Body Kindness

Happy Holidays! We are closing out 2018 by talking with readers about how they used Body Kindness as a way to break free from years of dieting and body shame. Tune in and get inspired as you contemplate your next step in healing your relationship with food, movement, and self care. You can't hate yourself healthy but with Body Kindness you can create a better life.

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Body Kindness is available as an audiobook from December 25th, 2018! Get Body Kindness as an audiobook on Audible and wherever audiobooks are sold. Click here to order with with some special bonus gifts from me!

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

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The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9

Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

The first historical study of diet books, Dr Adrienne Rose Bitar's book Diet and the Disease of Civilization examines how four popular plans -- Paleo, biblical, primitive, and detox diets -- reflect and shape our social world.

Bitar categorized 17,000 diet books based on their titles. All of them, from Paleo to the "biblical diets" and even the first diet book by William Banting, center around the conversation of who are we, what do we eat, and why? The texts claim that we have fallen as a people and we need to regain that "original health" through diet.

About Adrienne Adrienne Rose Bitar is a diet and food historian and recent author of Diet and the Disease of Civilization. The first historical study of diet books, Bitar's book examines how four popular plans -- Paleo, biblical, primitive, and detox diets -- reflect and shape our social world. Previous food publications include studies of competitive eating, food art, and the Paleo diet. In the popular press, she has published on migrant child farm labor, locavorism, and weight-gain diets.

Bitar earned her PhD from Stanford in 2016 and is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in History at Cornell. Bitar's recent research project is on fake meat and she teaches courses on food studies and the history of health and fitness culture.

Website | Twitter | Book

Links mentioned

• Adrienne's WIRED article: The Government's Role in the Rise of Lab-Grown Meat
• Body Kindness Episode 100: Diet Culture Exists Because We Don't Want to Die with Michelle Allison the Fat Nutritionist
• Body Kindness Episode 85: Doing Harm – The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick with feminist author Maya Dusenbery
• New York Times: What We Know About Diet and Weight Loss: After decades of research, there are shockingly few firm conclusions.

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here.

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Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062

Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT

The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9

Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

You already know that it's not easy to make changes to your habits. At all. It requires serious effort and a compassionate mindset as you try, mess up, and try again.

In the next episode of our "body kindness for beginners" Learn and Grow series, Bernie and I discuss what is usually missing from the "new habit equation" and we share our own struggles with habits and how we're working our way through them.

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here.

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Hooray! Body Kindness is coming to your ears on December 25th, 2018 Body Kindness will soon be available as an audiobook on Audible and wherever audiobooks are sold. Click here and sign up to be notified as soon as the audiobook is available for presale, along with some special bonus gifts from me!

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Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062

Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT

The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9

Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

Weight stigma, problems with our culture and the biases we carry about higher weight people harms their health. One pathway is through internalized stigma that elevates a person's worry and anxiety about how they will be treated by the people and the physical spaces in this world (think comfortable seats - or the right to sit!) Founder of the International Weight Stigma Conference, Dr. Angela Meadows and I discuss.

About Angela Angela Meadows, Ph.D. is a health and social psychologist specializing in the relationship between experienced and internalized weight stigma and health and wellbeing in higher-weight individuals. She is particularly interested in determinants of response to stigma - why some people internalise negative beliefs whereas others resist devaluation. She has published a number of articles and book chapters and has been interviewed by numerous media outlets internationally. She writes on issues around weight and health for print and digital media. In 2013, she founded the Annual International Weight Stigma Conference.

Website: Never Diet Again | Angela's academic website | Twitter | Facebook

Links mentioned

• Angela's Huffington Post articles
• Angela's articles on The Conversation
• Research study: Relationship between low cardiorespiratory fitness and mortality in normal-weight, overweight, and obese men (JAMA)
• Research study: Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift (Nutrition Journal)

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Hooray! Body Kindness is coming to your ears on December 25th, 2018 Body Kindness will soon be available as an audiobook on Audible and wherever audiobooks are sold. Click here and sign up to be notified as soon as the audiobook is available for presale, along with some special bonus gifts from me!

