Ask Beatty – 01.29.18

Did you know that Americans spend over 60 BILLION dollars a year on diet fads of all kinds. And despite this effort to lose weight, there are over 1 BILLION people who are overweight. And this number is growing. . My guest today is Arden Greenspan-Goldberg, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst,  wellness and executive life coach supervisor and body image expert.  She has …

Angela Hui – Foodie with Eating Disorder Stuck Between Passion and Pathology

Earlier this year, Refinery29 published an article about the curious paradox of being a foodie recovering from an eating disorder. The author’s hesitant conclusion was that an epicurean tongue may be impeding her efforts to regain her health, but do eating disorder recovery and a deep love for food need to be mutually exclusive? In tenth grade, I was obsessed …

Helena Norberg-Hodge – Corporate Globalization Has Been a Wrecking Ball to the American Dream

Implicit in all the rhetoric promoting globalization is the premise that the rest of the world can and should be brought up to the standard of living of the West, and America in particular. For much of the world the American Dream—though a constantly moving target—is globalization’s ultimate endpoint. But if this is the direction globalization is taking the world, …