100% Healthy-ish

Building on her ‘Process over Perfection’ philosophy Jillian explores the idea of wholeness vs wellness - via excerpts from Emily Nagoski’s new book: Burnout.

In this episode, Jill discusses the story that we hold weight to protect ourselves – that it is ‘padding’ from the world. She talks the complexities of weight and how that story line is detrimental to making peace with our bodies and pursuing healing on the deepest level.

In this episode, Jill chats about Emily Nagoski’s new book: Burnout, how are Body loathing and food obsessing keeps us locked in the stress-cycle, and how to (literally) shake it off.

In this episode, Jill questions the way she talks about bodies and what it means to have a ‘good’ relationship with your body.

In this episode, Jill parallels the work of Esther Perel – couples therapist - does to repair the relationship between a couples with the work she does to help women repair the relationship they have with their bodies and themselves.

Can there be a pro woman definition of beauty? In this episode Jill reads from Naomi Wolf’s book, The Beauty Myth and explores the concepts of authentic, individually defined, and internally motivated beauty.

In this episode, Jill talks about why a capsule wardrobe is your very best friend when you are making peace with food and your body – and also why it’s great for “body fluctuators”, like Jill!

A brief look at how doing body image work is different from being body positive (or doing the work of the Body positive movement) and who it can be hurtful/offensive for the body positive movement when those doing body image work co-opt the term “Body positive”. Note: this is not a full breakdown of this issue, by any means. It’s really just a start to the conversation, as Jill has seen it, and some food for thought.

Exploring hierarchies in food and if there is any way to truly talk about food in a neutral way - while acknowledging that foods differ in nutrients?

When it comes to your struggles with food and body, are you reacting or responding? Are you able to minimize a reaction? In this episode, Jill offers a tangible technique she learned from Brené Brown for slowing things down when we get “limbic” (aka reactive and emotional).