Body Liberation for All

Celia is an Asian Indian gender fluid, non-op trans woman of color who is an entrepreneur, musician, photographer, storyteller, activist and filmmaker. She writes and speaks passionately about her struggles and challenges she faced in her family, work, and community both in the US and India. As a management consultant with top fortune 100 companies, she educates, empowers, and advocates for transgender and gender non-binary individuals in the business world. 

Celia brings an amazing intersectional blend of ethnicity, creativity, culture, religion, and corporate experience in her activism. Received the 2019 Human Rights Campaign’s equality award for“ Outstanding commitment and service to our community”. She is currently in the Executive Board for Trans Can Work and the VP of Stonewall Democrats of Ventura County, California.

Growing up as a lonely closeted trans child in a conservative middle-class Christian home in Southern India, Celia writes and speaks passionately about their inner struggles, gender dysphoria and social challenges she faced in her family, work, school, and community both in the US and India.

This episode we discuss 

🌈The intersection of misogyny, racism, and transphobia

🌈Surviving years of gender dysphoria with moments of gender euphoria

🌈Reclaiming personal power through intersectional activism

🌈Living for yourself and learning to follow your internal compass

Resources

Connect with Celia

www.linkedin.com/in/celiasandaniels

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Sarah Osman is a mixed-race WOC entrepreneur with roots in Madagascar, France, India, and Malaysia. She was born and raised in Mauritius (worth the Google search if you don’t know where that is 😉) and has made Canada her home for the past 10 years.

She is a wellness and mindset coach for women of color entrepreneurs who want to break free of burnout and thrive in both their life and their biz.

Last summer Sarah and I were enrolled in a life-changing coaching program for femmes of color with revolutionary messages.  Being guided through decolonizing our mindsets around entrepreneurship was truly liberating. 

This episode we discuss

🌈The transformation that decolonization business coaching made possible

🌈Escaping the grip of fear and self-doubt 

🌈Coming home to yourself and developing self-trust

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Sarah

https://www.instagram.com/sarahosmanwellness/

Embodiment Coach and creator of the Get Embodied Soul Dance experience, Ifasina, has been a lifelong student of the human experience and self-mastery. They teach, coach, and consult on various issues and topics that involve being the kind of leader that cultivates and invest in their own greatness while being in relationship with others to support them in doing the same. Ifasina is trained formally and informally in various healing modalities and professional development strategies with a focus on experiences and bodies that are often overlooked and ignored in the pursuit of mainstream notions of leadership, professionalism, health, and wellness.

This episode we discuss

🌈How to develop an embodiment practice?

🌈How do you find a spiritual practice that is LGBTQIA+ or Queer affirming?

🌈How do develop a relationship with your body without the obligation to perform wellness? 🌈What is the connection between spirituality and embodiment?

🌈How can embodiment work help queer, black, brown, disabled, and fat bodies counter the damage living in a hostile world?

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Ifasina

https://www.instagram.com/ get.embodied

Sean Crenshaw is the Founder of betruebu.com (pronounced be true be you). She identifies as a masculine presenting lesbian who has created a dating community that is about creating friendships, networking, and finding someone to date that isn't looking for a one night or a wedding in June. This site is for black professional women who want to start new friendships and are tired of dating apps that focus on looks instead of communication.

This episode we discuss

🌈Love as Hard Work

🌈Why Queer Women Deserve Better than Stereotypes and Misogyny in Relationships

🌈Dispelling the Soulmate Myth

🌈Finding and Creating Safe Spaces for Love

🌈Challenging Internalized Stigma

🌈Healing from Heartbreak and Keeping the Heart Open

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Sean

https://www.instagram.com/betrue_bu/

Check out betruebu.com

Summer Luk is a musician, transgender activist, and content creator.  She uses her lyrics to challenge the current narrative of the transgender experience.  She's been using her platform to address the issues that she is most passionate about, create safe spaces for her followers, and to build community. 

