Willing To Be Wrong

About Willing To Be Wrong

Fancy being wrong about something? That's a rhetorical question, of course, you don't... no one does. The thing is, once the initial discomfort has passed, it's truly the best way way to grow as a human being. Welcome to Willing To Be Wrong, a podcast with the intention of doing just that. My name is Dr Joshua Wolrich and I'm an NHS surgical doctor, nutrition MSc student, author and accidental influencer. Like all healthcare professionals, I was taught by a system that practises medicine in a weight-normative manner, where a focus on body weight is used to try and define health and wellbeing. After internalising the weight stigma I'd been subject to for years, I left medical school believing that I couldn't be a good doctor if I were fat, prompting further disordered eating and a damaged relationship with food. After a difficult couple of years of being challenged on my beliefs by people far cleverer than me, I now believe that healthcare has to become weight-inclusive if we're ever going to change the massive problem of weight stigma and the both direct and indirect harm it does to patients. Join me as I talk to guests about a wide range of topics from the complex nature of weight and health (and why neither should be treated as a personal responsibility), to nutribollocks such as 'celery juice detoxifies your liver' and why it's utter bullshit. The guests aren't all experts (as that wouldn't be fun) and the questions are rarely pre-prepared, but true conversations tend not to be. My debut book, Food Isn't Medicine: Challenge Nutribollocks & Escape The Diet Trap, is now available for pre-order online on Amazon, Book Depository, and elsewhere. For more information, you can find me on social media @drjoshuawolrich.

Publisher

Dr Joshua Wolrich

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Feb 2021

Latest episode

16 May 2021

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 May 2021

   #9: Anna Sweeney - Navigating Diet Culture as a Dietitian Living with Multiple Sclerosis

   In this episode, Anna Sweeney (@dietitiananna) talks about the impact of the 'food is medicine' rhetoric and diet culture whilst being a full-time disabled person living with MS.

2. 

   9 May 2021

   #8: Zoe Pearce - Living with Lipoedema

   In this episode, Zoe Pearce (@thickthighs.positivevibes) talks about living with Lipoedema in a world where it's often treated like a fake condition.

3. 

   11 Apr 2021

   #7: Sarah Nicole Landry - #PassTheMic, Privilege, Detoxes and Cupcakes

   In this episode, Sarah Nicole Landry (@thebirdspapaya) talks about why it's so crucial to pass the mic to content creators with less privilege than ourselves.

4. 

   4 Apr 2021

   #6: Stephanie Yeboah - Body Positivity, the Medicalisation of Size and COVID Mortality

   In this episode, Steph explains why the body positivity movement no longer represents those it was created for, and then we talk about why the medicalisation of body size has such potential for harm.

5. 

   28 Mar 2021

   #5: Teddy Okechukwu - Are Medical Students Taught about Weight Stigma?

   The fact that many medical students are still not being taught about weight stigma or the social determinants of health is a MASSIVE problem. A MASSIVE ONE. There really is no excuse for it.

6. 

   21 Mar 2021

   #4: Pixie Turner - Emotional Eating, Wellness Wankery and Coffee Enemas

   Emotional eating is completely normal. In this episode, Pixie Turner, a registered nutritionist and trainee psychotherapist, explains what it is and why it's not the problem we've been taught to treat it as.

7. 

   14 Mar 2021

   #3: Amanda Lee - Medical Weight Stigma, the History of the BMI and Why Weight-Centric Healthcare Is Just Lazy

   In this episode, I get to have a conversation with Amanda Lee, who is an actress, singer and photographer who went viral last month after she posted an incredibly emotional video after experiencing weight stigma from her doctor.

8. 

   7 Mar 2021

   #2: Callie Thorpe - The Predictable (yet Painful) Response to the Cosmo Cover, 'This is healthy!'

   In this episode, I get to talk with the incredible Callie Thorpe about the stigmatising backlash that followed after she was featured on the cover of the February 2021 issue of Cosmopolitan.

9. 

   28 Feb 2021

   #1: Megan Crabbe - Eating Disorders, Body Positivity and 'Zero-Calorie' Noodles

   In this first episode, I get to have a conversation with the fantastic Megan Crabbe. We discuss topics ranging from her relationship with food and recovering from an eating disorder, the impact of social media on body image, why she loves pandas so much, and why she might soon be changing the name of her social media handles (you heard it here first).

10. 

    25 Feb 2021

    A Brief Introduction

    Who am I? Why have I chosen to call this podcast Willing To Be Wrong? Hopefully, this brief introduction should answer both!

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