Body Kindness

The Switch Witch with Bernie Salazar

#179 - Treating Your Anxiety with Kindness with The Anxiety Sisters

#178 - What If I'm 'Too Numb' to Connect? with Bernie Salazar

#177 - Bouncing Back from Numbness with Bernie Salazar

#176 - Why Intuitive Eating Works for Diabetes Concerns

#175 - Why Modified Movement Works for Diabetes

#174 - The Truth About Carbs and Diabetes

#173 - Busting Myths about Blood Sugars and Diabetes

#172 - Understanding Weight Concerns and Diabetes Self-Care

#171 - How to Deal with Diabetes Diagnosis Shame

#170 - The Body Is Not An Apology with Sonya Renee Taylor

#169 - Bernie and Rebecca Discuss Emotional Eating

#168 - Hope in Healing: Blending Psychedelic Medicine with Emotion Coaching with Dr. Adele Lafrance & Dr. Joe Tafur

#167 - Body Kindness Backstory with Rebecca Scritchfield and Bernie Salazar

#166 - Why We Need to Brave Body Shame in 2021 with Julie Sweeney

#165 - You Are MORE Than A Body. How To Heal Your Relationship With Yourself - Doctors Lindsay and Lexie Kite

#164 - Reflections and Intentions to Learn and Grow with Bernie Salazar

#163 - Rebecca and Bernie with Aubrey Gordon, on What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

Why We Need a Culture of Belonging for Collective Well-Being, with Dr. Lindo Bacon author of Radical Belonging

#161 - 2020 Burnout: Saving Our Mental Health for the Greater Good

#160 - Rage Becomes Her: Why Self-Care Won’t Save Us with Soraya Chemaly

#159 - Bodies on the Ballot with Jaclyn Friedman, author and activist

#158 - Creating Communities Where You Belong with Dr. Joy Cox author of Fat Women in Black Bodies and Co-founder of Jabbie app

#157 - Becoming an Embodied Anti-Racist for Collective Trauma Healing with Francesca Marguerite Maximé

[Repost] #109 - Under Pressure - How Anxiety Shows Up for Today’s Teen Girls and How Parents Can Help with Lisa Damour, PhD

#156 - Helping Young Adults Explore Their Radical Anatomy with Kelly Jensen

#155 - The Truth About IBS, Anxiety, and Effectiveness of the Low FODMAP “Diet” with Kate Scarlata, RDN

#154 - How to Cope with Your Emotions with Kindness with Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch authors of Intuitive Eating

#153 - Help with Picky Eating, Is it ARFID? with Rebecca Thomas

#152 - Changing the Value Systems in Yoga with Janessa Mondestin, Yoga Therapist and Director of Culture for Yoga International

#151 - White Supremacy of Yoga with Sabrina Strings PhD, Author of Fearing the Black Body

#150 - Racism Explains the Origins of Fat Phobia and Diet Culture, with Sabrina Strings PhD, Author of Fearing the Black Body

[Repost] #65 - So You Want to Talk About Race with Ijeoma Oluo

#149 - Learn & Grow Part 13 – How to Avoid a “Weight Lecture” at the Doctors with Bernie Salazar

#148 - Improve Your “Family System” by Creating “Fair Play” at Home with Eve Rodsky

#147 - Compassion through Crisis, Stories of Hope & Gratitude for Healthcare Workers

#146 - A different type of COVID-19 loss: Pregnancy dreams “on hold” with Fertility Coach Nicola Salmon

#145 - Coping with Anxiety During COVID-19

#144 - Resilience Practices for Anxiety and Body Shame During COVID-19 with Nicola Haggett

[Repost] #117: How to recover from BURNOUT with Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

#143 - "I Developed a Restrictive Eating Disorder in Elementary School. Here’s Why It Wasn’t Diagnosed for Over a Decade" with Gloria Oladipo

#142 - Believe Me: Why trusting women is essential for collective well-being with Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti

#141 - How the 4 S’s help you “show up” for kids well-being with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD Bestselling Author

#140 - Boys and Sex: Navigating the new masculinity with bestselling author Peggy Orenstein

#139 - How to experience the joy of movement and the power of moving in community with Kelly McGonigal PhD

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

#137 - Listener Q&A: How can teachers help kids with body kindness? What if I’m feeling detached from my body?

#136 - Listener Q&A: Can I learn to like exercise? How do I address co-workers food shame?

#135 - Take Meaningful ACTion toward change with Steven C. Hayes PhD author of A Liberated Mind

#134 - Listener Q&A: What's the real deal with Intermittent Fasting?

