100% Healthy-ish

We haven't just absorbed stories about how much we should weigh, we also absorb stories about the type of beautiful we should be. What's the story? Where does it come from? How does it control us as women?

Today we’re are turning the tides - exploring two MAJOR things that need to happen if we are to shed our old stories about weight, body, beauty and health and write a new, incredible, story!!!

In this episode jill discusses the moment we realize our bodies don't fit the current standard. She explores what happens when we begin, as young girls or young women, to internalize cultural messaging around weight, bodies, and beauty - how the collateral damage goes way beyong food and body image issues.

In today's episode Jill will discuss how weight and health have been inappropriately linked, why linking the two together is so detrimental, and why it's triggering when women step out into the world in non-conforming bodies and claim to be healthy.

What is the story we've been fed about beauty and weight and where did it come from? In this episode Jill explores the stories we absorb as we grow up that form our views about weight and beauty, she dives in the academic work on diet culture, and summarizes the takeaways that we've absorbed over the years.