Today I'm speaking with the fantastic Jennifer Rollin, who is a Clinical Psychotherapist and Eating Disorder Specialist based in the US. We’re sharing loads of information about eating disorders, who gets them and why, we’re blowing some stereotypes out of the water, and talking about dos and don'ts if you’re supporting someone with an ED. Then we go on to talk more specifically about body image; how body bashing is a coping mechanism and ways to develop self-worth and value independent of your body which is a super important conversation regardless of whether or not you’ve experienced an eating disorder, so listen up!
In this episode we cover:
✨What having an ED is like
✨What EDs are and why people get them
✨Why stereotypes of EDs are so harmful and add to the stigma surrounding EDs
✨Warning signs of EDs and how to get help
✨ How best to support people in recovery
✨ How body bashing is a coping mechanisms for dealing with a deeper issue
✨ How to find self worth independent of your body
✨ Finally, we answer some listener questions, including, how can you lose weight while recovering from binge eating disorder
Show Notes
{Jennifer's Website}
{Jennifer on Instagram | Twitter | HuffPo}
{Podcast Episode with Not Plant Based on their experience living with an ED}
{BEAT warning signs poster}
{BEAT GP letter}
{Dieting and disordered eating behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from a 10-year longitudinal study}{Project Heal Healer's Circle}
{The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris}
{Landwhale - Jes Baker}
{Find a ED counsellor in the UK}
In this week's episode I'm talking to Monica Karpinski, founder of The Femedic, a platform for discussing taboo topics in women's health. We talk about the parallels between diet culture and the narratives around ‘successful sex’ and how both are systems of control and oppression. How the mainstream portrayal of sex as being predominantly about men’s pleasure takes away from the control and ownership of female bodies - much like dieting does. How narratives around sex teach women to take up less space and not ask for the things we want or need, a lot like, you guessed it... diet culture. Monica and I also talk a bit about our own formative experiences and some of the weird ideas we had about sex as teenagers, and also some really embarrassing shit that happened to me when I was in high school. It’s actually mortifying.
Show Notes
Mega excited to talk to the charming Meredith Noble of Made on a Generous Plan. There's something so calming and joyful about Meredith's presence, even when talking about some really heavy things like healing the relationship you have with your body and with self. Not exactly causal topics, but she makes it easy to talk about. If you're new to Meredith then I think you're going to love her, and if you already know her, you'll know how much of a treat it is to have her on the show.
We talk about:
✨Building community as a healing space
✨Reclaiming the word fat
✨Body image healing and body acceptance
✨Embodiment as a path to healing
✨Rebuilding relationship with self
✨Internalised fat phobia
✨Grieving the thin ideal
Show Notes
{Meredith on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook}
{Meredith's Website}
{Intuitive Eating Workshop}
{Training for Healthcare Professionals}
{Grieving the thin ideal}
{Jes Baker - Landwhale}
{Sonya Renee Taylor - The Body is Not an Apology}
{Lindy West Wedding | Book | On This American Life}
In part two of my conversation with academic and activist Dr. Oli Williams, we discuss the work he does via his art collective, Act With Love. The mission of AWL is to translate Oli's research from complex ideas on weight stigma and inequality into artwork that conveys a simple message. In this 'sode we cover:
✨How health is not defined by weight
✨ The problem with using BMI as a measure of health
✨ How weight stigma worsens health outcomes
✨ The moralisation of bodies
✨ Weight bias in the medical community
✨ The lived experience of ‘obesity’
✨ Social movements and resistance
Show Notes
{Oli on Twitter | Instagram}
{Act With Love}
{Resist and Retweet}
{Steph Liddle Shop | Instagram}
When we think about what needs to be done to improve population health, we think about things like getting people moving more, and eating plenty of fruit and veg. But what if well intentioned health promoting campaigns (like Change 4 Life, 5-a-day, + the sugar tax) actually didn't improve health, but made the disparities in health WORSE? That's the focus of the conversation between myself and researcher/activist Dr. Oli Williams. This is a really rich conversation and I can't wait for you to hear.
