Hello! Molly and Lottie are back with a bonus chatty episode, and updates about some of the things that have happened in the past year. Expect deep talks, funny nonsense, plenty of body image and mental health exploration and lots of nuance to make you think.

Useful stuff:

Base Camp Therapy: https://basecampchepstow.weebly.com/

Pre-order Molly’s book, Body Happy Kids: https://smarturl.it/bodyhappykids

Molly’s social enterprise (for resources, workshops and classes to promote positive body image in kids and teens) The Body Happy Org CIC – www.bodyhappyorg.com

The Outdoor Swimming Society: https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/

Outraged, why everyone is shouting and no one is talking: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/outraged-why-everyone-is-shouting-and-no-one-is-talking/9781526605078

It Isn’t Rude To Be Nude: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/it-isn-t-rude-to-be-nude/9781849767002

Hello! Welcome back to this emergency series of Body Cons.

If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of this series and still enjoy these important conversations.

We speak to Franky Shanahan from Love Audrey about her experience coping with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Register for the Body Happy Kids workshop here: https://www.freefromdiets.org/body-happy-kids-workshop

OUR GUEST:

Franky on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/loveaudrey83/

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX and bed music: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes

Hello! Welcome back to this emergency series of Body Cons.

If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of this series and still enjoy these important conversations.

This episode is introduced by Lottie, while Molly interviews founder of Get Lit retreats, meditation, angel and energy guide Aisha Carrington. Prepare to listen and feel very relaxed afterwards.

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Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

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ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Lottie’s recommendation: Untamed by Glennon Doyle –https://www.amazon.co.uk/Untamed-Stop-pleasing-start-living/dp/1785043358/

OUR GUEST:

Aisha Carrington – @aishacarrington_ – https://www.instagram.com/aishacarrington_/ | Get Lit Retreat – @getlitretreat – https://www.instagram.com/getlitretreat

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX and bed music: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes

Welcome back to this emergency series of Body Cons!

If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of this series and still enjoy these important conversations.

This episode is introduced by Molly, while Lottie interviews the brilliant Caoimhe Green and Tanisha Barrett from OTR, a mental health social movement for young people living in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. They chat body image during the pandemic, the pressures and challenges young people aged 11-25 are facing in these areas, along with useful resources and places to find support.

This episode does come with a Trigger Warning as some of the content discusses eating disorders and disordered eating.

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Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

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ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Molly’s tip this week: Ellyn Satter on “Normal eating” – https://www.ellynsatterinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/What-is-normal-eating-Secure.pdf

OUR GUESTS:

Caoimhe Green and Tanisha Barrett

OTR (Off The Record) – https://www.otrbristol.org.uk

Shameless (OTR Body image group) – https://www.otrbristol.org.uk/what-we-do/shameless/

Shameless Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/otrshameless/

Dove Self Esteem project – https://www.dove.com/uk/dove-self-esteem-project.html

Mysenseofself – Diana Anti Bullying and ASOS project – https://www.antibullyingpro.com/asos-resources

PSHE Association body image resources – https://www.pshe-association.org.uk/search/node/body%20image

Curvesome Yoga – http://www.curvesomeyoga.com

Jessamyn Stanley yoga – http://jessamynstanley.com

Rupi Kaur moth poem – https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8872910-representation-is-vital-otherwise-the-butterfly-surrounded-by-a-group

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX and bed music: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes

Welcome back to another emergency episode of Body Cons!

We’re here to help you navigate diet culture, the changing food landscape, anxiety and all the other things that may be triggering bad body image during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you’ve listened to our previous two series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of this series and still enjoy these important conversations.

This episode is introduced by Lottie, while Molly did the interview with this week’s guest. We’re joined by Sylvia Mac, founder of Love Disfigure. Sylvia is a child burns survivor, body image campaigner, inspirational speaker and diverse model and she talked to us about her own story and how her past experience has helped her to stay positive and practise gratitude in these current unsettled times.

