58 min
Dismantling Fatphobia with Ragen Chastain Recovery Bites
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- Mental Health
In this episode, I am joined by Ragen Chastain. Ragen is a speaker, writer, and thought leader in the fields of Body Image, Health at Every Size, Medical Weight Stigma, Weight Stigma in Eating Disorders Treatment, and Corporate Wellness. Ragen's depth and breadth of knowledge come from a combination of her personal story of overcoming an eating disorder, her experience as a national dance champion and marathoner, and her training as an ACE Certified Health Coach, Functional Training Specialist, and researcher. Author of the blog danceswithfat.org, the book Fat: The Owner's Manual, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, and documentary film. Her ability to combine humor with hard facts in ways that educate, motivate, and entertain have makes her a sought-after speaker on the collegiate, conference, and corporate circuits.
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
• Ragen’s background including some of the weight stigma she has experienced in her life.
• Navigating in a society designed to exclude, shame and oppress people on the basis of shared characteristics or identities.
• Medical weight stigma in regards to diagnosis, care, and treatment options.
• Nurturing the parts of self that question authority and challenge the narrative.
• The ways in which diet culture, dieting, and fatphobia perpetuate eating disorders and can make full recovery feel impossible.
• The value and need for trust between client and provider.
• How Ragen’s activism aims to dismantle diet culture and fatphobia in the community so that people of every size have equal opportunity to fully recover.
• Strategies one can use to stand up for themself and advocate for equal healthcare and how Ragen has educated health practitioners.
• The dangers of weight-loss interventions and weight loss surgery.
• Challenging the beliefs that add to the oppression of fat people and moving into thoughts and actions that support body liberation for those of all sizes.
In this episode, I am joined by Ragen Chastain. Ragen is a speaker, writer, and thought leader in the fields of Body Image, Health at Every Size, Medical Weight Stigma, Weight Stigma in Eating Disorders Treatment, and Corporate Wellness. Ragen's depth and breadth of knowledge come from a combination of her personal story of overcoming an eating disorder, her experience as a national dance champion and marathoner, and her training as an ACE Certified Health Coach, Functional Training Specialist, and researcher. Author of the blog danceswithfat.org, the book Fat: The Owner's Manual, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, and documentary film. Her ability to combine humor with hard facts in ways that educate, motivate, and entertain have makes her a sought-after speaker on the collegiate, conference, and corporate circuits.
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
• Ragen’s background including some of the weight stigma she has experienced in her life.
• Navigating in a society designed to exclude, shame and oppress people on the basis of shared characteristics or identities.
• Medical weight stigma in regards to diagnosis, care, and treatment options.
• Nurturing the parts of self that question authority and challenge the narrative.
• The ways in which diet culture, dieting, and fatphobia perpetuate eating disorders and can make full recovery feel impossible.
• The value and need for trust between client and provider.
• How Ragen’s activism aims to dismantle diet culture and fatphobia in the community so that people of every size have equal opportunity to fully recover.
• Strategies one can use to stand up for themself and advocate for equal healthcare and how Ragen has educated health practitioners.
• The dangers of weight-loss interventions and weight loss surgery.
• Challenging the beliefs that add to the oppression of fat people and moving into thoughts and actions that support body liberation for those of all sizes.
58 min