We talk about:
✨ the social determinants of health
✨the inequality paradox
✨ the social gradient of health
✨how the best health interventions address underlying inequalities rather than focusing on individual behaviours
✨ how improving standard of living will result in people engaging in healthier lifestyles
Show Notes
{Oli on Twitter | Instagram}
{Act With Love}
{When Life's a Drag by Hilary Graham}
{Spirit Level - Pickett and Wilkinson}
{Public Policy Frameworks For Improving Population Health}
{Exercise as a poisoned elixir: inactivity, inequality and intervention}
{Unequal Health - The Scandal of Our Times}
IFD is health coach, creator of the Stop Fighting Food programme and all round BA. Today she shares her story of being a chronic dieter and how she recovered from 'compulsive overeating'. Isabel has tried every diet in the book, and all the diets pretending not to be diets. She even turned Intuitive Eating into a diet (which she doesn't recommend). In this episode, Isabel shares some of the insights that made her stop feeling crazy around food, and some things that might help you! In this episode we discuss:
✨ Why control + willpower aren't what helps you break out of the diet-binge cycle
✨ Why you can't fall off the wagon if there is no wagon
✨ Why learning about set point weight theory, Health at Every Size and Fatphobia are important in recovering from disordered eating
✨ The 'love yourself thin' diet you need to watch out for
✨ How not to turn intuitive eating into a diet
✨ How hunger, fullness, and 'overeating' are pathologised by diet culture
Show Notes
{IFD Website}
{IFD on Instagram | Twitter}
{IFD's Stop Fighting Food Course}
{My Food Fight Course}
{Virgie Tovar's Guide to Fat Girl Living}
Have you been told that you need to lose weight and cut carbs to manage your PCOS symptoms? That's the advice a lot of people get, problem is, that can be super triggering for anyone who has a history of disordered eating or who wants to build a healthy relationship to food. But don't sweat, I'm joined by non-diet dietitian and PCOS genius Julie Duffy Dillon to talk about how to manage your PCOS from a non-diet, non-restrictive perspective. In this episode we discuss:
✨ What PCOS is
✨ Why dieting and cutting carbs don't work for PCOS
✨ What the research does (and doesn't!) show
✨ Which supplements and medicine can be helpful
✨ How to handle cravings w/o getting into a binge restrict cycle
✨ The importance of sleep + stress management
✨ Inflammation + omega 3s
✨ Movement + exercise
✨ Protein, carbs, + gentle nutrition
Show Notes
{Julie on Instagram | Twitter| Facebook}
{Julie's Website}
{PCOS + Food Peace Support Group}
{Love, Food Podcast}
{PCOS + Food Peace}
{Ovasitol Supplement}
{What to Say at The Doctor's Office}
{Bubble Clay Mask}
{Flow Magazine}
{Guts, Periods + Hormones Episode}
I'm SO PUMPED to share this episode with you, I think you're going to love it! Today I'm talking to Evelyn Tribole, registered dietitian and co-author of Intuitive Eating. Yup, Evelyn is the OG creator of the Intuitive Eating concept, and evidence based approach to building a healthier relationship to food. Evelyn has such a depth of knowledge and incredible insight into the IE process, she is so awesome and I can't wait for you to listen! In this episode we talk about:
✨ The history of Intuitive Eating
✨ What Intuitive Eating is (and isn't!)