This episode we discuss

🌈learning to trust your voice

🌈managing the pressure of becoming a public figure

🌈staying true to the topics you are passionate about

🌈passing privilege and active activism 

🌈rewriting your story and stepping into your full worth

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Summer 

https://www.instagram.com/summerluk

https://www.tiktok.com/@summerluk

Check out her music 

https://open.spotify.com/album/3s7Np4fVlWEsQv4R8b5IOO?highlight=spotify:track:5dBxM0ddTrg8VKEyM7BgTG

Rawiyah is a kink aware professional with roots in queer, poly-amorous, and fat community. Their tone is reflective of these roots and their work is informed by how these intersect with their Blackness. Magic, massage, storytelling and performance art are tools they use to liberate, heal and reclaim space for themself and their marginalized communities.

This episode Rawiyah explains:

🌈how to set up your first altar

🌈connecting with chosen ancestors 

🌈setting boundaries in spiritualism 

🌈using ritual in healing 

🌈sharing your story in lieu of traditional marketing

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Rawiyah 

https://www.instagram.com/mammyisdead/

https://www.instagram.com/projectetesen/

https://www.instagram.com/myblackbodypodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/a.sovereign.embodiment/

The damage that colonization has done to the consciousness of over half the world's population is mind boggling. Beauty and body image have been in the eyes of the colonizer for long enough.



If you want to honor and celebrate your body and stop viewing it through a eurocentric heteronormative lens, this workshop replay is for you.  



It's decolonization season 💖💖💖

Resources 

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Today's guest stands out from her peers as personal trainer and yoga teacher committed to social justice who uses liberated fitness to help clients escape from the dominant culture's oppressive version of fitness.  Sarah's belief that the body should be moved in ways that feel good and that an obsessive focus on size is not health promoting, aligns perfectly with the liberatory message of the show.  Her insights as a life long learner dedicated to research and learning to Do Better brings depth to the conversation of navigating appropriated spaces as a cis-queer woman with white skin.  

This episode we discuss 

🌈sharing yoga as a spiritual practice as an atheist

🌈making yoga and fitness accessible and inclusive

🌈recognizing that everything you need is within you 

🌈applying activism and social justice to wellness 

🌈finding a spiritual practice that supports you 

🌈navigating cultural appropriation in faith spaces

🌈why we have to center the most vulnerable in our activism 

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Sarah on IG

 https://www.instagram.com/merri.fit

And her latest offering 

https://www.merri.fit/liberated-fitness-playbook; a 3-month coaching program to take you from an unhealthy, restrictive, and obsessive relationship with fitness to a healthy, balanced, and intuitive one that brings peace, healing, and self-love. Includes online lessons, worksheets, individual coaching, and group support

Thank you to Stellar Podcast Productions for producing this episode http://www.stellar-podcast.com/

January 1 kicks off body hatred season.  Every year like clockwork we can expect companies to prey on our hunger for worthiness.   Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD of Be Nourished have been working with folks since 2005 to reclaim their body trust, let go of dieting and weight cycling, and ease into more compassionate sustainable forms of self-care.  

This episode Hilary and Dana 

✨explain the connection between systems of oppression and diet culture(the belief system that posits that some bodies are superior to others and that the thin ideal is the bee's knees)

✨break down how white supremacy is entangled in diet culture

✨developing self-compassion around privilege and the pursuit of social justice 

✨how social injustice impacts health and wellbeing

✨how white supremacy/cultural centrism has influenced western views of 'healthy' food

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with BeNourished 

https://benourished.org/offerings/

https://www.facebook.com/benourishedpdx

https://www.instagram.com/benourishedpdx

Are you feeling lost and uncertain? Have you wasted time, energy, and resources trying to find clarity and meaning in your life? In times like these, it's vital to know who you are, why you're here, and what you should be doing.   Melvin Nix has literally written the book on finding your purpose and living a meaningful life. 

Melvin D Nix is a spiritual teacher, certified reiki master, and energy healer. He is an author, motivational speaker and currently hosts a weekly broadcast called "Putting On The Pneu You," Where he teaches how to transform your life by living through your spirit. His purpose is to teach universal spiritual concepts and principles in an easy to understand format so that anyone can apply them and see tangible results in their daily lives. 

This episode we discuss

🔥how to find your purpose

🔥finding answers in silence

🔥learning how to hear your own voice

🔥learning to manage loved ones that can't understand your purpose

Resources  

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Melvin

"You Are In The Middle Of Your Purpose" https://amzn.to/2FyIK3a  

http://www.pneuyou.com