I’ve been listening to Christy’s podcasts for over 7 years and recommend her to everyone. She conducts an unparalleled amount of research to be able to present us with accurate data and evidence in accessible ways (mostly—sometimes I have to listen more than once to process the info). And she’s genuinely kind and empathetic! I feel empowered and emboldened with what I’ve learned from her, not least of which is self-acceptance, self-love, and patience. If I could only listen to one podcast for the rest of my life, it would be rethinking wellness or food psych.

I respect needing to sustain oneself and make a living, but this may as well be a paid podcast, for both this and the newsletter because at least each time I’ve tried to listen or read several times over the year, a subscription is required to listen to the full episode or read the full article or post. I love the content, but I agree with others who proposed retaining the model. Perhaps have some shorter episodes that are free or free for a limited time. As it is now, it’s the frustration of being in the middle of a great conversation and having it cut off in the middle. I’ll be removing myself from the mailing list today as well because it’s pointless for me to continue receiving it when I can’t read any of the articles.

I tried having an open mind but this took it too far. As someone with an autoimmune condition for 2 decades and not finding ANY relief until I leaned heavily into healing holistically.. yes through diet/supplements. If you put junk in your body, it’s not going to feel good, supplements allow us to fill in the nutritional gaps and give our body what it needs to regain health. If takes time and it takes work but yes you most definitely have the ability to reverse disease through diet lifestyle, you will never find that in conventional medicine.

I love Christy’s work. But I find that I can’t listen to this podcast like a regular podcast anymore. There’s too much content being put out as a teaser. More than other podcasts I listen to. I have found this to be the same with her newsletter, where her content there is 90% linking to paid content. I would suggest changing the model up, maybe every other episode being behind a paywall. I get that we all need to sustain ourselves out there! But this method is just putting listeners off.

Christy’s podcast used to be a go-to of mine for a decent amount of time. But ever since episode teasers and previews have become mainly the extent of the freely available content, the podcast has become irrelevant in my weekly rotation. The current monetization model is just not working.

Most of the content posted for this podcast is just excerpts trying to entice you to subscribe to her paid content or personal coaching. It’s extremely frustrating to have cliffhanger gotcha Five minute episodes teasing potentially important health information.

I am a big fan of Christy’s work. I feel drawn by many elements and also wonder if more nuance could be explored. I am thinking about the episode with Asher Pandijiris and the intersection between ancient indigenous healing traditions, perspectives and practices and “alternative medicine.” I think while Christy ventured into this a bit, there is room for expansion around the complete tossing out of “alternative medicine” (alternative to what? Who’s culture? Who’s belief system?) and the continuation of healing traditions like Ayurveda, TCM, or culturally rooted healing practices as effective and meaningful as soup recipes or foraged herbs. Sometimes the broadness of claims being made seems as problematic as the broadness of claims it is seeking to oppose. Nuance feels really important here.

Making it so difficult to find out how much it is to subscribe without providing an email address makes me suspicious of this podcast too.

Anorexic social justice warriors? I listened to 3 episodes and can’t say I got any actual information.

Absolute quackery

I love and appreciate this podcast. I’m just getting a little fatigued of all the paywalls and new account creations in order to enjoy basic content. I’m very supportive of my favorite creators, but I can’t afford to support every single one’s ventures, and it becomes tiring to have a ton of different platforms. I understand having a paid tier for extra stuff. But just to finish up the last twenty minutes of an hour-long episode, I subscribed for $6. It wasn’t made clear that there was only twenty minutes left. Now, I have to remember to go and unsubscribe, and I paid $6 for twenty minutes of content; it just feels weird. It’s not this podcast’s fault at all, but this is happening everywhere, and it’s just getting to be a bit much.

Yes and thank you

If you’re not posting entire episodes, you’re not a real podcast. Why would I even try bothering to listen to any more ‘preview’ episodes. Weird, annoying, and honestly sketchy behavior. No thanks.

If you have a rare disease or are hypermobile this podcast isn’t for you.

Literally this entire podcast is: “This is a free preview of a paid episode.”

I’m so glad I found this podcast! I listened to Food Psych long ago and was a huge fan. This podcast is covering important topics!

I’m not a fan of her bringing him on the show, he’s like the biggest proponent of biohacking.

I’ve been following Christy for a while and her evolution into rethinking wellness culture is much needed right now! I appreciate the high quality of her questions, interviews, and newsletter. Always so thoughtfully done. I’m grateful for Christy’s work!

