Episode 23: Coping with a Bad Body Image Day with Liz Brinkman RDN
"......this [body image healing] isn't about how do I lose weight and fit into the standard, but let's just imagine that you can get to a place of respecting your body and having curiosity and compassion to your body and still live a very good and fulfilling life."- Liz Brinkman, RDN
Show Details:
Liz Brinkman, joins us today to discuss ways to hold space and share power. We talk about body image, the way we see ourselves and feel about the way we look, our thoughts and beliefs about our body. They come from somewhere, and we are exploring that.
Liz Brinkman, RD is an anti-diet registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and Be Body Positive Licensed Facilitator. Since 1998, Liz has worked to support people in exploring their relationships with food and paths to body liberation. Her work has been dedicated to exposing diet culture as a system of oppression with roots in racism, misogyny, ableism, and other harmful systems, and to helping dismantle those systems so that everyone—regardless of size, shape, skin color, sexual orientation, or any other identity—can truly be free.
"I offer in-person and virtual intuitive eating coaching to help people all over the world make peace with food and their bodies. I'm the mom of four kids (ages 7-16). I regularly play the role of advocate at the doctor's office and in schools, inviting a more nuanced conversation about health and nutrition, in defense of all childrens' unique bodies. I work with children, teens, and parents to prevent and treat eating/feeding disorders. At the end of the day, I want you to have more options with food, not less. I want you to know this is no place for perfection and that separateness is an illusion. That we belong to each other. " - Liz
Links/Resources from the show:
Mentors:
Books:
Mothers, Daughters, Body Image by Hillary McBride
The Mother Daughter Project by SuEllen Hamkin and Renee Schulz
Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter
Pursuing Perfection by Margo Maine
Burnout: The Secret of Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
Cassandra Speaks: When Women are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
How We Show Up: REclaiming Family Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
Videos:
Body Positivity or Body Obsession?
Stand for Self-Love (TED talk) + All Bodies are Beautiful by Amy Pence Brown
What we don’t teach kids about sex
What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure
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