How Therapists Reinforce Unworthiness When They Support Intentional Weight Loss

In How Therapists Reinforce Unworthiness When They Support Intentional Weight Loss, Allison Puryear, talks specifically to therapists about supporting clients who come wanting to lose weight.

In How Therapists Reinforce Unworthiness When They Support Intentional Weight Loss, Allison also talks about:

What brought her to this work
Are eating disorder patients hard to work with?
Trauma and eating disorders
Why this episode is specifically for therapists
What’s wrong with supporting clients with intentional weight loss?
We are a field based on science, until it comes to weight loss
Weight stigma and fatness
Feeling like a personal failure
90% of diets fail
Socio economic inequalities and intentional weight loss
What gets missed when we focus on client’s weight?
Shame and weight loss
Eating disorders work!
Thin privilege and being a therapist
What is fat phobia?
Cheryl Fuller on fat phobia
Fat, fat, fat, fat, fat – Allison says fat about a million times 😉
Neutralising fat phobia
Discrimination against fat people
Why we use quotation marks when we talk about “obesity”
Do you want to contribute to the development of an eating disorder?
Deprivation and restriction
There is a whole other world out there when we stop dieting
What is the work that therapists need to do?
Intuitive eating
Demonizing foods
Recommended books: Intuitive eating, Anti-Diet, Health At Every Size, Body Respect
Health at Every Size
Mourning the loss of being thin
Eating disorder training
Refer out if necessary
Find a therapist who will not support intentional weight loss
Invisalign and disordered eating