This is part two of our interview. Listen to Part One here. In my second interview with Sabrina Strings, PhD, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia, we discuss why only white women’s bodies were subjects of control in historical fat phobia. Dr. Strings shares the history of the BMI… [Read More]

Sabrina Strings, PhD is the author of the new book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. In this two-part interview, we discuss how she was able to connect racism with fatphobia, control of women’s bodies historically and through today’s diet culture, and how medicine’s use of the BMI metric is problematic… [Read More]

In part two of my series on Burnout, which is also the title of a new book by Emily and Amelia Nagoski, we’re discussing why you should stop fighting your “inner critic” (that voice in your head constantly shouting at you, judging you and shaming you). In reality, this “madwoman in the attic” is trying… [Read More]

Burnout is the stress resilience book I’m recommending to friends and clients from now on. This two-part podcast series with Emily and Amelia Nagoski will explain why. We all have stress, but we aren’t all completing the stress cycle, which can have real health consequences. Learn about “human giver syndrome” and why the opposite is… [Read More]

How would it feel to get an extra one to two hours of sleep per night? If the thought of that sounds absolutely amazing then you’re like most people who don’t get enough sleep. (Side effects include daytime feelings of being drunk! fatigue! irritability!) Get our real life complaints and realistic advice for mindset and… [Read More]

In this two-part episode, fellow anti-diet mom Virginia Sole-Smith and I discuss the ways in which culture sabotages parents, especially moms, by upholding unhelpful beliefs about food and weight. Virginia shares her rock bottom moment of what it took to finally give her daughter chocolate milk and why she had to unlearn much of what… [Read More]

Eating can be one of life’s greatest pleasures and also a meaningful way to learn about different cultures. As parents, we want our excitement for different foods and cultures to be contagious. We hope our kids will be open-minded about new foods and different cuisines so they might grow into healthy, knowledgeable, and culinary-interested young… [Read More]

In this episode listeners ask us what is the most difficult thing in leaving diet culture for the Body Kindness philosophy, how to practice self-compassion when feeling body shame, what to do about stress and anxiety related weight loss, and how to handle the fear of weight gain with intuitive eating. Rebecca shares her concerns… [Read More]

Stress has a function and so does emotional eating. How you relate to stress and frame your views of emotional eating can make all the difference in how you feel about your body. In this powerful Learn and Grow episode, you’ll learn why Bernie needed to stop restricting in order to realize that it would… [Read More]