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Ijeoma Oluo's So You Want to Talk About Race is a great starting point for listening, learning and taking meaningful action.

I also recommend White Fragility by Beverly DiAngelo to any white person who wants to do better at creating change. Books to talk to kids about race. For race and health, I recommend Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia. Dr. Sabrina Strings was on the Body Kindness podcast: Part 1, Part 2.

This episode was first aired in January 2018.

Ijeoma Oluo wants us to talk about race. In her new book, So You Want to Talk About Race (Seal Press) she breaks down the barriers and explains, in simple terms and with lively examples, key concepts of privilege, intersectionality, microagressions, cultural appropriation, and more.

In our podcast chat, Ijeoma helps us embrace the connections between body positivity, the anti-diet movement, and race and class issues that aren't often discussed in these important spaces. Regarding intersectionality, she says "It's the nature of privilege to prioritize the people at the top, whose needs are almost met. Intersectionality says that you pause and say 'my needs are not the only needs'. Including the needs of less privileged people helps more people, not just a select few at the top."

She says "we live in a country that upholds the ideal that we aren't allowed to talk about race and not talking is THE problem." Ijeoma wants us to do what we can to look at everyday opportunities to create change in our culture.

An editor-at-large at The Establishment, Ijeoma's work has been featured in NY Magazine, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and more. She has talked about race on BBC, NPR and CBS Evening News, as well as in countless offices, universities, conferences, and internet forums.

Follow Ijeoma: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Book

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Bernie Salazar guests with an update on how he is changing the conversation with his primary care doctors.

He's better at boundaries and aiming to keep the focus on medical needs, but the doctors still clearly struggle to understand what it means to provide weight inclusive medical care.

He shares his labs with me again because he still wants my "input" (read: validation) that he is justified in his full commitment to practicing Body Kindness and never dieting again.

We hope you find this conversation and links below helpful. They are some of our best resources you may need for doctors visits.

(Content Note: We recorded 12/19 but delayed the launch planned for early March due to COVID-19 chaos.)

Here's a summary of what we discussed:

• I went to this new doctor visit with more confidence. I shared what I was looking for in a Dr./Patient relationship. I was honest about where I felt I was.
• I am so tired of being talked at instead of having constructive conversations with medical doctors. I realize nothing will change until I speak up.
• I'm changing as a person and asking for more in my visits. I am able to communicate what I need with respect. I am looking for a partnership in regards to my health rather than someone telling me what I should or shouldn't be doing.

You'll also get a replay of our first conversation about Bernie's return to doctor visits after years of avoidance due to weight stigma and shame he experienced. This remains one of our most popular episodes.

Helpful Resources

Body Kindness episodes

Episode 124: Eliminating weight stigma from medical care with Jennifer Gaudiani MD, author of Sick Enough

Episode 108: How Weight Stigma Harms Culture and Excludes Higher Weight People from IVF, Hip Replacements and More, with Fiona Willer

Episode 71: Athletes at Every Size and The Plight of the "Fit Fatty" with Ragen Chastain, Guinness World Record Holder, Speaker, and Fat Activist

Body Positivity and Fat Activism (series)

Articles and Blogs

What if Physicians Stopped Weighing Patients (MD who doesn't weigh patients interviewed)

What to Say at the Doctor's Office with Ragen Chastain

Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong

Training and Education

National Association for Advancement of Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) official guidelines for healthcare pros working with fat patients (brochure). Other downloadable brochures and toolkits are available, including for fitness pro, child advocacy, school curriculum and more.

Peer-reviewed curriculum designed for teaching health professionals and university students about the Health At Every Size® model.

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May is mental health awareness month and I'm focused on shows that can help you create a better life and support your well-being.

This [COVID-19] Mother's Day, women are still providing $10.8 trillion dollars a year of invisible, unpaid labor.

My guest this week Eve Rodsky says it's unsustainable and she used her Harvard degree in organizational management to develop a structure for families to redistribute all it takes to make families work. Fair Play is a bestselling book and card game Eve developed over 7 years of working with families so that collaborative conversations and planning can take place to benefit every family member.

I want to share with other women and families a way forward to improve the "family system". I'm sharing this as a beginner, someone who has read Eve Rodsky's Fair Play and who is scared to bring it up, but I'm doing it as my Mother's Day gift to myself.

I'll be honest, I'm not looking forward to spending more time on my family operations, but after recording this podcast, I can see how my efforts in approaching my family with a "systems function" viewpoint will help us all learn and grow together.

After talking with Eve (and a surprise special guest) on this podcast, I'm more hopeful and confident than ever.