The blanket skepticism of alternative wellness expressed in this podcast is disappointing. Big Pharma is a huge, real problem in Western medicine, and their financial influence guarantees they oversee research. Defaulting to “proven” methods without acknowledging the source of research funding is irresponsibly creating fear and skepticism of genuine alternative health practitioners, some of whom practice ancient wisdom of eastern traditions that is certainly not clinically proven, but is handed down for hundreds of generations for good reason.

Christy so beautifully covers an aspect of diet culture that’s often missed in conversation… wellness culture! I’ve learned so much from this pod, highly recommend.

As a naturopathic doctor I’ve seen the harm that online wellness coaches/gurus can cause. People are searching for answers and sometimes fall into extremism in their thoughts about food. Though I am gluten free due to allergy I have to tell patients that gluten isn’t ‘bad’, carbs aren’t bad and 10 lbs extra weight since high school is also not bad. That being said, I have seen infertility turn around with special diet that is prescribed for that patient. So I don’t agree with throwing out the baby with the bath water which it kinda seems like the podcaster and some guests of this show are doing. Also how is intuitive eating not just the next fad? Believe me I have patients that are totally wrong about their intuition/ ideas about what is good for them. I like this show and will keep listening just to hear what she says

I really enjoyed this episode. While I am studying to become a wellness coach, I believe the discussion on this episode benefits anyone whose serving others on their path to better health. Thank you.

I didn’t realize wellness is just diet culture. Christy Harrison’s work and books and podcasts really helped me see the diet mentalities I have held onto. I love this podcast!

The host and guests are so well-spoken and are willing to share their deep feelings to help others. Thank you for spreading such important insight.

Basically everything in the episode with Dr. Alan Levinovitz contradicted Intuitive eating. It is indicative of the anti-diet rhetoric…don’t believe your doctor or the studies they quote…here are the studies that support this advise…

First with Food Psych, and now with Rethinking Wellness, Christy approaches really challenging topics, with research, insight, humour, and compassion. I will be forever grateful to her for having these conversations, and for helping me to live a fuller, better, happier life x

This first episode (I’m not sure if I can make it through more than one) features so many bad takes that lowkey endorse diet culture and the systemic injustice it arises from. Super disappointed. Harrison has taken a big step toward the center/being “uncontroversial” and away from fighting fatphobia.

I am a Family Physician very interested in wellness and fitness which got me to specialize in lifestyle medicine and sports and exercise medicine, and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Failing patients improve their lifestyle and wellbeing despite good intentions, got me into the world of eating disorders and disordered eating and changed my life and the lives of my patients. I am an activist against diet culture and weight stigma, still finding myself sometimes meeting my patients half way in their fear of gaining weight or attempts at losing weight, in short, a collaborative non judgmental harm reduction approach. I am a big fan of food psych recommending it to my patients and friends and I am enjoying its evolution to “rethinking wellness”. I have read and gifted “anti-diet” and I am looking forward to read the wellness trap. I have enjoyed this episode particularly for many reasons, more specifically the nuances in every approach to health and wellness and our own evolution as practitioners and activists into more empathy and humility when facing people struggles. I cannot thank you enough Christy for all the work you have been doing and specially for this enlightening episode ❤️

So informative and helpful! I can’t wait to read the new book.

I was saddened to hear that Christy Harrison‘s other podcast Food Psych would be ending. That podcast was a godsend for me towards the end of my eating disorder days and helped usher me towards recovery. I’m happy this new podcast is stemming from her new book interviews will continue the important conversations. This podcast is educational and thought-provoking. It’s good to listen with the open mind.

So much better than your other podcast. I love seeing how your philosophy has evolved over the years. The nuance, embrace of ambiguity, willingness to hear differing (yet reasonable) opinions, and humility in recognizing past mistakes/assumptions is so incredibly refreshing and resolves many of the issues that were a turn-off of the old pod (dogmatic, prescriptive eating, narrowly-focused evidence, black and white thinking, projection, blind IE/HAES evangelism)) - not saying you don’t believe in them, just you seem to have broadened your perspective. You will probably get a lot of push-back for this and I hope you don’t give in.

So glad Christy Harrison is still sharing helpful, thoughtful content with us. I appreciate the depth of knowledge in these conversations.

The Food Psych podcast improved my life immeasurably, so I’ll follow Christy Harrison anywhere. While I’m waiting for my preordered copy of The Wellness Trap, I’m going to soak up this new podcast!

Christy Harrison is one of the best podcast hosts in this space, and it is wonderful to see her back talking about a new relevant and important topic. I’m learning so much from these episodes and excited for more! Highly highly recommend!

As a former disordered eater obsessed with all the latest food fads, I find Christy’s podcast instrumental in my continued recovery. Her interviews and topics are always so relevant and eye-opening.