Behind The Bite

By Cristina CastagniniHealth & Fitness Education

Behind The Bite episodes

June 12, 2025 Ep. 238 If You Hate Photos of Yourself, This Episode is For You With Lindley Ashline
Lindley, a photographer and body liberation activist, discusses her journey combining photography with activism focused on marginalized bodies. She explains how societal messages about bodies are absorbed daily and shape our emotional reactions to photos of ourselves. The episode delves into the historical roots of body image issues, linking them to racism and the development of Western beauty standards. Lindley highlights how media and culture reinforce these standards and the ongoing process of unlearning negative body image. She encourages understanding the origins of these feelings to make conscious choices about self-acceptance.
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44 min
June 05, 2025 Ep. 237 Ending Emotional Outsourcing: How to Stop People-Pleasing and Build Secure, Fulfilling Relationships with Béa Albina
In this insightful episode, Béa joins the show to discuss her journey from primary care and functional medicine to focusing on the psychology and nervous system aspects of health. The conversation explores the deep connections between mind, body, trauma, and the development of codependency, perfectionism, and people-pleasing habits.
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44 min
May 29, 2025 Ep. 236 Think Joy Is Just a Feeling? It’s Not. Here’s What It Really Is—with JOYELY Founder Sheryl Lynn
In this episode, Sheryl Lynn shares her personal journey from trauma, dysfunction, and searching for joy to founding Joyely, a lifestyle brand and community centered around the concept of joy intelligence. She discusses how joy is often misunderstood, the science behind it, and how it differs from happiness. Sheryl explains the core elements needed to prioritize joy—safety, presence, and joy itself—and introduces the concept of joy as a skill rather than just an emotion.
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30 min
May 22, 2025 Ep. 235 Using the Enneagram to Understand Your Relationship with Food and Body: With Becca Moravec
In this episode, therapist Becca shares her personal and professional journey from being immersed in diet culture to discovering intuitive eating and the Health at Every Size approach. She discusses the moment she realized she had an eating disorder, how working with a coach transformed her perspective, and her ongoing process of recovery. Becca and host Cristina explore the myths around eating disorder recovery, emphasizing that while triggers can reappear, long-term healing is possible. The conversation also delves into how personality frameworks like the Enneagram can help individuals understand their motivations and patterns related to disordered eating, offering additional tools for self-compassion and growth.
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43 min
May 15, 2025 Ep. 234 Julia Trehane's Personal Journey of Flying into Freedom
This episode features a deeply personal and candid conversation with Julia Trehane, an eating disorder recovery coach, podcast host, and speaker. Julia shares her journey through 40 years of battling anorexia nervosa, orthorexia, and exercise addiction, ultimately achieving full recovery and dedicating her life to helping others find freedom from eating disorders.
Julia recounts her earliest memories of body image struggles beginning at age three, exacerbated by childhood teasing and a difficult home environment. She describes how, at eight years old, she began restricting food as a coping mechanism to avoid negative emotions and attention. Her ability to hide her disorder continued through adolescence, until it was discovered by her school, leading to forced intervention.
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38 min
May 08, 2025 Ep. 233 You Don't Have to Love Your Body to Respect It: Rethinking Body Image in a World Obsessed with Perfection
In this heartfelt episode, Cristina Castagnini explores the complexities of body image and the pressures surrounding self-love and body positivity. She begins by expressing gratitude to listeners for choosing to invest in their healing and self-worth, acknowledging the effort it takes to engage with these important topics.
Cristina challenges the pervasive cultural messages that urge people to “just love yourself” or achieve constant body positivity. She explains that, while well-intentioned, these slogans can create a new kind of pressure-making people feel like they’re failing if they don’t always love how they look. Through a moving client story, Cristina illustrates how the expectation of unwavering self-love is simply another form of perfectionism.
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17 min
May 01, 2025 Ep. 232 - From Doubt to Crown: Overcoming ‘Not Good Enough’ with Ava Manuel
In this inspiring conversation, Dr. Cristina Castagnini speaks with Ava Manuel, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Tribune and Mrs. Enterprise America 2025. They discuss how one conversation and one belief shift changed everything for Ava, reigniting a decades-old dream and launching her on the road to the Mrs. America stage. This episode explores reclaiming joy, breaking up with perfectionism, and finally saying yes to yourself at any age, size, and exactly as you are.
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41 min
April 24, 2025 Ep. 231 - The Link Between OCD and Disordered Eating With Allyson Inez Ford
This episode of "Behind the Bite" explores the overlap between eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Dr. Cristina Castagnini interviews Allyson Ford, a therapist specializing in both disorders with personal experience. Ford shares her journey with orthorexia and anorexia as a teenager, which later led to the realization of underlying OCD tendencies. The discussion covers the similarities between OCD and eating disorders, such as intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, and emphasizes the importance of screening for OCD in eating disorder treatment. Ford and Castagnini delve into examples of OCD and eating disorder behaviors, the role of compulsions, core fears, and the amount of time these thoughts and behaviors consume. The episode aims to shed light on the often-overlooked connection between eating disorders and OCD, providing insights and potential "light bulb" moments for listeners who may be questioning whether their behaviors are crossing the line into something more serious.
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36 min
April 17, 2025 Ep. 230 - Anti-Diet ≠ Anti-Health: What Most People Get Wrong With Abbie Attwood
In this episode of Behind the Bite, Dr. Cristina Castagnini is joined by Abbie Attwood, a weight-inclusive nutritionist and host of the Full Plate Podcast. Together, they explore the complexities of disordered eating, recovery, and the cultural forces that shape our relationships with food and body image. Abby shares her deeply personal journey through competitive running, chronic illness, and recovery from disordered eating, offering insights into how diet culture and societal norms perpetuate harmful behaviors.
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48 min
April 10, 2025 Ep. 229 - Feeling Anxious About Summer? This Episode Is for You
In this solo episode, Dr. Cristina Castagnini addresses the anxiety many people feel as summer approaches, particularly regarding body image concerns related to wearing summer clothing. She explores how social media trends and cultural messaging can trigger disordered eating patterns and offers practical strategies for maintaining a healthy relationship with your body during this challenging seasonal transition.
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22 min