104. How Anti-Diet Culture Became Like Diet Culture with Jessica Brown

There is no doubt that I disagree with diet culture. But recently I’ve been noticing that a lot of these things that frustrate me with this culture are starting to show up in the anti-diet culture as well. Between the judging, the internal shaming, and the “cult behaviors”, the lines are starting to blur and the cycle we were trying to break has begun to repeat itself. In this episode, I’m talking with Jessica Brown about how anti-diet culture has started to become similar to diet culture. This conversation highlights some of the gray areas that aren’t discussed as often. Jessica Brown has been a clinical nutritionist for over 20 years and is the author of the mind-body book, 'The Loving Diet.' She is a graduate of Stanford University's year-long Applied Compassion Teacher Training Program, where she explored how self-compassion can increase interoceptive awareness in individuals with disordered eating. Currently, she focuses her professional time on facilitating the eight-week self-compassion for disordered eating online groups she created. Her website and social media is The Loving Diet (www.thelovingdiet.com) Over time, the anti-diet culture movement has seen significant changes, with the original values and mission statement giving way to new perspectives and approaches.   Tweetable Quotes "I feel like even people who we really disagree with, we can acknowledge that everyone messes up and that that was not a good journalistic moment." - Jessica Brown "Self-compassion isn't relying on things going your way. It's saying I can be with myself in any state, happy, hurting, confused, scared, and the premise of self-compassion is how would I treat a friend?" - Jessica Brown "At the end of the day, work on your own self-compassion." - Rachelle Heinemann "We're really focusing more on the culture that's been created around all of this phenomenal help that's been really abundant these days." - Rachelle Heinemann “It's sort of like the merging of common sense and looking at the science, which is if you eat a diet that's primarily ultra-processed food, you might run into some problems. But should we say you should never eat it?” - Jessica Brown   Resources https://www.thelovingdiet.com/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thelovingdiet/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLovingDiet  Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheLovingDiet