Quick Resources: Diet Culture & Romantic Relationships

» Food Psych #185: How Diet Culture Hurts Your Relationships

Health At Every Size® life coach Kristina Bruce joins us to discuss how diet culture can affect relationships, how to find self-trust and self-acceptance in recovering from disordered eating, how diet culture shows up in spiritual communities, why health and well-being is about so much more than eating and exercise, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about weight stigma in the military.

» How to eat intuitively when your person doesn’t get it

For most of us, there is a point of struggle when we make such a huge change to our lifestyle. Navigating relationships and protecting our newfound freedom from the bondage of diet culture becomes a challenge.

It is absolutely possible to sustain the changes you have made for yourself and keep a healthy relationship while your person is still participating in diet culture. (Yes, even if your relationship was built on the the foundation of diet culture like my marriage was!)

» How to talk to your spouse/significant other about intuitive eating

If you are at a place where you’ve struggled quietly with an eating disorder or disordered eating, let me first say that I see you. That is so hard. Pursing food freedom through self-care, intuitive eating and stress management is so worth it. And still hard. Explaining this process to another person can make it even harder. Here’s what I’d (humbly) suggest.