Ep 75 with Fiona Sutherland & Christy Harrison
Namaste Meets WTF! with Fiona Sutherland & Christy Harrison
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It was so much fun - and a little anxiety provoking - to have the tables turned on me and be hosted by the wonderful, dual podcast guest and author of Anti Diet, Christy Harrison to talk about my newly released book, Vitamin A to Z – Your BS-free guide to wellbeing. We talk about how the book came to fruition, my intention and hope for her book, then we delve more into some of the chapters to include Vitamin M = Mindfulness, Vitamin H = Health (redefined) and Vitamin V = Values.
Here Fi and Christy speak about:
How the Vitamin A-Z book came to be and Fi’s thought behind the title and the organisation of content.
Juggling all the things; the reality of writing a book during COVID and pulling from the Vitamin A-Z qualities to make it through.
Vitamin M = Mindfulness; how mindfulness & awareness (Vitamin A) intersect and how mindfulness is woven throughout the book and within many of the addressed qualities.
Fi shares her intention for her book; how she hopes it may feel and the space she hopes it will offer readers.
The Stages of Change Transtheoretical Model; Fi steps us through the model, how it has been considered within the book and what the stages could possibly look and feel like for us and our clients.
Vitamin H = Health (Redefined); how the pursuit of ‘health’, as it is currently defined, can be more harmful than helpful and how health (redefined) can help us reimagine and reassess our lives, our time, and our values.
Vitamin V = Values;
How disentangling ourselves from the society-imposed values can help us access our true wisdom and true heart to uncover our intrinsic values (and more on the activity within the book).
The importance of being witnessed, seen and heard; how there are no right or wrong values - all values are good enough.
How the language of food, eating and body language allows us such an interesting view into our inner worlds.
As mentioned in the podcast:
Vitamin A to Z – Your BS-free guide to wellbeing, by Fiona Sutherland, RD, The Mindful Dietitian
ANTI-DIET; Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD.
Stages of Change Transtheoretical Model by Prochaska and Diclemente
Radical Belonging; How to Survive and Thrive in an unjust world (while transforming it for the better), by Lindo Bacon, PhD.
More about Christy:
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CDN is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of the book Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (Little, Brown Spark 2019). She offers online courses and private intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. Since 2013 Christy has hosted Food Psych, a weekly podcast exploring people’s relationships with food and paths to body liberation. It is now one of Apple’s top 100 health podcasts, reaching tens of thousands of listeners worldwide each week.
Christy began her career in 2003 as a journalist covering food, nutrition, and health, and she’s written for publications including The New York Times, SELF, BuzzFeed, WIRED, Refinery29, Gourmet, Slate, The Food Network, and many others. Learn more about Christy and her work at christyharrison.com.
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