Episode 84: Dr. Lara Zibarras talks diet culture, wellness culture, and its insidious ways

Welcome to Episode 84, Navigators! Today, Catherine and Francis dive deep into diet culture, wellness culture, and all the other names of this insidious culture with Dr. Lara Zibarras, a psychologist and food freedom coach, specializing in mindset and behavior change. Lara, who herself is recovered from an eating disorder, shares her experience with orthorexia after her first efforts in recovery, and how diet culture – often guised as wellness culture or other diets like Noom or WW – is terrific at manipulating people back into the throws of disordered eating. As Dr. Zibarrass says, “it can be so alluring”. Please join us as we unpack an area in our society which impacts everyone, often in unconscious or subvert ways, and how best to change our mindsets around food and our bodies.

CW: diet talk*, body image talk, eating disorder behaviors

*this episode goes into great detail about specific diets and their ill effects, so please note that if talking about dieting is challenging, this may not be the best episode to dive into.