Diet Culture Rebel Podcast · Bonnie Roney

228. Abbey Sharp’s Take on Diet Trends, SkinnyTok, and Healing Your Relationship with Food

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Bonnie Roney begins by naming the emotional side of healing a relationship with food. She says anger is often part of that process. She links that feeling to family comments, body shame, and the blame many people carry. Abbey Sharp joins the conversation and helps widen that frame. Together they revisit the diet trends that defined the early 2010s. They also look at how those messages still linger now. The discussion turns to the pressure created by extremely polished influencers. It is hard enough to recover without being surrounded by impossible bodies and confident advice. Bonnie and Abbey talk about how seductive those messages can be for young girls and for anyone trying to unlearn diet culture. They also address the confusion that happens when disordered behaviors are recast as health. That confusion gets sharper when content uses tags like food freedom and intuitive eating to make restriction look safe. The episode keeps returning to that danger. It is not only the behavior that harms people, but the way it is sold. Bonnie names the frustration that comes from seeing healing language co-opted by the very culture people are trying to escape. Abbey meets that frustration with a broader view of the work. The conversation shifts from anger toward empathy without brushing aside how real the anger is. Bonnie also offers a practical reframe. She encourages listeners to change the way they talk about food and bodies, even before they fully feel different. The message is simple and gentle. You do not have to feel healed to take healing action. The episode ends by asking listeners to keep showing up with curiosity, compassion, and a willingness to practice. It leaves room for the hard parts while still pointing toward a more peaceful relationship with food.

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A grounded look at how healing from diet culture can shift people from anger toward empathy.

Bonnie Roney and Abbey Sharp trace what can change when someone repairs a relationship with food: not only eating patterns, but also the way they think, feel, and show up with other people.

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