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Podcast Themes: Diet Culture

 

Podcast 170: The Body Is Not An Apology with Sonya Renee Taylor
Podcast 170: The Body Is Not An Apology with Sonya Renee TaylorI’m so thrilled to welcome Sonya Renee Taylor back to the podcast. We talk about what’s different in the second edition of The Body Is Not an Apology — which is a New York Times bestseller! We also talk about the forthcoming Your Body Is Not an Apology Workbook.

Listen or watch below to find out how Sonya started this amazing work and why she is committed to changing how the world thinks about bodies.

Air Date: March 2021

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Podcast 167: Body Kindness Backstory with Rebecca Scritchfield and Bernie Salazar
Episode 167 - Body Kindness Backstory with Rebecca Scritchfield and Bernie SalazarOMG! We did it. Bernie & I brushed our hair and did our first video podcast for Body Kindness!

We talked about our “origin story” of how we met and how the Body Kindness philosophy came to be. Check the show notes to watch the video version.

Air Date: January 2021

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Podcast 166: Why We Need to Brave Body Shame in 2021 with Julie Sweeney

Why We Need to Brave Body Shame in 2021 with Julie SweeneyYou aren’t born feeling body shame. It’s decided for you, conditioned in you, and you become entangled. Dominant culture’s body ideals can keep you ensnared in your own self-loathing. But what if you want out? Make a pivot and CONNECT to your body, even if you wish it was different. Braving body shame is leaning into your burdens with empathy and compassion, saying “it’s OK, I’m here… I want to care for you.”

My guest Julie Sweeney discusses the virtual conference Braving Body Shame where people share their body stories.

Air Date: January 2021

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Podcast 165: You are MORE than a body. How to heal your relationship with yourself – Doctors Lindsay and Lexie Kite

You are MORE than a body. How to heal your relationship with yourself - Doctors Lindsay and Lexie KiteYour body is an instrument not an ornament and just in time for the New Year, I’ll help you understand what you can do if you want new tools and skills to be kind to yourself. My guests Doctors Lindsay and Lexi Kite, co-founders of Beauty Redefined, share their wisdom from years of research in their new book More Than a Body.

Air Date: December 2020

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Podcast 163: Rebecca and Bernie with Aubrey Gordon, on What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat

Podcast 163: Rebecca and Bernie with Aubrey Gordon, on What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About FatIn this emotional episode, Bernie Salazar, former “winner” of NBC’s The Biggest Loser share his regrets and what he has learned from reading Aubrey Gordon’s new book, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat.

We discuss how anti-fat bias shows up everywhere from air travel to our children’s schools and we envision a new world where higher weight people are treated with respect, kindness, and full humanity.

Air Date: December 2020

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Podcast 156: BODY TALK - Helping Young Adults Explore Their Radical Anatomy with Kelly Jensen

Podcast 156: BODY TALK – Helping Young Adults Explore Their Radical Anatomy with Kelly Jensen

I talk with Kelly Jensen about her new book for young adults called Body Talk, which covers the themes of ability and disability, body positivity, fat positivity, tattoos, language, and much more.

Air Date: August 2020

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Podcast 151: White Supremacy of Yoga with Sabrina Strings PhD, Author of Fearing the Black Body

Podcast 151: White Supremacy of Yoga with Sabrina Strings PhD, Author of Fearing the Black BodyJoin me in conversation with Dr. Sabrina Strings, author of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. She also is a certified yoga teacher and advocate for inclusivity in yoga. We discuss our experiences with yoga and hope for systemic change.

Air Date: June 2020

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Podcast 138: Why being “ANTI-diet” is “pro” health with Christy Harrison, HAES dietitian, host of Food Psych podcast and author of Anti-Diet

Kurbo Weight Watchers App for Kids is Upsetting Parents and ProfessionalsAs more people become aware of words like “body positivity” and “anti-diet” it opens the door for confusion — what does it actually mean and is it really good for health? What makes something a “diet? Christy Harrison’s book Anti-Diet lays out the historical context of dieting and weight stigma, seeking to explain why not dieting at all is actually better for your health. We discuss why healthcare providers must examine how we oppress people operating in a weight normative model of care and how we can create a better, healthier world when we commit to anti-oppression.