✨ The research (evidence base) behind IE
✨ How IE is being co-opted by diet culture and what we can do about it
✨ How reframing 'screw ups' as learning experiences can help facilitate the IE process
✨ How to reject the food police and practicing food neutrality
✨ Common fears about IE
✨ How essential gentle nutrition is as an anchor for the process and why it shouldn't be introduced too early
✨ How diet culture undermines your trust in your body, but every time you honour your hunger or appetite you help rebuild that trust
Show Notes
{Evelyn on Twitter}
{Evelyn's Website}
{Intuitive Eating Facebook Support Group}
{Intuitive Eating Website}
{Intuitive Eating Book}
{Intuitive Eating Workbook}
{David Whyte Poem}
HEY OH! Look who's back. Coming in with a book update, followed by a conversation that desperately needed to be had, and I couldn't think of a more perfect guest for it than dietitian Paige Smathers (of the Nutrition Matters podcast). Paige and I are addressing some recent criticisms made about the non-diet movement like we're a) telling everyone to eat doughnuts all day long and b) shaming people who want to lose weight. This is in response to an article that was published recently which criticised the non-diet movement without appreciating some of the subtleties or nuance of the approach. Paige and I are discussing the concerns, doing a little reflecting, and trying to figure out how we can make the approach more accessible.
We discuss:
✨ Why it's important not to jump into nutrition too fast or too hard
✨ Knowing your audience and protecting the most vulnerable
✨ Why it's important to expose people to a variety of foods
✨ How we can bring make out message accessible to people without alienating others
✨ Why we need to be critical of the non-diet approach to help it move forward
✨ Why being critical of the non-diet approach doesn't mean you're for diets
✨ Why you shouldn't feel ashamed for wanting to lose weight or being on a diet BUT
✨ Why it's also important to understand the forces working on us that make us feel like we need to lose weight to he healthy, happy, or comfortable in our bodies
✨ Why doing the work of a non-diet advocate is HARD and why I had to delete Twitter the other week
Show Notes
{Paige on Instagram | Facebook}
{Nutrition Matters Podcast}
{Paige's Website}
{Long-term weight-loss maintenance: a meta-analysis of US studies}
{Ineffectiveness of commercial weight-loss programs for achieving modest but meaningful weight loss: Systematic review and meta-analysis}
{The National Weight Control Registry: A Critique}
{Sofie Hagen's Made of Human Podcast}
{Sofie Hagen's Shimmer Shatter Show (Highly recommend)}
{Is the Anti-Diet Movement Leading us Astray?}
On this week's 'sode I'm talking to Dr. Charlotte Cooper, psychotherapist and author of fat activism; she is punk, witchy, queer, and fat, and one of the coolest people I've ever met. This is potentially one of my favourite episodes ever. We talk about the euphimising and watering down of fat phobia by the medical establishment. We talk about how the 'War on Obesity' and organisations like the WHO are responsible for creating the problem of fat phobia in the first place and how they are now trying to clean their own mess and STILL GETTING IT WRONG. We talk about why using person first language in relation to obesity is still problematic. We talk about maintaining power structures through constructing fat bodies as problems that need solving and so much more. It's a really rich conversation. I highly recommend you read Charlotte's book and follow her work.
Show Notes
{Charlotte's Website}
{Charlotte on Twitter}
{Cat Pousé podcast}
{Fat Activism}
{Fat & Proud}
{A walk around Fat Activist London}
{Nothing About Us Without Us: Fat People and Research Justice by Dr Charlotte Cooper}
{Obesity Time Bomb}
{Sabrina Falco Massage}
{Amanda LaCount}
{LADA}
Happy New year team! Today I'm talking to the incredible Marci Evans about body image, self-acceptance, and food 'addiction'. Marci is a certified EDRD, a body image healer, and intuitive eating counsellor. Our conversation is a great antidote to all the diet culture BS you're seeing everywhere right now. We talk about why it's so challenging to develop positive body image, what real body positivity actually means and thin privilege. We also look more closely at self-acceptance and self-compassion and why developing practices around these concepts can help you heal your body image. Finally we go deep on the science around the idea of food 'addiction' and discuss what the evidence really means; plus some ideas on how to help build a healthier relationship with foods you feel you might be addicted to.
In the final episode of 2017, we're talking to the sensational Fiona Sutherland, non-diet dietitian & yoga teacher, about how to navigate the holidays around food, body image, and diet chat. We discuss everything from how to cope with food guilt & anxiety, to how to stop food FOMO, breaking the binge/restrict cycle, and how to deal with diet chat and the food police. This is probably my favourite episode of the whole year; Fiona is a total babe, so warm and compassionate but doesn't take any crap. Exactly our kind of people. I really think you're going to love this episode.
