Episode #4 of 6: Change Your Mind by Changing Your Perspective
About the Podcast
We’re at part four of a 6-part series walking you through Clancy Harrison’s process of questioning her assumptions that hinder the access to healthful foods for all. In eight minutes, she shares how changing your perspective is a healthy exercise if we want to be empathetic, rational and compassionate.
About Clancy Harrison
As a registered dietitian, TEDx speaker, international speaker, and author, Clancy Harrison challenges the way food insecurity is approached in the US. Her mission to demolish the stigma around healthy food access places her on the cutting edge of advocacy.
Clancy is the founder of the Food Dignity® Project, a strategic program for leaders who want to shift how they approach nutrition outreach by making healthy food access a priority. She transforms the lives of thousands of people through her work with corporations, non-profit organizations, and universities.
Currently, Clancy is an advisory board member for the Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics Food Insecurity EPIC program, Ambassador of the National Dairy Council, and the President of the Al Beech West Side Food Pantry. Since the onset of COVID-19 Clancy has distributed nearly 1 million meals in her community to improve access to healthy food through effective collaborations.
Discussion Takeaways
- Clancy challenges you to:
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- Change your perspective by doing one of your daily tasks, chores, exercise a little different. When doing it, recognize:
- The new things you see or hear
- How this change makes you feel
- The challenges
- Here are some examples of the changes you could make. Start small and try what seems feasible in your current circumstance:
- Go to a different park with your kids, especially one with a summer meals programs.
- Allow your kids eat the school lunch. Don’t pack it for them.
- Run your typical exercise route backwards.
- Take public transportation to the store.
- Take a different route to work.
- Change your perspective by doing one of your daily tasks, chores, exercise a little different. When doing it, recognize:
This beautiful drawing has been created by Rebecca Garofano, artist at @veggiedoodlesoup on Instagram and registered dietitian-to-be.
#1 tip to improve access to healthy food
- Hunger can look like you and me.
Each week on the Food Dignity® Podcast, the Food Dignity® Movement's Clancy Harrison hosts a wide variety of hunger experts and other people making changes on the frontlines. Join us as we dive deep into conversations that will change the way you think about food insecurity.
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