125: Weight Stigma, Medical Backlash and Social Justice – Conversation with Stephanie Dodier

The Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross Show: Binge Eating Disorder, Stress Eating, Emotional Eating, Food Addiction

Stephanie Dodier of “Going Beyond the Food” has been a guest on my podcast many times and our conversations have always been honest and cover a variety of topics. Today, we talked about the toxicity that exists in the world of eating disorders, black and white thinking, backlash from the medical profession, what it means to really do your own trauma work and how social justice is an important part of healing our relationship with food and our bodies.

In this episode you will learn:

1. Why I call trauma work, the new “healthism”
2. How black and white thinking has caused an us vs. them mentality in the work with people with food addiction, emotional eating and binge eating.
3. Why the desperation for a thinner body continues to be paired with being happy and being healthy.