SHOW SPONSOR
This episode is Sponsored by the London Centre for Intuitive Eating - This Christmas give the gift of a healthy relationship to food with a gift certificate to my Food Fight programme. 10% of each course sold will be donated to Help Refugees.
Show Notes
This Black Friday we're celebrating the little guys; the indie makers, creators, designers and small shops in our That's My Jam Christmas Gift Guide Special. Emily Beeson, the blogger and creative soul at Young Gold Teeth shares her favourite independents where you can find that really special gift for that hard-to-buy-for person in your life. Whether they're the nester/homebody type, the foodie, or you just need a secret santa gift that doesn't suck, we got you. Emily also shares where to find Christmas crackers that don't suck, pretty Christmas cards, and experiential gifts that aren't your average trashy Groupon. We also talk about Emily's extensive knowledge of celebrity animals (and why you need them in your Insta feed). PLUS, she smack talks Drake ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ P.S. neither Emily or I are judgey about shopping on the high street (Amazon is my lifeline), we just wanted to big up some of the little guys who don't get enough air time.
Show Sponsor
This episode is Sponsored by the London Centre for Intuitive Eating - This Christmas give the gift of a healthy relationship to food with a gift certificate to my Food Fight programme. 10% of each course sold will be donated to Help Refugees.
SHOW NOTES
{Emily on Instagram | Twitter}
{Young Gold Teeth}
{Emily for The Papergang Blog}
GIFTS FOR THE HOME
{Luks Linen - throws, blankets, Turkish towels and linens I’m loving}
{Copper & Solder - handmade concrete and copper accessories}
{Smug - for plants and pots}
{The Future Kept - (We talked about them last year but if I had to pick one, TFK would be my favourite shop. They have a whole gift category for the home filled with handmade ceramics and candles that are really beautiful and all have a story to tell.)}
BEAUTY GIFTS
{Bybi by Clean Beauty Co - for skincare}
{Sister and Co - for body treats}
{LA EVA - for bath and shower gifts}
DO STUFF GIFTS
{Outdoors workshops with Axe and Paddle (not for everyone but a great team of inspiring people)}
{Range of creative workshops at The Forge, Bristol}
{Silver ring making workshops with The Workbench}
{Range of lovely workshops at &Hobbs, Surrey}
FOOD + WELLNESS GIFTS
{Caro x Chocolate Society bars}
{Honest Brew Craft Beers} - (also Salthouse Bottles, my local beer shop)
{The Goodness Project hampers}
GIFTS FOR BIG READERS
{Papersmiths for beautiful books (Do Book Co and coffee table books especially)}
{Magculture for magazines (my favourites are 91, Hole & Corner, Huck and Frankie & Cherry Bombe)}
{School of Life for deep thinking and life lessons}
SHOP OFFLINE: INDIE STORES TO VISIT
{Homage Shop, Brighton}
{Midgely Green, Clevedon}
{Maud’s House, North Yorkshire}
{Future + Found, London}
CHRISTMAS CHEER GIFTS
{Ohh Deer for Secret Santa gifts}
{The Hambledon for crackers and cards}
{West Elm - juniper fox tree decoration (doesn’t say on the British West Elm site but proceeds go to ASPCA) there are four decorations based on Insta-famous animals}
{Thornback & Peel screen-printed Christmas collection}
Celebrity Animals You Should Follow
{Juniper Fox}
{Smoothie the cat}
{Pumpkin the Raccoon}
{Dogs Being Basic}
Today we're talking to Catherine Lippe, a Registered Nutritionist who specialises in paediatric and maternal nutrition, about how to raise intuitive eaters. The things we say, how we act, and what we *think* kids should do can all influence how kids relate to food, and sometimes we do or say things with the best of intentions, that can totally backfire. Catherine shares her tips for things to look out for and we share a model for child feeding that helps take the pressure off parents, and helps the kid build a sense of autonomy and independence around food. The goal here is to help kids preserve their innate hunger and fullness cues and have a healthy relationship to food. We also discuss why restriction of certain foods might actually lead to eating MORE of those foods in the long run, and why it might not be the best idea to use creative coercion tactics to get kids to eat their veg! We just scratched the surface of things to talk about related to raising kids who have a happy, healthy relationship to food, so make sure you check out the show notes for more resources.
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SHOW NOTES
{Catherine's Website}
{Catherine on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook}
{Ellyn Satter's Division of Responsibility in Feeding}
{Ellyn Satter's Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family}
{The Body Book}
{I Love the Shape of Me}
{The Child Feeding Guide}
If you experience digestive issues or period problems, then this is the episode for you. Today I'm joined by Robyn Nohling, a Nurse Practitioner & Registered Dietitian based in NYC who specialises in eating disorders and women's health. We talk about how restricting food to try and solve your digestive issues might be self-defeating, and could cause more stress and functional problems if you're not addressing the underlying causes. We discuss the gut-brain axis and the role stress plays on our digestive system and how just thinking a food is bad for you might cause a negative physiological response (the nocebo effect). Plus the best ways to support your digestive health if you're recovering from restrictive eating. Then we switch things up and talk about periods, hormones, and what the heck is causing your period to disappear, aka hypothalamic amenorrhea. Plus what to do to help you get your period back, and what the big deal is with it being gone in the first place!
Are you ready to shut down some beauty myths? Because consultant dermatologist Dr. Anjali Mahto is here to SHUT 👏 THEM 👏 DOWN 👏 - do you really need eye cream? What about double -cleansing? And do oil based serums actually help with acne? Anjali distills down what we really need in our bathroom cabinets, and what's just junk. Plus we talk about the unrealistic beauty standards placed on women and how dermatologists need to step up and take responsibility when they suspect body dysmorphia. Plus why we need to celebrate the wisdom and experience of older women instead of trying to erase them from consciousness. So much great stuff in this episode, LEAN IN.
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Show Notes - full notes at laurathomasphd.co.uk
{Anjali on Instagram | Twitter}
{Anjali on Huffington Post}
{Preorder Anjali's Book}
{Anjali's Clinics: Skin 55 | Cadogan Clinic}
{Dr Pimple Popper}
{CTPA}
Anjali's Skincare Recommendations:
Sun Screen
Heliocare 360 gel oil-free SPF 50
Facial Cleansers
Oily skin:
Sensitive Skin
Antioxidant Serums
Skin brightening agents (ingredients to look out for):
- Arbutin
- Kojic or mandelic acid
- Glabridin (licorice)
- Azelaic acid
Retinoid or Vitamin A based products:
YOU GUYS, this episode is 🔥🔥🔥 Megan Crabbe, aka BodyPosiPanda, BoPo warrior, author, and earth angel is back on the pod for round 2 (go back and listen to my first ep with her - #4). In this episode we talk about Megan’s experiences writing the book, and how that was for her in terms of her mental health. We talk about anxieties, insecurities, imposter syndrome and the comparison game. So yes, even one of the most influential body positivity advocates on Instagram has bad days and I’m so grateful to Megan for being so honest with us about her mental health. We also talk about what happens when you are learning to eat intuitively and some of the challenges of that process and how to deal with the fear that you may never stop eating. You guys sent me a bunch of questions on this so I’ve tried to work them in. We talk about some common questions that come up around health and body positivity, Megan shuts down diet culture, we talk about how to deal with diet mentality, and why representation and diversity of bodies is so important. We talk about thin privilege, and soooo much more. And then Megan leaves us with her top tips for body positivity, aside from buying her book, which, if you don’t have it yet, then what are you doing with your life?
