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The Full Plate Podcast with Abbie Attwood, MSFull Plate is where we talk about what it means to have a body in this world through the lens of autonomy, compassion, and liberation. I'm especially focused on the intersection of disordered eating with chronic illness and neurodivergence. Author: Full Plate by Abbie Attwood
Full Plate is a podcast about healing from diet culture, creating peace with food, reclaiming body autonomy and trust, and taking a weight-inclusive approach to our well-being. Each week, Abbie interviews guests or answers listener questions that explore our relationship to food and our bodies. Abbie is an anti-diet nutritionist with a masters in nutrition and integrative health. She is also the founder and owner of Abbie Attwood Wellness, a virtual private practice dedicated to weight-inclusive care, food freedom, body image healing, and dismantling diet culture. Find Full Plate on Instagram @fullplate.podcast Abbie is @abbieattwoodwellness This show is ad-free and listener-supported. For bonus episodes and more content, join us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fullplate abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Nutrition Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Is Diet Culture a Cult? Beauty, Patriarchy, and the Worship of Thinness with Paula Atkinson
Tuesday, 3 November, 2026
Today’s episode is free for everyone. Full Plate is made possible by paid subscribers. To receive bonus posts and support the pod, consider upgrading to paid. It really means the world, so, thank you!Paula Atkinson is a psychotherapist and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who has spent decades working with people around trauma, disordered eating, body image, internalized weight stigma, anxiety, grief, and relationships. For ten years, she was also a professor of Weight & Society at George Washington University, where she taught about our culture’s obsession with thinness, the history and politics of body ideals, and the oppression of larger bodies.Listen for more on:Paula’s experience growing up in a fat body, developing an eating disorder, and discovering how differently people treated her when her body became smallerWhy Paula thinks of thinness as a cult, and what makes its promises so difficult to walk away fromThe relationship between beauty, patriarchy, white supremacy, and the policing of bodiesHow attractiveness became tied to women’s survival, and why beauty standards shift alongside social and political powerThinness as a moral hierarchy, and the promises of purity, superiority, and belongingGLP-1s, starvation, and the normalization of suppressing our bodies’ most basic needsWhy understanding body hatred as a systemic issue can change the way we approach recoveryThe grief of letting go of the promises attached to thinness, even when we know they aren't realWhat to do when you know the body hierarchy is b******t but still struggle with your own body (hint: seething feminist rage)Find more about Paula here. Follow her on Instagram here. And if you’re not following Full Plate on Instagram, make sure to do that here!Support the show on Substack for bonus episodes, community engagement, and access to "Ask Abbie" at abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribeApply for Abbie’s Group Membership for live sessions every other week and a community of support from healing from diet culture:https://www.abbieattwoodwellness.com/circle-monthly-groupSocial media:Find the show on Instagram: @fullplate.podcastFind Abbie on Instagram: @abbieattwoodwellness This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit abbieattwoodwellness.substack.com/subscribe
