#293: Drinking and diet culture with Lael Atkinson

Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

I’m joined by Lael Atkinson, a certified professional recovery coach who works at the intersection of drinking and dieting. They are talking about the similarities between drinking culture and diet culture and how they have both set us up to steal our time, energy and money. They also talk about how dieting fuels drinking, why we should not compare food addiction to alcohol addiction, and signs that you should visit your relationship with alcohol.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/293 In this episode, we talk about: - The similarities in how dieting and drinking are marketed to us,

- That society encourages us to both drink and diet,

- How their drinking was intertwined with their body image and their queerness,

- The stats on the co-occurrence between eating disorders and substance abuse,

- Ways that drinking and dieting are the same,

- Advice to someone starting to visit their relationship to alcohol,

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