Air Date: December 2019

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Episode 125: Kurbo Weight Watchers App for Kids is Upsetting Parents and Professionals

Kurbo Weight Watchers App for Kids is Upsetting Parents and ProfessionalsIn this episode, parents speak out about why they would not use Kurbo Weight Watchers App to help their kids lose weight or or build “healthy lifestyles”. Tune in to hear their heart wrenching stories of their own struggles with body shame and diets. Plus you’ll hear me share what I found deeply concerning about the Kurbo when I used it for just a few days— and perhaps most important, I’ll share inspiring insights for what you can do if you are a parent concerned about your kids health and weight.

Air Date: August 2019

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Podcast 100: Diet Culture Exists Because We Don’t Want to Die with Michelle Allison the Fat Nutritionist

Diet Culture Exists Because We Don't Want to Die with Michelle Allison the Fat NutritionistPsychology research in terror management theory has shown that when people are primed with thoughts of mortality, their behaviors change, but not necessarily in helpful ways. Tune in as I talk with dietitian Michelle Alison (the Fat Nutritionist) about how she was able to extrapolate Ernest Becker’s research from the 1980s to today’s diet culture which is full of “wellness” messages about saving your life with every bite of food, every minute of exercise, and every pill.

Air Date: November 2018

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Episode 83: Dietland on AMC with Sarai Walker, author of the Novel, Dietland

Dietland is a wickedly funny and extraordinarily timed satire based on Sarai Walker’s 2015 best-selling, critically acclaimed novel of the same name. I’m delighted to say that Sarai is my guest on the podcast today!

Equal parts revenge fantasy and heartfelt journey to self-acceptance, Dietland is a darkly comedic story that explores a multitude of issues faced by women today — including patriarchy, misogyny, rape culture, and unrealistic beauty standards.

Air Date: June 2018

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Episode 79: Diets Can Kiss My A** with Jes Baker author of Landwhale and Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

Episode 79: Diets Can Kiss My A** with Jes Baker author of Landwhale and Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

In her latest book, a memoir aptly titled Landwhale (you’ll find out why in the show), Jes Baker, covers important topics in the body positivity and fat liberation space that need to be discussed in the mainstream culture and she does it all through beautiful writing from her personal experience with a liberal dose of blunt honesty and humor.

Jes and I discuss her evolving relationship with her body and how to deal with HAES “trolls”. Plus we discuss why dieting is the greatest scam of them all from her chapter on “Have you ever thought of dieting?”.

Air Date: May 2018

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Episode 75: Your Body Is Not an Apology, with Author, Poet, and Activist Sonya Renee Taylor

Episode 75: Your Body Is Not an Apology, with Author, Poet, and Activist Sonya Renee Taylor

Are you in need of some radical self-love? This is your Body Kindness episode.

Sonya Renee Taylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company promoting radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice and global transformation.

Air Date: April 2018

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Episode 65: So You Want to Talk About Race with Ijeoma Oluo

Ijeoma OluoIjeoma Oluo wants us to talk about race. In her book, So You Want to Talk About Race (Seal Press) she breaks down the barriers and explains, in simple terms and with lively examples, key concepts of privilege, intersectionality, microagressions, cultural appropriation, and more.

Air Date: January 2018

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Podcast 27: Culture Jamming and Mindful Healing with Jes Baker
Podcast 27: Culture Jamming and Mindful Healing with Jes Baker

Jes Baker gives two proud middle fingers to our culture that dictates what is valuable and beautiful. Through her blog, The Militant Baker, her book, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls, speaking engagements, and social media spaces, Jes has disrupted the “thin ideal” by challenging marketing of clothes, perfume, and more showing that fat bodies get to enjoy all the things thin bodies can enjoy.

Air Date: April 2017

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Episode 16: The Religion of Diet Culture
Dr Alan LevinovitzWhat does religion have to do with diets? Probably more than you think. In this episode I talk with professor of religious studies and author of the book, The Gluten Lie, Dr. Alan Levinovitz.

We discuss why “cleansing” and forms of restriction we see with today’s diet culture is not about health at all.

Air Date: January 2017

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Make peace with food, body, and mind--once and for all! - Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, coauthor of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating WorkbookGet the Body Kindness book

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