Have a listen and follow my updates on weekly Instagram lives Mondays at 2 p.m. ET. I'm committing to sharing updates weekly for four weeks, though I am certain it will take much more time to adapt to Fair Play at home.

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Other Reading

• The coronavirus pandemic is creating a 'double double shift' for women. Employers must help - Op-Ed by Sharon Salzberg in Fortune
• Body Kindness COVID-19 Resources
• All COVID-19 themed Body Kindness podcasts

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About Eve Eve Rodsky is working to change society one marriage at a time with a new 21st century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering the brunt of childrearing and domestic life responsibilities regardless of whether they work outside the home.

In her New York Times bestselling book Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live), she uses her Harvard Law School training and years of organizational management experience to create a gamified life-management system to help couples rebalance all of the work it takes to run a home and allow them to reimagine their relationship, time and purpose.

Eve Rodsky received her B.A. in economics and anthropology from the University of Michigan, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. After working in foundation management at J.P. Morgan, she founded the Philanthropy Advisory Group to advise high-net worth families and charitable foundations on best practices for harmonious operations, governance and disposition of funds. In her work with hundreds of families over a decade, she realized that her expertise in family mediation, strategy, and organizational management could be applied to a problem closer to home – a system for couples seeking balance, efficiency, and peace in their home. Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Seth and their three children.

everodsky.com | Fair Play book | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

My three guests today speak from the heart about their experiences during COVID-19 as patient advocate (Lara Loverro) and healthcare workers (Shannon Hughes and Katy Gaston). We discuss the meaning of compassion "to suffer together" and how the personal and collective traumas we're experiencing challenge us to reframe our value, how and why we practice Body Kindness for resilience and personal growth.

Here's a glimpse of what what we discussed:

• Human kindness and how altruism and compassion give people the biological drive to help.
• Gratitude to healthcare workers, Shannon Hayes a physician assistant and dietitian and Katy Gatson, a clinical registered dietitian specializing in respiratory issues.
• How we can best show our gratitude and support to healthcare workers and advocate for our needs as families and communities.
• The story behind the healthcare workers counter-protests throughout the U.S.

About Lara Lara Loverro is holistic health and lifestyle coach. She works with individuals to help them reconnect with food, their bodies and their lives. She is a Certified Health Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and Certified Personal Trainer. Website | Instagram | Facebook: Recovery from Disordered Eating and Diet Culture with Lara

About Shannon Shannon Hughes, MMS, RDN, PA-C is a registered dietitian and physician assistant. These days she wears two professional hats in her career. One is as a pediatric physician assistant at a large children's hospital where she specializes in Infectious Diseases. But following her passion as a Registered Dietitian she founded The Lifestyle Nutrition RD, a nutrition and weight-inclusive private practice. Here she specializes in helping individuals transform their health and well-being through a mindfulness-based approach to self care including finding freedom with food and their bodies. She believes everyone, no matter what their size, deserves compassionate care and to live their life unapologetically. Website | Instagram

About Katy Katy Gaston is a registered dietitian working as a clinical RD in a long term acute care hospital in San Francisco. She also has a private practice where she sees clients virtually with a focus on intuitive eating and healing relationships with food. Website | Instagram

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Helpful links

• Body Kindness COVID-19 Resources
• All COVID-19 themed Body Kindness podcasts

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Has your fertility or medical care been delayed or disrupted due to COVID-19? My guest today is Nicola Salmon, author of Fat and Fertile. We discuss how her work as a fat positive fertility coach has changed dramatically in the face of COVID-19. You'll learn how she is helping people through and it just may help you grieve the losses you're feeling at this time, fertility or not. Plus she shares insight on her own self-care practices as a higher weight person feeling vulnerable (thank you, crappy weight stigma misinformation and nasty memes). Nicola shares her unwavering commitment to her emotional well-being during quarantine through gentle self-care practices.

About Nicola Nicola Salmon is a fat-positive and feminist fertility coach and author of "Fat and Fertile".

She advocates for change in how fat people are treated whilst accessing help with their fertility.

Nicola supports fat people who want to get pregnant using her unique FAT+ve fertility framework to find their own version of health without diets, advocate for their bodies, relearn how to trust their body and believe in their ability to get pregnant in their current body.

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Book: Fat and Fertile

Helpful links

• Body Kindness COVID-19 Resources
• All COVID-19 themed Body Kindness podcasts

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Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings. In addition to my free program, I'm sending out free weekly emails of support and resources for body kindness practices and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. These will be created directly in response to requests from Body Kindness readers and podcast listeners. Sign up as a Body Kindness Insider here to get access.