#133 - Learn & Grow Part 12 – “Dear Panic Attack, Thank You for All You Have Shown Me.” (and Other Gratitudes From Body Kindness Readers and Listeners)

#132 - Intuitive Eating: The history, growth and impact with co-creators Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

#131 - Actress Lisa Linke on Diet Culture, Fatphobia in Entertainment and Healing Her Body Relationship

#130 - Empowering teens to find validation within themselves with Angie Manfredi, author of The (Other) F Word

#129 - Listener Q&A – Your Body Kindness Questions, Answered

#128 - How time tracking can help you improve your life with Laura Vanderkam, author of Off the Clock

#127 - Please Don't Screw Up Our Kids! Part 2: A Conversation About Food, Weight and Body Image with Virginia Sole-Smith of Comfort Food Podcast

#126: Concerned about your child's weight? Here's how you can help them without harming

#125 - Kurbo Weight Watchers App for Kids is Upsetting Parents and Professionals

[Repost] #26 - Be the Expert on Your Body: Intuitive Eating as an act of Body Kindness with Evelyn Tribole, co-author of Intuitive Eating book and workbook

[Repost] #31 - Intimate Justice & How To Talk To Kids About Sex, with NYT Bestselling Author Peggy Orenstein

[Repost] #53 - Why We All Need Fat Activism with Marilyn Wann, Author of Fat!So? and Creator of the YAY! Scale

#124 - Eliminating weight stigma from medical care with Jennifer Gaudiani MD, author of Sick Enough

#123 - Learn & Grow Pt 11 - Why we finally said “I’m sorry” to our bodies and how you can do it too

#122 - Sex is a Social Skill: How to have open sexual communication with Dawn Serra

#121 - How we feel about Nike’s fat mannequin with Bernie Salazar and Ragen Chastain

#120 - Fearing the Black Body Part Two - BMI is not just a bogus measure, it is masking medical sexism and racism with Sabrina Strings

#119 - Fearing the Black Body Part One with Sabrina Strings PhD - Why Health is about Access, Not Weight

#118 - Burnout Part 2: Changing Your Relationship to Your “Madwoman in the Attic” with Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

#117 - How to recover from BURNOUT (Part 1) with Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

#116 - Learn & Grow Pt 10 - How to get the sleep your brain and body really need

#115 - Please Don't Screw Up Our Kids! Part 1: A Conversation About Food, Weight and Body Image with Virginia Sole-Smith of Comfort Food Podcast

#114 - Listeners ask us about orthorexia, coping with weight regain after stress and anxiety, and body kindness when everyone is pursuing weight loss

#113 - Learn & Grow Pt 9 - The Upside of Stress (and Emotional Eating)

#112 - Reflect and Retreat: How has culture informed your relationship with your body? A conversation and performance poetry reading with sociologist and author Kimberly Dark

#111 - Negative body image, depression, and mindful self-care in pregnancy and postpartum with Dr. Jennifer Webb

#110 - Learn & Grow Pt 8 – How Your Body Fights to Regain Weight After Dieting (Research from The Biggest Loser)

#109 - Under Pressure - How Anxiety Shows Up for Today’s Teen Girls and How Parents Can Help with Lisa Damour, PhD

#108 - How Weight Stigma Harms Culture and Excludes Higher Weight People from IVF, Hip Replacements and More, with Fiona Willer

#107 - Learn and Grow Pt 7 - The Biggest Loser Did Not Exist to Create Better Lives with Bernie Salazar a former “winner” of the show

#106 - Trauma Resilience: How Body Kindness is Helping Me Heal

#105 - An Anti-Diet New Year: Body Shame Out, Body Kindness In

#104 - Body Kindness Reader Stories – How I Finally Ditched Diets and Learned How To Love Myself

#103 - Diet and the Disease of Civilization with Dr. Adrienne Rose Bitar

#102 - Learn & Grow Pt 6 - Creating New Habits Takes Serious Effort. Here Are Your Tools.

#101 - Worried about being called fat? Anticipated weight stigma harms health with Dr. Angela Meadows, PhD

#100 - Diet Culture Exists Because We Don't Want to Die with Michelle Allison the Fat Nutritionist

#99 - Learn & Grow Pt 5 - How Mindfulness Helps You Handle Bad Emotions

#98 - Understanding Weight Stigma Research Part One - with Jeffrey Hunger, PhD

#97 - Learn & Grow Part 4 - You don’t have a food addiction. You need permission to eat (and eat emotionally)

#96 - Why Dieting Doesn’t Usually Work with Neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt, PhD

#95 - Body Kindness Learn & Grow Part 3 - Reflections on Intuitive Eating from Principles to Practice

#94 - Body Kindness Learn & Grow Part 2 - Extreme Exercise is Unnecessary

#93 - Body Kindness Learn & Grow Part 1 - Ditching 'Diet Brain' for Body Kindness

