When Healthy Eating Becomes Unhealthy with Therapist Amy Harman

Podcast: The PlantWhys Podcast · Ali Essig

Opublikowano: 2026-05-09

Podcast host Ali Essig interviews licensed marriage and family therapist and certified eating disorder specialist Amy Harman, who has 20 years’ experience treating eating disorders, body image concerns, anxiety, and depression (primarily teens and their parents). They discuss orthorexia as a rigid, health-fixated pattern that disrupts life and can fit within anorexia, and how practices like calorie/weight tracking, extreme exercise, and bodybuilding can become “slippery slopes” when they drive obsession, restriction, and impaired functioning. Harmon contrasts flexible routines with disordered responses (rumination, compensatory restriction, exercising when sick or against medical advice), emphasizes balancing physical and mental health, and highlights intuit...