Chrissy King on Shrinking vs. Strength
June 8, 2020
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This episode starts with 30 minutes of anti-racism resources, and then a 30 minute chat with Chrissy King back in March 2020.
Chrissy is a writer, speaker, and fitness coach, and is currently enrolling Anti-Racism Crash Courses for Fitness and Wellness Professionals on July 15th, 16th, and 17th (all separate events!). We don’t address racism in our conversation, the conversation was back in March, and focused on how she healed her relationship with fitness and food, but please join me in supporting her current anti-racist educational content.
Find Chrissy’s Anti-Racism Crash Course
Some Anti-Racist Thoughts and Resources
During the first 30 minutes of this episode, the long “intro” before my conversation with Chrissy, I share some very introductory content on Anti-Racism, and share resources, accounts, and books to buy and read. All of the content I talk about is linked below in the show notes, and more (I added some more resources to the links below that I didn’t know to mention when I recorded the episode!)
Show Notes:
2:06 Find Chrissy’s Anti-Racist Crash Course
5:25 My twitter thread on “I’m Not Racist!” vs. Anti-Racism
“You never arrive at allyship, you must continue to practice allyship” –@itsjacksonbbz
9:15 Trauma
Racism is a re-occurring trauma. Trauma requires safety to heal from.
Books on Trauma:
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
11:52 My break from social media: Why I took it and what it was like.
20:20 Resources:
- Sabrina Strings Book: Fearing the Black Body, to learn how diet culture and white supremacy are very connected and always have been.
- Sabrina Strings on Christy Harrison’s podcast Food Psych
- The Body Is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Nap Ministry instagram talks about rest as a form of resistance, specifically geared towards black people and centuries of chronic exhaustion
- #AmplifyMelanatedVoices was started by:
- Alishia McCullough
- Jessica Wilson, MS. RD.
- I am also learning from Rachel Cargle through her Patreon: The Great Unlearn
- Here is an article compiling Anti-Racist research
Other Books About Race and Racism:
23:59: A thread that explains #abolishthepolice and what it actually means
32:11 Chrissy King conversation on how she shifted from shrinking to strengthening. Remember to follow along with Chrissy’s work!
Find Chrissy’s Anti-Racism Crash Course
This episode is brought to you by: The F*ck It Diet Book, The F*ck It Diet Archive on Patreon, my social media hiatus, and my second book that is still figuring out what it is and what it wants to be.