Bitch v. Bear

This week on Bitch v. Bear, we are talking about how Diet Culture can affect parenthood. We are looking at how small humans internalize language and images about their bodies and what they should look like. We are also discovering some surprising facts we (ok, Amber) didn’t even know (thank you American health education system)....

This week on Bitch v. Bear we are diving into (the surface) of one of Amber’s puffer fish topics: the Body Mass Index. We are talking about the origins of BMI and how it has pervaded our medical society. And why we SHOULDN’T be using it as a tool to determine health!

Shout out to the Maintenance Phase podcast!

Happy Valentine’s Day! We are busting myths & misconceptions around diets this week. We are exploring some of the “facts” we hear a lot and discussing what they get wrong about diet.

We are kicking off February by talking about diet culture and disordered eating. We are exploring what disordered eating looks like, discussing some different diets, and sharing some personal stories.

For the last week of January we are discussing the importance of Mental Health check ups. OK, we’re not totally sure if they are actually a real thing, but we think they should be! We’ve been talking all month about how to take care of our physical health, but it is just as important to take care of our mental health.

This week on Bitch v. Bear, we are switching things up a little and Amber is telling us a story. It is a dark and twisted tale set in Symptom Land. Then we are discussing how to manage living in Symptom Land.

This week we are exploring what “normal” means at the doctor's office. We are looking at vital signs and what they mean, how doctor’s use those to determine if we are healthy or not, and what we can do to take charge of our own health!

This week we are exploring what Modern Medicine really means. We are also looking at what some of the alternatives are! We explore some of our own experiences with alternative medicine as well.

It’s a whole new year! We are kicking off 2024 by talking about a most dreaded topic: Doctor’s visits. Dun dun dun…. We are talking about what makes it difficult to get to a doctor, how to select the right doctor, and ways to communicate well to maximize your time with them.

It is the final episode of 2023!! And this week we are looking at ways to recover from the holidays. We also detour into a conversation about Amber’s poor planning practices…