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The Wendy De Rosa SessionsReconnecting to Body Wisdom with Ilene LeshinskyOur bodies hold innate wisdom that can guide us to health and well-being. However, in western culture, the mind is elevated. What we think is more important than what we feel. As a result, we often ignore body messages and feelings that present themselves even before a thought occurs. To really understand what is happening in our lives, we need to change the paradigm. Our bodies are going to communicate first! Your body is your master teacher.So, our job is to learn our body’s language, to translate the messages and to...
2022-11-0939 min
Sound Bites A Nutrition PodcastBody Image & Your Relationship with Food – Ilene LeshinskyIt's no secret that body image and self esteem are closely related and that many women (and men) feel dissatisfied with their body shape, size and/or weight. A person's relationship with their body and with food can have a significant impact on quality of life. Body image disorders, eating disorders and disordered eating are too often the result of body dissatisfaction and chronic dieting. Tune in to this episode with guest Ilene Leshinsky, MSW, to learn about: the history and trends in weight and diet culture how a woman's sizes relates to her "currency" the...
2022-08-301h 09
Health Hope Harmony: A Mental Health Podcast Redefining Health Restoring Hope Reaching HarmonyEp 29 Reflections of a Fat Girl with Ilene LeshinskySend us a textHey Friend!!Welcome back to the show! In this episode I am joined by Ilene Leshinsky, a fellow psychotherapist in the non-diet space.Ilene is the best-selling author of Reflections of a Fat Girl and the founder of Find Body Freedom (formerly BodySense), a program for women who want to change their relationship with their bodies. For twenty-eight years, Ilene has practiced as a psychotherapist and body image specialist in New York, Massachusetts and other areas online throughout the United States. Now, she works with women of all ages w...
2021-12-3041 min
Come Home with Melissa Costello17: Reflections of a Fat Girl with Body Image Specialist, Ilene LeshinskyAs women, many of us struggle with loving and accepting our bodies. Culturally we are programmed by what we see in the media and by diet culture, and it’s detrimental to the way we view ourselves. In today’s episode, Melissa dives deep into body acceptance with Ilene Leshinksy, a psychotherapist, teacher, body image specialist, creator of Find Body Freedom, and author of "Reflections of a Fat Girl.” Ilene deemed herself a fat girl many years ago because of what she heard growing up from her peers as well as her parents and grandparents . Messages...
2021-09-3046 min
The Dragonfly ConnectionReflections with Ilene Leshinsky"Your body will lead you to health and wellbeing"
For three decades, Ilene struggled with
Body image, weight, and her relationship with food.
During a big chunk of that time, she also practiced as a clinical social worker, working primarily with women who were struggling with issues similar to hers. They came to her with feelings of depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, and unresolved traumas. They hoped that if they could change their bodies, all of these things would magically disappear or at least become less significant.
In her own words, she says, "th...
2021-05-1946 min
The Erin Strayer ShowDiscover Your Innate Body Wisdom with Ilene LeshinskyRegardless of your age, demographic, religion or your current size, I think it’s fair to say that we as women ALL at some point or another have struggled... or still struggle,.. with our body image, what we look like in and out of clothes, and loving the skin we have been given. Finding freedom from the conflicts ingrained in us from our environment and mainstream media has kept psychotherapists, social workers and pews filled for years with people looking for answers. In 2016, 46% of ALL ADVERTISING on any platform was for diet pills. And just after most of us have d...
2021-02-1131 min
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