So excited to share this interview with Anna Kessel which was recorded live at the London Podcast Festival (which is why we sound like we're underwater at some parts 🐡). Anna is a sports journalist and author who advocates for gender equality in sports, but don't stress, she's not preachy about it. Having spent her formative years dodging PE like the rest of us, Anna developed a relationship with sport a bit later in life. We talk about how that relationship has changed over the years, especially now she is a mother. We also discuss how movement can ground us in our bodies and help us develop a better body image instead of being outside and looking at it more critically. However, this is pretty antithetical to the message we get from the #fitspo and #noexcuses movements which use punitive messaging to shame people into working out, or prey on our insecurities about our physical appearance. We also talk about campaigns that get it right and really empower women, like This Girl Can. Plus why it's so important that little girls have options besides party shoes for wearing to school. We also have some great questions from the audience at the end. Enjoy!
Show Notes
{Anna on Twitter | Instagram}
{Eat Sweat Play}
{Maureen Lipman BT Advert}
{This Girl Can Old & New Ads}
{Anna on Girls' school shoes}
{Why is #Fitspo a beauty contest?}
{Women's Sport Trust}
{Hannah Witton on Youtube}
{What to say instead of "you're not fat"}
{Eff Your Fitspo}
{Happy Healthy 50}
In part two of my conversation with Steph Yeboah we discuss the idea that certain bodies dominate the body positive conversation, further marginalising the people who stand to gain the most from the movement and how the media have so much to answer for in terms of promoting certain more 'acceptable' bodies over others. We also talk about the damaging stereotypes that black women live with on a daily basis and how to be an ally for POC by listening, sharing their experiences and supporting their work. Finally we talk about how to build body confidence and be unapologetically yourself. Join in our #bodyapology challenge too.
Show Notes
{Nerd About Town Instagram | Twitter}
{Nerd About Town Blog}
{Tess Holliday}
{Body Positive Power}
{The Slumflower}
{Being Unapologetically Yourself}
{A Letter to my Body}
{Milk & Honey}
{MohDoh}
{R. Kelly's Cult}
{A Victim of R.Kelly's weird cult comes forward}
⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This episode may not be suitable for people with an active eating disorder or for those who feel vulnerable. In this week's 'sode I'm talking to Steph Yeboah - aka Nerd About Town. Steph shares her experiences of being at the receiving end of fat phobia and bullying, and the subsequent self harm and disordered eating she went through. As Steph explains, she’s gone to really extreme measures to try and get the 'perfect body'. We talk about this really painful place to be in where society & people around you are telling you that your body’s a problem, but you can’t change your body so it really becomes a radical act to accept your body, accept your size and begin to love and respect your body. I also go off on a massive tangent about how the idea of healthy or sensible weight loss in a false economy and explain a bit of the weight science behind it (papers in the show notes for HCPs). Anyway, after we take a little detour into weight science, we got back to talking about body image and more specifically where the body positivity movement is at the moment and why Steph identifies more strongly with fat acceptance and fat positivity rather than body positivity. This is such a great episode, I can't wait to share part 2.
Show Notes:
{Nerd About Town Instagram | Twitter}
{Nerd About Town Blog}
{Sign up for FOOD FiGHT}
{Don't Salt My Game at the London Podcast Festival}
{Taylor Swift & Donald Trump}
{Stigma & Perpetuation of Obesity}
{Weight Bias in Health Care Settings}
{The Ironic Effects of Weight Stigma}
{Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality}
Laura Stageman is the founder of cruelty free & sustainable fashion watch brand Votch. Today she's sharing her wild story of withdrawal from topical steroid addiction - a painful condition that occurs when an eczema sufferer weans off of their steroid creams. She tells us why feeling the pain of losing her own skin led her to vow never to wear the skin of another being ever again. We talk about how her debilitating condition left her in the bath for 20 hours a day and the excruciating pain of letting her skin heal. Her story has a happy ending though, and we get talking about ethical, sustainable, and (most importantly) cool vegan fashion. We talk about the struggles of building a brand that goes against the status quo and the creative and innovative solutions for faux leather that are even better than the real deal. Laura shares her favourite brands who are shaking off the idea that vegan shoes, clothes, and accessories are for crunchy hippies, and bringing us cool, fashion forward, compassionate designs.
