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Why You Fear Food: Diet Culture & Food Anxiety in Eating Disorder Recovery
If eating feels stressful, overwhelming, or even scary, you are not alone. Fear of food is incredibly common, especially for people navigating eating disorder recovery or trying to unlearn years of diet culture messaging. What often gets labeled as “lack of willpower” is actually something much deeper. It is learned fear.
In this episode, Dr. Marianne explores how fear of food develops, why it feels so real in the body, and how diet culture conditions people to distrust their own eating instincts. This conversation moves beyond surface-level advice and gets into the psychological and nervous…
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