Chrissy King on Shrinking vs. Strength

This episode starts with 30 minutes of anti-racism resources, and then a 30 minute chat with Chrissy King back in March 2020.

Chrissy is a writer, speaker, and fitness coach, and is currently enrolling Anti-Racism Crash Courses for Fitness and Wellness Professionals on July 15th, 16th, and 17th (all separate events!). We don't address racism in our conversation, the conversation was back in March, and focused on how she healed her relationship with fitness and food, but please join me in supporting her current anti-racist educational content.

Find Chrissy's Anti-Racism Crash Course

Visit Chrissy's Website

Follow Chrissy's Instagram

Some Anti-Racist Thoughts and Resources

During the first 30 minutes of this episode, the long "intro" before my conversation with Chrissy, I share some very introductory content on Anti-Racism, and share resources, accounts, and books to buy and read. All of the content I talk about is linked below in the show notes, and more (I added some more resources to the links below that I didn't know to mention when I recorded the episode!)

Show Notes:

2:06 Find Chrissy's Anti-Racist Crash Course

5:25 My twitter thread on “I’m Not Racist!” vs. Anti-Racism 

“You never arrive at allyship, you must continue to practice allyship” -@itsjacksonbbz

9:15 Trauma

Racism is a re-occurring trauma. Trauma requires safety to heal from.

Books on Trauma:

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies 

The Body Keeps the Score 

Waking the Tiger 

11:52 My break from social media: Why I took it and what it was like.

20:20 Resources:

Sabrina Strings Book: Fearing the Black Body, to learn how diet culture and white supremacy are very connected and always have been.

Sabrina Strings on Christy Harrison’s podcast Food Psych 

* The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Nap Ministry instagram talks about rest as a form of resistance, specifically geared towards black people and centuries of chronic exhaustion

#AmplifyMelanatedVoices was started by:

<a style="font-family: -apple-system,