Toxic Diet Culture & Body Liberation with Chrissy King
Going Mental with Eileen Kelly
Eileen Kelly
4.8 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Chrissy King is a writer, speaker, strength coach, and educator with a passion for creating a diverse and inclusive wellness industry. She holds workshops on body liberation, anti-racism , diversity, equity, and inclusion for wellness professionals. She and Eileen discuss the lies the wellness industry sells us, what insecurities they prey upon, diet culture's racist origins, what we can do to help ourselves and others, and how we're all victims of a toxic system.
Chrissy's debut book, The Body Liberation Project, comes out on March 14, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to Going Mental. This is your host, |
| 0:06.5 | Eileen Kelly. I'm interested in the things many of us face, |
| 0:10.4 | but don't always talk about. On the show, not only will I be sharing more about my own |
| 0:14.9 | anxiety as in depression but I'm also going to be talking to a wide range of guests about their |
| 0:19.6 | own mental health journeys along with professionals we're going to help educate you and |
| 0:23.8 | me on the ins and outs of mental illness. Can't wait for you to hear what's in store. On today's episode I'm joined by Chrissy King. She is a writer-speaker strength |
| 0:38.4 | coach and educator. She holds workshops on body liberation, anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion for wellness professionals. |
| 0:48.0 | So eight years ago, Chrissy decided to join a gym like so many of us, so she could lose weight with her only real goal to get skinny. |
| 0:56.6 | This led her down a destructive path of obsessing over her body yo-yo dieting |
| 1:01.2 | and trying every new fad diet plan that came on the market. |
| 1:05.0 | Her debut book, The Body Liberation Project, comes out on March 14th, 2023, |
| 1:11.0 | anywhere you buy your books. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, welcome to the show. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh my gosh, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:16.5 | It's so nice to meet you. |
| 1:19.2 | Can we start off by you introducing yourself, please? |
| 1:21.8 | Yeah, my name is Chrissy King. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm originally from Wisconsin. |
| 1:24.6 | I live in Brooklyn. |
| 1:25.4 | I've been here for about three years now. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm a writer, author, speaker, educator, I have a background in the fitness industry. You used to be a coach and a trainer and now |
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