229: Reykjavik’s Human Rights Policy, Weight Stigma and Eating Disorder Recovery with Sigrún Daníelsdóttir

This week's guest on the podcast is Sigrún Daníelsdóttir.

Sigrún is a clinical psychologist and for most of her career has worked with children and adolescents with eating and body image problems, both within treatment and prevention settings. Her current position is as project manager for mental health promotion at the Directorate of Health in Iceland.

Sigrun started the Body Respect movement in Iceland, which focuses on promoting body satisfaction and respect for body diversity through various forms of social activism and advocacy. She is the organizer of various awareness-raising events, like the annual celebration of International No Diet Day in Iceland

She is also the co-founder and former president of the Icelandic Association for Body Respect and the Icelandic Eating Disorders Association. And because of Sigrun’s activisim, following the Weight Stigma Conference in Reykjavik in 2015, the City of Reykjavik updated their human rights policy to include weight as a protected category.

As part of the episode we talk about her eating disorder and recovery from it, weight stigma and weight discrimination and how, because of Sigrun’s activism work, the City of Reykjavik updated their human rights policy to include weight as a protected category.