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

My guest is Lara Loverro, a health coach, certified intuitive eating counselor, and she's a professional mentee of mine. Importantly, Lara is a resident of New York and her mother is COVID-19 positive (over two weeks on a ventilator). Her teen son is struggling with anxiety related to the trauma. Lara shares how she and her family are coping and her recommendations for coping with anxiety.

About Lara Lara Loverro is holistic health and lifestyle coach. She works with individuals to help them reconnect with food, their bodies and their lives. She is a Certified Health Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and Certified Personal Trainer. Website | Instagram | Facebook: Recovery from Disordered Eating and Diet Culture with Lara

Coping with Anxiety Self-Care Checklist

• Create a simple daily routine and schedule to follow (this can help minimize overthinking and hustle mindset when you aren't doing enough).
• Limit media consumption (most all news, but especially COVID-19 news)
• Bond with family at home and distance (apps like Marco Polo, Facetime, Zoom)
• Create a self-care menu of activities you enjoy that can help relax you
• Sleep enough in the evening
• Get help if you need it. Talk to your doctor or find a psychologist. Telehealth sessions work to help you regulate emotion.

Helpful links

• Covid-19 meal support happening on Instagram - follow @COVID19EatingSupport
• Body Kindness Episode 144 - Resilience Practices for Anxiety and Body Shame During COVID-19 with Nicola Haggett

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Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings. In addition to my free program, I'm sending out free weekly emails of support and resources for body kindness practices and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. These will be created directly in response to requests from Body Kindness readers and podcast listeners. Sign up as a Body Kindness Insider here to get access.

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Practicing Body Kindness during COVID-19 is all about resilience skills as we navigate this collective trauma. While some people are finding "humor" in memes or chats about social distancing-related weight gain or the supposed "quarantine 15," these messages are fatphobic and harmful to people struggling with mental health and body image. Nicola Haggett our ideas for setting boundaries, creating self-care plans, and well-being enhancement that can help you cope with fears.

About Nicola Nicola Haggett (she/her) is a Body Liberation Mentor and Intuitive Eating Coach. She helps you to heal your relationship with food, unlearn body shame, and live your fullest life right now in the body you're in.

Nicola describes herself as fat (a word she has happily reclaimed), and does her best work with folks who are also in higher weight bodies.

She believes that it's possible to nourish, care for, and build trust with your body, despite living in a culture that tells you that you need to shrink to fit in.

Website | Instagram

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Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings. In addition to my free program, I'm sending out free weekly emails of support and resources for body kindness practices and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. These will be created directly in response to requests from Body Kindness readers and podcast listeners. Sign up as a Body Kindness Insider here to get access.

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

These times are truly unprecedented. For the past month I have been allowing myself to be human, showing up for my family, my clients (many hospital workers, displaced students, and parents turned home schoolers, many with disordered eating and anxiety exacerbated by the social distancing required). I have been asking Body Kindness book readers and podcast listeners about ways (if anything) I can uniquely contribute to our collective well-being during this pandemic. Mostly, everyone needed permission for things to change, and time to adjust. We are still in this phase of the journey. It's ok to be here. (We need all the self compassion we can muster now) Many questions have been posed to me in my free Body Kindness Facebook group and I want to share them with anyone who needs it. Over the next few weeks I'll be emailing questions, responses, and useful resources for people who are interested in the ways the practice of body kindness can help ground you, lift you up, connect you to others, and avoid burnout. You can get these emails for free at BodyKindnessBook.com/start along with a free virtual introduction to body kindness and a free book club. On the podcast I'll be re-sharing some of the episodes I think will be most helpful for you at this difficult and painful time. ===

Burnout is the stress resilience book I'm recommending to friends and clients from now on. This two-part podcast series with Emily and Amelia Nagoski will explain why. We all have stress, but we aren't all completing the stress cycle, which can have real health consequences. Learn about "human giver syndrome" and why the opposite is not "taker syndrome"— which is what I used to think. Find out how the patriarchy... ughhhh plays a role in women's burnout.

Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., is a sex educator and author of Come As You Are: The surprising new science that will transform your sex life. Her job is to travel all over the world, training therapists, medical professionals, college students, and the general public about the science of women's sexual wellbeing.

Amelia Nagoski, D.M.A. (it stands for Doctorate of Musical Arts), is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music at Western New England University. Her job is to run around waving her arms and making funny noises and generally doing whatever it takes to help singers get in touch with their internal experience.

