#104 - Body Kindness Reader Stories – How I Finally Ditched Diets and Learned How To Love Myself
Dec 24, 2018
Happy Holidays! We are closing out 2018 by talking with readers about how they used Body Kindness as a way to break free from years of dieting and body shame. Tune in and get inspired as you contemplate your next step in healing your relationship with food, movement, and self care. You can’t hate yourself healthy but...
#103 - Diet and the Disease of Civilization with Dr. Adrienne Rose Bitar
Dec 16, 2018
The first historical study of diet books, Dr Adrienne Rose Bitar's book Diet and the Disease of Civilization examines how four popular plans -- Paleo, biblical, primitive, and detox diets -- reflect and shape our social world.
Bitar categorized 17,000 diet books based on their titles. All of them, from Paleo to the...
#102 - Learn & Grow Pt 6 - Creating New Habits Takes Serious Effort. Here Are Your Tools.
Dec 10, 2018
You already know that it’s not easy to make changes to your habits. At all. It requires serious effort and a compassionate mindset as you try, mess up, and try again.
In the next episode of our "body kindness for beginners" Learn and Grow series, Bernie and I discuss what is usually missing from the "new habit...
#101 - Worried about being called fat? Anticipated weight stigma harms health with Dr. Angela Meadows, PhD
Dec 3, 2018
Weight stigma, problems with our culture and the biases we carry about higher weight people harms their health. One pathway is through internalized stigma that elevates a person’s worry and anxiety about how they will be treated by the people and the physical spaces in this world (think comfortable seats - or...
#100 - Diet Culture Exists Because We Don't Want to Die with Michelle Allison the Fat Nutritionist
Nov 26, 2018
Psychology 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...