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

Sign up to the newsletter: http://www.bodyconspodcast.com/

ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Lottie’s tips this week –

Louise Green – Big Girl Fit: https://www.louisegreen.ca/ | Practise with Dana – https://studio.danafalsetti.com/ | Joyn Joyful Movement app – https://www.joyn.co/

OUR GUEST:

Sylvia Mac on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/love_disfigure/ | Love Disfigure website – https://www.lovedisfigure.com/

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX and bed music: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes

Hello! We are back for an emergency series of Body Cons to help you navigate diet culture, the changing food landscape, anxiety and all the other things that may be triggering bad body image during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of this series and still enjoy these important conversations.

This episode is introduced by Lottie, while Molly did the interview with this week’s guest. We’re joined by Becky Amoi Young, founder of Anti Diet Riot Club. Becky discusses body image during a pandemic, ways to stay positive and shares lots of useful tips and resources.

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

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ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Lottie’s tip this week: The Blurt Foundation – https://www.blurtitout.org/

OUR GUEST:

Find Anti Diet Riot Club online – http://antidietriotclub.co.uk/

Anti Diet Riot Club on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/antidietriotclub

Becky’s tips:

Health At Every Size website – https://haescommunity.com/

Christy Harrison – https://christyharrison.com/

Laura Thomas PhD – http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/

Sonya Renee Taylor – https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX and bed music: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes

Hello! We are back for an emergency series of Body Cons to help you navigate diet culture, the changing food landscape, anxiety and all the other things that may be triggering bad body image during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each episode has been recorded remotely so please excuse the less than perfect sound quality.

Today we discuss coping with the changing food landscape and routines while in recovery from eating disorders and disordered eating, with award winning mental health campaigner and author Hope Virgo.

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

Sign up to the newsletter: http://www.bodyconspodcast.com/

ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Inside, a Guide (by Josie George): http://www.bimblings.co.uk/2020/03/15/inside-a-guide/

Tim Ferris with Jack Cornfield – How to find peace amidst COVID-19: https://tim.blog/2020/03/12/jack-kornfield-covid19/

Tara Brach – Facing pandemic fears with an awake heart: https://www.tarabrach.com/facing-pandemic-fears/

Yoga With Adriene: https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene

Body Happy Kids resources (#FreeFromDiets): https://www.freefromdiets.org/resources

Body Happy Kids email zine during pandemic (#FreeFromDiets): https://www.freefromdiets.org/subscribe

Unmind app: https://home.unmind.com/

Hub of Hope: https://home.unmind.com/

OUR GUEST:

Hope Virgo on Instagram @hopevirgo_ : https://www.instagram.com/hopevirgo_/

Hope Virgo on Twitter @hopevirgo : https://twitter.com/hopevirgo

Hope’s website: http://hopevirgo.com/

Hope’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Tall-Little-Girl-Inspirational/dp/1911246151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500803622&sr=8-1&keywords=stand+tall+little+girl

Hope’s #DumpTheScales campaign: https://www.change.org/p/eating-disorders-are-not-just-about-weight-dumpthescales

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)...

Consider this your antidote to Christmas diet culture! We’ve brought together some of our stand-out moments from the past two series of Body Cons to create a bumper Christmas special. Best listened to while enjoying a mince pie (or 15).

We’ll be back with more body love goodness and amazing guests in 2020 but in the meantime, merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Love,

Molly & Lottie xx

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

Sign up to the newsletter: http://www.bodyconspodcast.com/

ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Molly’s favourite mince pie recipe: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2174/unbelievably-easy-mince-pies

Lottie’s favourite mince pie recipe: https://www.nigella.com/recipes/star-topped-mince-pies

FEATURED GUEST:

Nadia Craddock – Centre for Appearance Research: https://www1.uwe.ac.uk/hls/research/appearanceresearch.aspx | @nadia.craddock

Barefaced TV – https://barefacedtv.com/ | @barefacedtv

Jules Von Hepp – https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/jules-von-hep | @julesvonhep

Hayley McLean – https://www.sparklesandstretchmarks.com/ | @sparklesandstretchmarks

