Episode #112: Strategies To Free Yourself From Food and Body Shame This Holiday Season

The holiday season is an intense time, and it’s not surprising that folks may feel more shame around their patterns of eating and their bodies.

On the podcast, Tara shares what the mechanism of shame is and how it works, why you may be feeling more shame during this time of year, and how shame around food and shame around your body are two different things (but may feel like one thing).

Tara offers some strategies around how to free yourself from shame so that you don’t need to react and reinforce it. 

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Episode #111: Reclaiming Body Trust with Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kenavey

On the podcast, Tara speaks with the founders of the Center for Body Trust, Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kenavey. They co-authored “Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path To Healing and Liberation”, which was recently published. 

Hillary and Dana describe diet culture as a shapeshifter that’s incredibly deceptive. They also share how destructive it is because it speaks to people’s hearts and tender spots. This is why some people are more susceptible to the order and control around food that diet culture offers.  Hillary shares why it’s so heartbreaking that people aren’t offered consent to opt into diet culture, instead they are just immersed in it. 

We also talked about what trust looks like and feels like. Dana asks “ Who are you placing your trust in?” when it comes to food, your health and your body. She shares the analogy of seeing your journey of body trust as a tree, and being able to move from old poisonous soil to nourishing soil. 

Hilary offers a powerful distinction around transformation, which often comes from being able to reclaim our personal narrative around food and body image and being able to understand all the pieces of it including the impact of diet culture. 

Connect with Dana and Hillary here: 

FACEBOOK: @CenterForBodyTrust  

INSTAGRAM: @Center4BodyTrust  

Order your copy of Reclaiming Body Trust here. 

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Episode #110: Why It’s Time to Stop Calling Food “Junk” or “Healthy”

I can just say “junk food” and you know immediately what foods fit into that category. You also know what foods are “healthy”. We’ve learned which foods are which from our parents, teachers, social media, friends, and diet programs.  

But do these labels change whether you eat those foods or not? Or, do you just feel better or worse when you eat them? 

On the podcast, Tara dives into the messages we hear about the value of foods and how conflicting they are, why these labels are meant to motivate us to eat in a certain way but that’s not really what it does, and how to look at food instead (without the labels). 

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