#92 - Talking About Food and Bodies in the Home with Anna Lutz, RDN

#91 - Raising HAES Body Kindness for families with Kristy Fassio

#90 - You Have the Right to Remain Fat (and be a fat ally) with Virgie Tovar

#89 - Body Kindness in Postpartum Women: Body Image, Postpartum Depression, and Disordered Eating with Lindsay Stenovec, Creator of The Nurtured Mama

#88 - Why Women Fake Orgasms with Emily Nagoski, PhD author of the bestselling book Come As You Are

#87 - Weight and Body Conversations in the Media

#86 - Racial Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes with “The Radical Doula” Miriam Zoila Pérez

#85 - Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick with feminist author Maya Dusenbery

#84 - Body Image Flexibility: Insights from Self-compassion and Positive Body Image Research with Jennifer Webb, PhD

#83 - Dietland on AMC with Sarai Walker, author of the novel, Dietland

#82 - Practicing Body Kindness with the Loving-Kindness Meditation

#81 - Mindful Eating for Well-Being, Not Weight Loss with Lilia Graue and Michelle May

#80 - Diversity in Fashion with Straight/Curve Documentary Filmmaker Jenny McQuaile

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

#78 - 'My doctor suggested weight loss surgery without even asking about my habits' - Weight stigma in medicine with Bernie Salazar

#77 - Diversity in Dietetics - Why cultural competency isn't enough to improve health care with Tamara Melton, RDN, Co-Founder of Diversify Dietetics

#76 - Writing and Reading About Health and Nutrition with Carrie Dennett

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

#74 - It’s Good to be "RAD" Why radical dietetics is a good thing for health enhancement with Dana Sturtevant of Be Nourished

#73 - How we can all MEND our relationship with ourselves with Rosie Molinary, author of Beautiful You

#72 - Weight Watchers, Diet Culture and Our Kids: Four Adults Chat it Out

#71 - Athletes at Every Size and The Plight of the “Fit Fatty” with Ragen Chastain, Guinness World Record Holder, Speaker, and Fat Activist

#70 - Enough As She Is, Helping Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards with bestselling author Rachel Simmons

#69 - A Money Health Checkup with Somatic Therapist Bari Tessler Linden

#68 - The RBG Workout with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Trainer Bryant Johnson

#67 - You Do You: How to Give Fewer F* by Being Yourself with bestselling author Sarah Knight

#66 - How to Do “Body Positivity” with Megan Crabbe (aka BodyPosiPanda), author of Body Positive Power

#65 - So You Want to Talk About Race with Ijeoma Oluo

#64 - The Beauty of Being a Misfit - A Manifesto for Everyone Who Doesn’t Fit In

#63 - Goal Digging for an Anti-Diet Year

#62 - Body Kindness Book Turns 1 and Our Favorite Episodes, Revisited

#61 - Rebecca's (Solo) Birthday Party and Self-Reflection

#60 - Rebecca and Bernie catch up - A rare face to face recording in Chicago!

#59 - Betrayed by cancer: Starting body acceptance over after surgical scars with Amy Herbert

#58 - Holding My Pregnancy for Ransom - An infertility 'body betrayal' story from Liz Shaw, co-author of Fertility Foods Cookbook and founder of the Bumps to Baby community

#57 - Get 'Unscrewed' in this #MeToo world with Jaclyn Friedman, activist and author of Unscrewed

#56 - I Feel Trapped By My Diagnosis - Finding Your New Normal with Anna Sweeney, Dietitian and Disability Rights Advocate

#55 - Resilience through an Eating Disorder with Christy Harrison, host of Food Psych Podcast, HAES Dietitian, and Intuitive Eating Counselor

#54 - It's Never Just About the Hair - Metastatic Breast Cancer and Resilience with Bare Short Film Director Kerith Lemon and Co-Writer Rebecca Hall

#53 - Why We All Need Fat Activism with Marilyn Wann, Author of Fat!So? and Creator of the YAY! Scale

#52 - Radical Self-Acceptance with Body Image Activist and Author Rosie Molinary

#51 - Why Diets are Bad for Your Brain with Neuroscientist and TED Talk Superstar, Sandra Aamodt, PhD

#50 - Challenging The Overwhelm with Bestselling Author Brigid Schulte - How Can We Find the Time to Have a Good Life?

