Rethinking Wellness

Weight-inclusive medical doctor Mónica Peralta joins us to discuss weight stigma in medicine, her shift from sharing her “weight-loss journey” on social media to specializing in weight-inclusive care, and her experiences as both a physician and a higher-weight patient. In a deeper dive for paid subscribers, we get into GLP-1s and eating disorders, the importance of support when discontinuing GLP-1s, and why she’s hopeful that hype about the drugs won’t last forever.    

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More from Christy:

• Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore. 
• If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
• Subscribe on Substack for full interviews and more! Support the podcast by becoming a paid subscriber, and unlock great perks like extended interviews, subscriber-only Q&As and essays, monthly office hours to ask me your questions, news roundups, commenting privileges, and a place to connect with other listeners.

Sociologist and journalist Kathryn Jezer-Morton, author of the new book THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE, joins us to discuss how social media affects the way we make sense of our lives, how the pressure to perform emotional wellness online affects our *actual* emotional well-being, how credentialed providers with nuanced messages can get heard in this media environment, and more. In a deeper dive for paid subscribers, we get into how to change your relationship with social media, why “flat stories” are sometimes more helpful than transformative ones, and where to share stories about chronic illness, disability, and eating disorders without the pressure to perform. 

To hear the full episode including the deep dive, upgrade to paid at rethinkingwellness.substack.com. You’ll also get other great perks like monthly Office Hours, subscriber-only Q&As and essays, commenting privileges, and more!

More from Christy:

• Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore. 
• If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
• Subscribe on Substack for full interviews and more! Support the podcast by becoming a paid subscriber, and unlock great perks like extended interviews, subscriber-only Q&As and essays, monthly office hours to ask me your questions, news roundups, commenting privileges, and a place to connect with other listeners.

Christy answers an audience question about a new study that claims to show food processing influences metabolism and brain activity.

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More from Christy: 

Books: 

• Anti-Diet
• The Wellness Trap
• The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook

Courses:

• Intuitive Eating Fundamentals
• Intro to Intuitive Eating

Christy answers an audience question about food-sensitivity tests, SIBO, probiotics, elimination diets, and how to navigate digestive issues in disordered eating without falling into wellness traps.

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Get full show notes and references on Substack.

More from Christy: 

Books: 

• Anti-Diet
• The Wellness Trap
• The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook

Courses:

• Intuitive Eating Fundamentals
• Intro to Intuitive Eating

Body-image therapist Zoe Bisbing joins us to discuss why body image is such a challenging part of disordered-eating recovery, how to deal with our body-focused inner critics, and why many people have such visceral reactions to public figures losing weight. In a deeper dive for paid subscribers, we discuss why setting limits with food won’t automatically give your kid an eating disorder, which limits are developmentally appropriate, and how parents who’ve had our own histories of disordered eating can avoid becoming overly permissive.   

To hear the full episode including the deep dive, upgrade to paid at rethinkingwellness.substack.com. 

More from Christy:

• Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore. 
• If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
• Subscribe on Substack for full interviews and more! Support the podcast by becoming a paid subscriber, and unlock great perks like extended interviews, subscriber-only Q&As, full access to our archives, commenting privileges, and a place to connect with other listeners.

Christy discusses GLP-1s and longevity—the discourse, the hype, where it comes from, and what the science really says.

The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first part here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the whole thing—plus get other great perks like monthly Office Hours, subscriber-only Q&As, extended interviews, and more!

Get full show notes and references on Substack.

More from Christy: 

Books: 

• Anti-Diet
• The Wellness Trap
• The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook

Courses:

• Intuitive Eating Fundamentals
• Intro to Intuitive Eating

Registered dietitian Aaron Flores joins us to discuss why Andrew Huberman and other biohacking wellness bros have such massive appeal, and how their rhetoric can lead to disordered eating and body-image distress. In a deeper dive for paid subscribers, we get into how to talk to partners or loved ones who’ve come under the sway of bro-wellness culture—and how to set boundaries when their diet/fitness talk challenges our recovery from disordered eating. We also get vulnerable about mortality, grief, and why it’s so hard to confront aging and death head-on, and Christy shares an unexpected response to a past interview on the pod.

To hear the full episode including the deep dive, upgrade to paid at rethinkingwellness.substack.com. 

More from Christy:

• Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore. 
• If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.
• Subscribe on Substack for full interviews and more! Support the podcast by becoming a paid subscriber, and unlock great perks like extended interviews, subscriber-only Q&As and essays, monthly office hours to ask your questions, commenting privileges, and a place to connect with other listeners.

Christy answers an audience question about whether you need an anti-inflammatory diet, or other dietary changes, for migraines. 

The full version of this episode is for paid subscribers. Listen to the first part here, and sign up for a paid subscription to hear the whole thing!

Get full show notes and references on Substack.

More from Christy: 

Books: 

• Anti-Diet
• The Wellness Trap
• The Emotional Eating, Chronic Dieting, Binge Eating & Body Image Workbook

Courses:

• Intuitive Eating Fundamentals
• Intro to Intuitive Eating

Nutritionist Abbie Attwood joins us to discuss how dealing with multiple autoimmune chronic illnesses led her down a path of dubious diagnoses and disordered eating, and how she ultimately found healing. We get into how disordered eating can trigger and aggravate chronic conditions, why she believed she had “adrenal fatigue” and “leaky gut,” and the role of obsession and OCD in orthorexia. We also talk about why it’s so easy to have your identity get wrapped up in disordered eating and chronic illness, how wellness culture preys on grief over physical limitations, the importance of self-compassion and how Abbie and Christy practice it, the prevalence of heightened sensitivity in IBS and other chronic conditions, how wellness-culture rabbit holes can lead to worsening symptoms, and the process of coming back to conventional medicine after a foray into the alt-med world. This episode was originally published in February 2025.

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Abbie Attwood (she/her) is an anti-diet, weight-inclusive provider with a masters in clinical nutrition. She is the owner of Abbie Attwood Wellness, providing both individual and group virtual nutrition therapy and body image coaching. She is also the host of the Full Plate Podcast and writes the accompanying newsletter.

Abbie has lived experience with an eating disorder, which happened at the intersection of competitive running, OCD, and several chronic illnesses—all of which have made her especially passionate about working with those who don’t always see themselves in the traditional picture of disordered eating.

She works with clients around the globe, supporting them in healing from disordered eating, chronic dieting, body shame, and compulsive exercising to move into a kind and respectful relationship with their body. Abbie’s approach centers on self-compassion, social justice, and body liberation.

She splits time between Maine and the Bay Area with her husband and their two quirky rescue pups. She’s a lover of breakfast, books, the ocean, and all the ice cream. Learn more about her work at abbieattwoodwellness.com.

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Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold! Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore.

If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.

Christy answers an audience question about the diets you *don’t* need to try in (peri)menopause—and ways to get your loved ones to stop talking about them.

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Christy's second book, The Wellness Trap, is available wherever books are sold. Order it here, or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore. 

If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course.