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here.

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Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062

Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT

The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9

Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

Psychology research in terror management theory has shown that when people are primed with thoughts of mortality, their behaviors change, but not necessarily in helpful ways. Tune in as I talk with dietitian Michelle Alison (the Fat Nutritionist) about how she was able to extrapolate Ernest Becker's research from the 1980s to today's diet culture which is full of "wellness" messages about saving your life with every bite of food, every minute of exercise, and every pill. Acceptance of mortality doesn't mean that you suddenly stop caring about your health and your life. In fact, you may appreciate and celebrate life even more after accepting that perfect health, weight, and bodies don't actually exist.

About Michelle Michelle Alison, also known online as The Fat Nutritionist. She is a registered dietitian with the College of Dietitians of Ontario. She has an accredited degree (BASc) in nutrition from Ryerson University. She works online to help people stop dieting, deal with picky eating, and relearn normal eating. She's a member of Dietitians of Canada, and the Association for Size Diversity and Health.

She completed the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics-approved Treating the Dieting Casualty workshop, where she learned how to teach people eating competence. Prior to becoming a RD, Michelle worked in hospitals as a nutrition supervisor, and then a clinical diet tech. All told, she's worked in nutrition for over a decade.

Website | Twitter | Facebook

Links mentioned

• How Goop's Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow's Company Worth $250 Million (New York Times)
• Eating Toward Immortality (The Atlantic)
• People Obsessed With Wellness Can't Accept That We're All Gonna Die (Tonic)
• Body Kindness Episode 16: The Religion of Diet Culture

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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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Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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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

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Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions

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Subscribe to the podcast We're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendatio? E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

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Join the Facebook group Continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there!

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.

If you're new to #BodyKindness our podcast mini-series, Learn and Grow, was made for you. Bernie Salazar and Rebecca Scritchfield reflect on Bernie's early days saying "bye-bye" to his relationship with The Biggest Loser and diet culture forever! In Episode 5, you'll hear us discuss mindfulness and the beautiful and subtle ways in which Bernie has been able to embrace mindfulness and emotion regulation skills in his life.

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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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Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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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

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Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions

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Subscribe to the podcast We're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendation? E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

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Join the Facebook group Continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there!

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.

In the first of a short series looking at research and weight stigma, I talk to Dr Jeffery Hunger, a postdoctoral scholar in Health Psychology at UCLA.

As a social and health psychologist, Dr. Hunger is interested in using insights from psychology to understand and ultimately improve the health of stigmatized groups (e.g., heavier individuals, racial and sexual minorities).

We have a great conversation about how stigma impacts mental and physical health and why stigmatizing weight should never be used as a health promotion tool. We also talk about the need for research on weight stigma/body image and health to be more intersectional.

About Jeffery Jeffery Hunger is a postdoctoral scholar in Health Psychology at UCLA. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota, master's degree in psychological research from CSU Fullerton, and PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from UC Santa Barbara. As a social and health psychologist, Dr. Hunger is interested in using insights from psychology to understand and ultimately improve the health of stigmatized groups (e.g., heavier individuals, racial and sexual minorities). Dr. Hunger's research is published in top outlets across psychology, public health, and medicine, and has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, NPR, and more.

Website | Twitter

Recent papers

• Hunger, J.M., & Tomiyama, A.J. (2018). Weight labeling and disordered eating among adolescent females: Evidence from the NHLBI Growth and Health Study. Journal of Adolescent Health.
• Hunger, J.M., Blodorn, A., Major, B., & Miller, C. (2018). The psychological and physiological effects of interacting with an anti-fat peer. Body Image.

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here.

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Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062

Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT

The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9

Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

If you're new to #BodyKindness our podcast mini-series, Learn and Grow, was made for you. Bernie Salazar and Rebecca Scritchfield reflect on Bernie's early days saying "bye-bye" to his relationship with The Biggest Loser and diet culture forever! In Part 4, you'll hear us discuss emotional eating, feeling like you're addicted to food, and why it's probably NOT the case. Tune in to this pivotal episode if you'd like to learn how to get a better grasp on emotional eating.