'Burnout' book | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

Links mentioned

• Burnout: The secret to solving the stress cycle
• Emily's previous appearance on Body Kindness: Why Women Fake Orgasms
• Layla Saad — Me and White Supremacy on pre-sale
• Get the episode transcript - bit.ly/bkind117

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Let's talk about eating disorders that are born from culture and hidden in plain sight. My guest to share her personal story is Gloria Oladipo, a 20-year-old Black woman who developed an eating disorder in elementary school that went undiagnosed for over a decade. A student at Cornell University, Gloria also works as a freelance writer and has been published in Teen Vogue, Healthline, Wear Your Voice, Bitch Media, Bustle, and other publications.

Here's a short summary of what we discussed and other resources you may find helpful in the topic of eating disorders:

• Stories of marginalized identities with eating disorders are common, but they are treated like they are rare.
• Well-intended health information is bred in teachers and school communities and it's harmful to almost all kids by perpetuating weight bias, body shame, and teaching disordered behaviors with food and movement.
• Why it took so long for a grown up (a college therapist) to affirm Gloria's body and encourage eating disorder treatment.
• The "sad reality" that binge eating disorder treatment markets weight loss outcomes and why it must stop.
• Why lack of access to helping professionals of color and size is problematic for eating disorder recovery. (For more on this listen to Episode 77: Diversity in Dietetics – Why cultural competency isn't enough to improve health care with Tamara Melton, RDN, Co-Founder of Diversify Dietetics)

Resources

• Full list of NEDA resources, including a collaboration with Instagram, a video, links, and more.
• NEDA is doing amazing policy work for legislation for eating disorder education and resources. Learn about it and support The Eating Disorders Prevention in Schools Act
• Health is doing a series on misdiagnosed eating disorders. Hear from Savala Trepczynski The Real Reasons Why My Disordered Eating Went Unnoticed by Almost Everyone and from Shira Rosenbluth: I Had an Eating Disorder for 21 Years—but Doctors Wouldn't Diagnose Me With Anorexia Because of My Weight

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About GloriaGloria Oladipo is a 20-year-old Black woman and eating disorder survivor. She works as a freelance writer and has been published in Teen Vogue, Healthline, Wear Your Voice, Bitch Media, Bustle, and other publications. She usually writes about her personal experiences at the intersections of mental health, race, and gender as well as politics, pop culture, and TV/Film. Moreover, Gloria is a current junior at Cornell University studying Government (with a minor in Arabic), English (with a minor in Creative Writing), and Performing Arts.

Gloria has struggled with an eating disorder for over five years and began seeking recovery her freshmen year of college. She uses her writing to speak candidly about her experiences with her eating disorder and co-morbid illnesses as well as her experience in the eating disorder diagnosis and treatment process as a Black woman. In her free time, Gloria enjoys reading, writing, drawing, watching plays, and generally reconnecting with her passions as she seeks recovery.

Website | Instagram | Twitter

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

I'm joined by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti editors of a new anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. We discuss why we need a book about believing women's experiences are as credible and reliable as men. Believing women starts with believing ourselves and caring for our personal well-being.

• Samantha Irby contributes an essay about her chronic illness which you can read on Elle.
• Anuradha Bhagwati, author of the memoir Unbecoming, writes about the disbelief of her disability from countless others.
• Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her, writes about the lack of C-level women in technology jobs and how it leaves us more vulnerable to online harassment.

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About JaclynJaclyn Friedman is an educator, activist, and the force behind four hit books: Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (one of Publishers' Weekly's Top 100 Books of 2009), What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety, Unscrewed: Women, Sex, Power & How to Stop Letting the System Screw Us All, and the forthcoming anthology Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World. Her podcast, also called Unscrewed, is paving new paths to sexual liberation, and was named one of the best sex podcasts by both Marie Claire and Esquire. Friedman is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the US and beyond. She has been a guest on the Today Show, Nightline, PBS News Hour, Call Your Girlfriend, and numerous other audio and TV shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, Vox, Refinery 29, The Washington Post, Glamour, and The Guardian.

Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | Podcast

About JessicaJessica Valenti - called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world - is a columnist for Medium and a feminist author. Her most recent book, Sex Object: A Memoir, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2004, Jessica founded the award winning blog Feministing.com, which Columbia Journalism Review called "head and shoulders above almost any writing on women's issues in mainstream media." Jessica's articles have topped the most-read lists at The New York Times, The Atlantic, the Guardian, and The Washington Post. She's also written for Salon, Bitch, Ms. Magazine and The Toast. Jessica has been interviewed on The Colbert Report, profiled in The New York Times magazine, and is a widely-sought after speaker.

Website | Instagram | Twitter

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Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here!

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Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.