In today’s episode of Love, Curvy Yoga, we interview Linda Bacon! Linda specializes in psychotherapy and physiology with a focus on eating disorders and body image! So much to learn from Linda!
Inside this episode, you’ll hear us talk more about:
- What HAES is and how it became the focus of Linda’s life’s work
- The HAES approach to movement, particularly where yoga comes into play
- What Linda thinks the most pressing work to be done around reducing weight stigma is right now
- And, so much more!
Meet Our Guest, Linda Bacon
Linda Bacon, PhD, is a researcher on the inside track of weight regulation science – a scientist whose three graduate degrees, research, and clinical expertise uniquely prepare her to understand and translate the physiological, psychological, and socio-cultural underpinnings of weight control.
Linda’s academic training includes two Masters Degrees, one in Psychotherapy, specializing in Eating Disorders and Body Image, and the other in Exercise Science, specializing in Metabolism. She also earned a PhD in Physiology with a Nutrition emphasis from the University of California. Relying on her unusual blend of academic, therapeutic and clinical expertise, Linda is adept at translating scientific research into practical application. Her personal difficulties with weight regulation and her experience in overcoming them provide important perspective and inspiration for her work.
Linda is currently a Health Professor at City College of San Francisco. She also holds an honorary appointment as an Associate Nutritionist at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Bacon’s advocacy for Health at Every Size® has generated a large following on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, health and nutrition listservs and specialty blogs, and the international lecture circuit.
An internationally recognized authority on weight and health, she has published her work in top scientific journals as well as the highly acclaimed bestseller, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight. Her forthcoming book, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Fail to Understand about Weight, a crash course in what you need to know about bodies and health, will be released next week and is available for pre-order now.
Connect with Linda Bacon in the following places:
The Association for Size Diversity & Health (ASDAH)