Today's solo is inspired by a question that recently came into my Q&A box. This definitely is not the first time someone has asked me for my thoughts on this topic, but the way this listener asked the question totally inspired this episode.
“Can you talk more about the differences between having a wellness mindset and a diet-punishment mindset?” What a fantastic question, and I know for many of you, this is something you’ve dealt with, and I know I have dealt with it on many occasions as well.
I talk about how healing sometimes means taking steps back to unlearn and unpack fatphobic norms, the roots of diet culture, the way fatphobia shows up in medical and health fields, what is wellness, and the difference between habits and emotions.
In this episode, we cover:
- We live in a fatphobic society so there’s a lot of unlearning we have to do [0:52]
- What is diet culture [5:49]
- Focusing on BMI and other body image issues [10:46]
- Without the diet industry, there would be greater body acceptance [17:26]
- What is wellness? [20:37]
- Letting our thoughts take over control [24:54]
- Habits and emotions are separate things [28:56]
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