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here.

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Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062

Are you ready for Body Kindness? Get started today with my free e-course and on-demand digital training. Learn more - http://bit.ly/2k23nbT

The New York Times Book Review calls Body Kindness 'simple and true'. Publisher's Weekly says it's 'a rousing guide to better health.' http://bit.ly/2k228t9

Watch my videos about why we need Body Kindness on YouTube. https://youtu.be/W7rATQpv5y8?list=PLQPvfnaYpPCUT9MOwHByVwN1f-bL2rn1V

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

This week I'm speaking at the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo here in Washington DC, together with neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt. Our session is called The Neurobiology of Dieting: Evidence for Improving Mental Health with a Self-Care Approach. So it's the perfect time to revisit Sandra's popular appearance on the podcast.

Sandra's TED Talk "Why dieting usually doesn't work" has been viewed over 4 million times. She really didn't want to do a TED Talk, but she was so driven to put a science-based, anti-diet book out into the world that she marched her introverted self onto the TED stage, stood on the big red dot, said what we needed to hear, and eventually landed her book 'Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss'.

Tune in and listen to Sandra and I discuss why dieting and the brain are NOT friends and why dieting will never support a human's healthy brain function. Sandra explains how and why body weight is regulated by the brain (thank goodness!) and that may mean (gasp) that fat people will be fat no matter what they do! And people who diet are likely to end up regaining the weight they lost (and then some).

We get into genetic factors that impact our weight and have a laugh at the idea of canceling our'memberships' to the BS-measurement, otherwise known as the BMI. You'll hear us talk about stress, the pros and cons of cortisol, the value of sleep, and why mindful eating is such an essential part of self-care. By the time you're done listening to this show, you will either feel super pumped about your commitment to never diet again -- OR you'll realize that dieting is a losing game, you'll probably get angry, (I did!) and then you'll get to work at creating your better life with Body Kindness.

Links mentioned

• Sandra's TED Talk
• Why Diets Don't Work - Sandra's presentation from Aspen Ideas Festival
• A selection of Sandra's articles:
  • You can't 'willpower' your way to lasting weight loss.
  • The human brain attack on weight loss
  • Why you can't lose weight on a diet

About Sandra

Sandra is the author of Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss (2016). She also coauthored two popular neuroscience books with Sam Wang. Welcome to Your Brain (2008) was named Young Adult Science Book of the Year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has been translated into twenty languages. Welcome to Your Child's Brain (2011) was published in twelve languages. She received a degree in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. After four years of research at Yale University, she joined Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research, at its founding in 1998 and was editor in chief from 2003-2008. She lives in Northern California.

Follow Sandra

Website | Twitter | Sandra's book

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Get started with Body Kindness If you're ready for more Body Kindness, the book is a great place to start. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Want signed copies or bulk orders? Click here.

Get started today with my free body kindness coaching, straight to your inbox. Sign up right here.

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Support the show Thank you to our generous supporters! We are working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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You can subscribe to Body Kindness on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! - http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1073275062

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Enjoy the show? Please subscribe and rate it. Have a show idea or guest recommendation (even yourself!) E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

Join us on the Body Kindness Podcast Facebook group where you can continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners. See you there!

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.

In the third episode of our Body Kindness for Beginners podcast series "Learn and Grow" Bernie and I reflect on ways in which the practice of intuitive eating has helped him reject dieting and we discover new growth opportunities going forward. Tune in if you've ever felt confused about what the heck intuitive eating is and why it may be exactly what you need in your life. (Hint, the goal is to heal your relationship to food, not lose weight).

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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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Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page.

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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

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Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions

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Subscribe to the podcast We're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendation? E-mail [email protected] to get in touch.

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Join the Facebook group Continue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there!

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.