Body Image / Body Dissatisfaction / Anti-diet work
Our therapists at Intuitive Counseling are sick and tired of our world being so caught up in and focused on diet culture and chasing the societal appearance ideal. Let us support you on navigating, once and for all, the end of finding the next “Monday morning diet.”
We consider ourselves shepherds in spreading the 10 Principles of Intuitive Eating written by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDS-S, FAND, and honoring and supporting the work of Dr. Lindo Bacon, author of Health at Every Size. The Health at Every Size or HAES is an approach to public health which seeks to downplay weight loss as a healthy goal and reduce stigma towards people in larger bodies.
As therapists with experience treating and studying eating disorders, we understand that shaming and instilling guilt related to what someone eats only causes more eating problems! Eating problems then trigger body dissatisfaction and negatively impact mental and physical health.
Here are some of our favorite authors, bloggers, therapists and dieticians who are publicly helping shepard our world into an anti-diet-driven force.
Instagram Influencers
- chr1styharrison
- Virgietovar
- GlennonDoyle
- recoverywarriors
- diets_dont_work_haes
- stephdodier
- dietitiananna
- Ashley Bennet bodyimage_therapist
- Ally Rye @tallyrye
Websites/misc.
- Isabel Foxen Duke: Stop Fighting Food
- The Body is Not an Apology: Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Every Body
- Dr. Jennifer Guadiani
- Let’s Queer Things Up!
- Virgie Tovar
- National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA)
Podcasts
- Body Kindness – Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN
- Maintenance Phase – Aubrey Gordon
- Mary’s Cup of Tea: The Self Love Podcast – Mary Jelkovski
- Rethinking Wellness – Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
- We Can Do Hard Things – Glennon Doyle
Books
- “Anti-Diet” and “Wellness Trap”– Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
- “Body Kindness”– Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN
- “Body Respect” and “Health at Every Size”– Lindo Bacon, Ph.D.
- “Fearing the Black Body”– Sabrina Strings, Ph.D.
- “How to Raise an Intuitive Eater”– Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN & Amee Severson, MPP-D, RDN
- “Intuitive Eating”– Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S & Elyse Resch MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, FAND
- “You Better Be Lightening”– Andrea Gibson
- “The Body is Not An Apology” and “Celebrate your Body (and Its Changes Too!)” Sonya Renee Taylor
- “The Gift of Self Love” – Mary Jelkovski