I’m really excited to introduce you to disordered eating dietician Haley Goodrich. Both Haley and I suffer from anxiety and Haley shares some great advice on how she deals with that, as well as her perfectionist tendencies that in her college days manifested as issues with food and over exercise. We discuss how they can morph and show up in other ways even when you've developed a healthy relationship to food. We also talk about the experience of being a nutrition student and how that can really fuel weirdness around food if you have perfectionist tendencies or are predisposed to it in some way. There's also a level of cognitive dissonance where on one hand you’re trying to be the perfect nutrition student, but on the other hand you want to drink beer and eat cake; something that intuitive eating is flexible enough to incorporate but traditional nutrition and dietetics models are way too rigid for which can again cause a lot of anxiety if you’re a perfectionist. Haley is also a total nutrition boss and she shares some advice for really anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur but especially people who want to work within the health at every size, intuitive eating, and non-diet paradigm.
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Show Notes:
{Haley's Website}
{Haley on Facebook |Instagram| Twitter}
{Inspird to Seek}
{Baby Goats}
{Pumpkin The Racoon}
{Helping Hurricane Harvey victims}
{Food Fight Intuitive Eating Course}(Use code 'DONTSALTMYGAME')
{The London Podcast Festival Tickets}
Today I'm talking to body positive yoga teacher and writer, Lily Silverton about the myths surrounding what a 'yoga body' should look like and how the narrow version of yoga, stemming from the beauty myth and propagated by diet culture, fails to make room for for people who deviate from this oppressive norm. We also talk about the concept of Ahimsa and how Lily interprets this to mean making her classes a safe, body positive space for her students. Lastly we talk about how owning your own privilege doesn't mean you can't be body positive, but it does mean that you can be critical of how diet culture has co-opted this term and how it suppresses the voices of already marginalised people. It's about holding ourselves accountable & fighting for diversity & representation of ALL bodies, not just the ones that are already visible, not just the ones we find pretty. We also talk about how, like all social change, fighting for true body positivity, equality, and diversity is slow and we are only at the beginning and how conversations like these are necessary to chip away at the status quo. Lastly, Lily shares some of her favourite bopo yoga accounts to follow. This feels like a heavy conversation in a lot of way - probably because checking our privilege feels uncomfortable, but I hope we can all learn from this. I by no means am suggesting I'm close to perfect in how we talk about these issues, but I want to learn alongside you guys, and use this podcast to learn and grow together ✌️
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Show Notes:
{Lily on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter}
{All Body Yoga}
{The Myth of the Yoga Body}
{Amputee Yoga}
{Skinny Shaming & Thin Privilege}
{Lily's Interview w/ BodyPosiPanda}
{My Interview w/ BodyPosiPanda}
{Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth}
{Stoner Yoga}
{Yours Truely Melly on Body Positivity}
{Dana Falsetti}
{Jessamyn Stanley}
{Yoga Bodies Book}
{Big Gal Yoga}
{Morning Gloryville}
{Omazie}
{Body Positive Power}
{The London Podcast Festival Tickets}
{Thrive Festival Tickets}
{Lily is an ambassador for the Choose Life Mat Project}
Alright guys, buckle in, it's a long one. Today I’m joined by NHS specialist Dietitian and everyone’s favourite RD, Nic Whitehead as we debunk all the weird crap that bloggers say on their blogs and social media. We talk about the detox myth, activated charcoal, apple cider vinegar, and discuss the whole ‘refined sugar free’ thing. Plus fruit sugars, ‘clean’ plant based milks, and nutrition for acne. We also talk a bit more broadly about developing a healthy relationship with food that doesn’t unnecessarily eliminate or restricts foods and why food is for pleasure, enjoyment, and satisfaction, and that nutrition is never all or nothing.So much great stuff in this 'sode, think you're gonna enjoy it 👾
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Show Notes:
{Nic on Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube}
{The Rooted Project Acne Post}
{Stop Pretending Your Chocolate Cake is Salad}