discuss the role the inner critic plays in disordered and the lure of dieting as a means to fixing life’s more complicated problems.

 

Show Highlights

 

• What it was like to grow up in a religious environment focused on health food
• All the compliments that come with weight-loss assume you are doing great
• Working on the inner critic was helpful in healing disordered eating but wasn’t radical enough
• How the inner critic can take over mindful or intuitive eating
• Chronic dieting dovetails with capitalist ideas of always having to be fixing yourself
• Veiling talk about weight in talk about “health”
• The difference between correlation and causation
• How she is open with her clients about her own struggles so they know they are not alone
• Declining getting weighed at the doctor’s office
• One can work on their health without focusing on their weight
• Learning to accept that we go through different seasons of life which will impact how we eat and move
• How loving your body all the time is unrealistic
• The impact of being single on how she eats
• How she has to try to not solve life’s problems by going on a diet
• Popular wellness models such as “clean eating” are very puritanical
• French fries fried in beef drippings are delicious!

Links & Resources

 

• Lily Sloane, MFT Therapy Website
• Radical Advice on BFF.fm
• Ellyn Satter’s “What Is Normal Eating”
• “Eat Up” by Ruby Tandoh