#49 - Yoga Farts, Crazy Sweat, and Weight Concerns with Bernie Salazar

#48 - Heal Your Body Image with a Connection-Based Yoga Practice with Melanie Klein

#47 - The Perfect Body For Movement… Is YOURS. How to Build Self-compassion Through Yoga with Anna Guest-Jelley of CurvyYoga.com

#46 - Goodbye, Biggest Loser! Hello, September 'Spiral Up' Challenge

#45 - Is This a Diet Too? Why 'Healthy Eating' is So Confusing for Non-Dieters, with HAES Dietitian Glenys Oyston and Body Image Coach Sarah Vance

#44 - How Can I Still Love My Body If I Want To Get to a Healthier Place? with Registered Dietitian Holley Grainger

#43 - What To Do When You Have Your Wake Up Call And It's Time To Change For Good: How Intuitive Eating Dietitian Alexis Joseph Liberated Herself From Diet Culture

#42 - Intuitive Eating For Families, With Elyse Resch, Co-Author Of Intuitive Eating

#41 - Not All Eating Disorders Are 'To The Bone': Discussing ED Stereotypes With Chevese Turner From the Binge Eating Disorder Association

#40 - Strong is the New Pretty - Celebrating Girls Being Themselves with Author & Photographer Kate T Parker

A Hunger To Be Seen And Heard: Unpacking Roxane Gay’s New Memoir, With Dr Maria Paredes

#38 - Why Do Men Hide Their Body Image Issues? With HAES Dietitian Aaron Flores

#37 - Bringing Body Kindness In The Family, with 'Born To Eat' Author Leslie Schilling

#36 - Finding Your True Voice With The Power Of Metaphor, with Psychologist and Author Anita Johnston

#35 - Our 'Sexperiment' Month

#34 - How To Let Your Body Receive Pleasure with With Dr. Sybil Lockhart from OMGYes.com

#33 - Sex For One And All: How To Reconcile Your Body Image With Your Sex Life, with Sex Educator, Activist, Author Elle Chase

#32 - Orgasm Inequality - Achieving Parity In Achieving Climax, With Sexuality Scholar And Body Acceptance Activist Melissa Fabello

#31 - Intimate Justice & How To Talk To Kids About Sex, with NYT Bestselling Author Peggy Orenstein.

#30 - Cookies And Calendars - Our Highs And Lows

#29 - The Intersection Of Bridal Culture And Diet Culture, with Author & Refinery29 Columnist Kelsey Miller

#28 - Yoga Is For Every Body, with Author, Yoga Teacher & Body Positive Advocate Jessamyn Stanley

#27 - Culture Jamming And Mindful Healing With Jes Baker

#26 - Be the Expert on Your Body: Intuitive Eating as an act of Body Kindness with Evelyn Tribole, co-author of Intuitive Eating book and workbook

#25 - Bob Harper's Heart Attack

#24 - Moms Get Real - Guiding Our Kids To Love Food, With Dietitian Sally Kuzemchak

#23 - Why Moderation Isn't As Sexy As Eliminate, with Nutrition Diva Monica Reinagel

#22 - Why Healthy Eating Should Not Look Like Dieting, Award Winning Chef & Dietitian Ellie Krieger

#21 - Facing A Fear - Bernie Sees The Doctor

#20 - How Dieting Disrupts Your Body’s Natural Wellbeing, with Dr Kari Anderson of Green Mountain at Fox Run

#19 - Why Loving Food is Good for You, with Registered Dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon

#18 - The Health Benefits Of Bad Emotions: Why Befriending Your Critical Voice Helps You Take Care Of Yourself, With Connie Sobczak

#17 - Handling This Messy Life

#16 - The Religion of Diet Culture, with Dr. Alan Levinovitz

#15 - It's My #BookBirthday, Let's Celebrate Body Kindness

#14 - Learn & Grow Part 13 – “Dear panic attack, Thank you for all you have shown me” (and other gratitudes from Body Kindness readers and listeners)

#13 - Can You Be Body Positive And Want To Lose Weight?

#12 - Worried About Your Child's Weight? How To Handle It With Body Kindness

#11 - Learn & Grow Pt 11 - Why we finally said “I’m sorry” to our bodies and how you can do it too

#10 - Learn & Grow Pt 10 - How to get the sleep your brain and body really need

#9 - Learn & Grow Pt 9 - The Upside of Stress (and Emotional Eating)

#8 - Learn & Grow Pt 8 - How Your Body Fights to Regain Weight After Dieting (Research from The Biggest Loser)

#7 - Learn & Grow Pt 7 - The Biggest Loser Did Not Exist to Create Better Lives with Bernie Salazar, a former “winner” of the show

#6 - Learn & Grow Pt 6 - Creating New Habits Takes Serious Effort. Here Are Your Tools

#5 - Learn & Grow Part 5 - How Mindfulness Helps You Handle Bad Emotions

#4 - Learn & Grow Part 4 - You don’t have a food addiction. You need permission to eat (and eat emotionally)

#3 - Learn & Grow Part 3 - Reflections on Intuitive Eating from Principles to Practice

#2 - Learn & Grow Part 2 - Extreme Exercise Is Unnecessary

#1 - Learn & Grow Part 1 - Ditching 'Diet Brain' for Body Kindness