Season 2, Episode 4 with Dr. Rachel Millner
Opting Kids Out Of Diet Culture
- Dr. Rachel Millner
Show Notes
Dr. Rachel Millner (she/her/hers) spends most of her day talking to folks who are struggling with eating disorders and who want to heal their relationship with food and body. She’s taking us through how to handle it when our kids are deeply influenced by diet culture and anti-fat bias using impactful conversations and opting out.
Rachel Millner, Psy.D. is a psychologist and activist in private practice in PA. Rachel has been working with those with eating disorders, disordered eating, and those wanting to heal their relationship with food and body since 2005. Rachel is a fat positive provider and works from a Health at Every Size(r) and Body Trust(r) framework. In addition to her clinical work, Rachel frequently gives talks on topics such as eating disorders in higher weight people and providing fat positive therapy. Rachel has been interviewed for numerous publications about eating disorders and has been interviewed on many podcasts about her work. Rachel also supervises therapists wanting to learn how to provide HAES therapy. Rachel identifies as a fat activist and works to counter anti-fat bias in the culture and eating disorder communities.
Connect with Rachel on her website and Instagram.
Here are the HAES Health Sheets and the Burnout book referenced.
Sophia reads The How and the Why by Robin Reagler.
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