Lala Love – @lalaloveofficial

Sas Petherick – https://www.saspetherick.com/ | @saspetherick

Jada Sezer – https://www.insanitygroup.com/client/jada-sezer/ | @jadasezer

Laura Thomas, PhD – http://www.laurathomasphd.co.uk/ @laurathomasphd

Natalie Ambersley – https://beingjustus.co.uk/ | @being_just_us

Dinah Gibbons – https://www.bodykindfestival.com/ | @bodykindfestival

Tally Rye – http://tallyrye.co.uk/ | @tallyrye

Stevie Blaine – https://bopoboy.com/ | @bopo.boy

Imogen Fox – @the_feeding_of_the_fox

Lauren Mahon – https://girlvscancer.co.uk/ | @iamlaurenmahon

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves,

What’s the link between sex and mental health? Why is sex still a taboo subject in so many circles? What does it mean to be “sex positive”? What’s non-monogamy and why do we even need to know? We discuss all this and more in this special final episode of the second season of Body Cons, with sex educator, artist and body positive crusader Ruby Rare.

This is a bit of a feature length episode as we also share a deep dive into the BBC Two documentary Who Are You Calling Fat?, as well as some interesting thoughts on tattoos and body image, and a letter written by Nick Cave which is guaranteed to make you cry.

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

Sign up to the newsletter: http://www.bodyconspodcast.com/

ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

Tally Rye – Train Happy: An Intuitive Exercise Plan for Life, pre-order here: https://amzn.to/36NB1rf (affiliate link)

GOING UP / GOING DOWN –

(Molly’s Going DOWN) Who Are You Calling Fat? – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009tvl

(Lottie’s Going UP) Nick Cave – The Red Hand Files – How Should I Behave? https://www.theredhandfiles.com/how-should-i-behave/

THIS WEEK’S GUEST:

Ruby Rare on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/rubyrare/ | Ruby Rare on Twitter – https://twitter.com/_rubyrare | Body Love Sketch Club – https://www.instagram.com/bodylovesketchclub/

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes

Magazines often get the blame for making women feel insecure, promoting unrealistic body types and narrow beauty ideals, and not being inclusive in the bodies they present in their pages. But what’s it really like in 2019? And what’s it like to actually work on a high end fashion magazine?

Terri Waters is a fashion journalist who worked at multiple glossy magazines, before leaving the industry to set up independent body-positive publication The Unedit.

In this interview Terri talks candidly about what it’s like to work on these magazines behind-the-scenes, how it made her feel about her own body, some of the examples of airbrushing she personally witnessed, and what inspired The Unedit in the first place.

GET IN TOUCH:

Email: [email protected] |Tweet: @bodyconspodcast | Instagram: @bodyconspodcast

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ALL THE JUICY STUFF:

GOING UP / GOING DOWN –

(Lottie’s Going UP) The Mind Geek Instagram account – https://www.instagram.com/themindgeek/

(Molly’s Going UP) The Outsiders TED talk series – https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/35512

Lottie’s TED Talk recommendations: Amy Tan’s TED talk – Where does creativity hide? https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_tan_on_creativity?language=en | Cameron Russel’s TED talk – Looks aren’t everything, believe me I know – https://www.ted.com/talks/cameron_russell_looks_aren_t_everything_believe_me_i_m_a_model?language=en | Elizabeth Gilbert shows up for… everything – a TED interview – https://www.ted.com/talks/the_ted_interview_elizabeth_gilbert_shows_up_for_everything?language=en

THIS WEEK’S GUEST:

The Unedit – https://www.the-unedit.com/ | The Unedit on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/theunedit/

YOUR HOSTS:

Molly Forbes: @mollyjforbes | Lottie Storey: @lottie_storey

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Artwork by Hannah Broadway @hannahkbroadway

Music: Teeth White by The Staves, used under license from Warner Music (PRS & PPL)

Sound FX: Epidemic Sound

Produced by Molly Forbes