Compassionate Conversations with Esther Kane, MSW

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Do you struggle to feel confident in your body regardless of your size?  Watch this enlightening interview where Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane speaks with Summer Innanen-a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She will give you some wonderful tips which will increase your body confidence starting now.

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Summer Innanen- Body Image Coach
3:30 Summer's personal story
13:59 Why so many of us dislike how we look
19:20 Concrete steps we can take to feeling more comfortable in our own skin
27:42 Difference is between ‘body positivity’ and ‘body neutrality’
38:09 How body image and patriarchy intersect and how a feminist lens shifts this
45:23 Summer's journey to love/accept/appreciate about the body she has
51:00 A ‘bigger picture’ vision of what is possible for all of us regarding body image
54:48 Inspirational body image healing stories from Summer's clients

To find Summer Innanen:
https://summerinnanen.com

Resources mentioned:

Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology
https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/the-body-is-not-an-apology

Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/you-have-the-right-to-remain-fat

Jes Baker: Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
https://www.sealpress.com/titles/jes-baker/things-no-one-will-tell-fat-girls/9781580055826/

Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Ph.D.: Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645672/fat-girls-in-black-bodies-by-joy-arlene-renee-cox-phd/

FREE resources:

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page:
https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

To receive my 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

Watch my YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DU4xM_co9zSxOWZvd08oA

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Enjoy this fun and insightful conversation between Esther Kane and her dear friend Joanne about their relationships to food, bodies and ageing. In it, we explore Joanne’s problematic relationship with food and where it originated, her battle with Orthorexia and how she ultimately healed from it. Finally, we talk about the ageing process and how we can learn to embrace it.

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Joanne Leese
3:40 History of our friendship
7:13 Jewish women and ageing
7:40 Joanne's relationship to food and her body in her teens
12:50 Her 20's- Becomes Orthorexic
15:00 Healing from Orthorexia
16:15 The ageing process and how we navigate ageing in a positive way


FREE resources:

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page:
https://www.estherkane.com/category/e...

To receive my 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

Watch my YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DU4xM_co9zSxOWZvd08oA

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Do you dread having your photo taken? Vivianne McMaster of “Be Your Own Beloved” Photography,  shares her top tips for enjoying seeing your image. Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane, MSW, RSW, RCC interviews Vivianne on how we can learn to thrive in front of the camera.

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Vivienne
3:27 Vivienne's personal journey which led her to becoming a body positive photographer
8:45 Internalization of toxic messages re: larger sized bodies
10:45 How Vivienne used photography as part of her own healing journey
17:55 Becoming the 'subject' rather than the 'object' in photos
19:00 Meeting yourself with curiosity and self-compassion
22:30 Photos expressing who you are rather than what your body looks like
25:00 Why so many of us recoil from having our photos taken
27:00 Steps we can take to feel more comfortable in front of the camera
31:00 Larger bodies in the media
31:17 Why it's worth going through the discomfort of getting in front of the camera
34:25 Body positivity vs. body neutrality
39:30 Vivienne's own body acceptance journey and where she is now
42:22 Stories and feedback from Vivienne's photography clients and students

Vivienne McMaster of “Be Your Own Beloved” Photography can be found here:
https://www.viviennemcmasterphotography.com

FREE resources:

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page:
https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

Get Rid of Relationships that Drain Your Energy: 10 Tips:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

Watch my YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DU4xM_co9zSxOWZvd08oA

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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As a plus-sized woman, do you dread shopping for clothes? You're not alone! Listen to Esther Kane interviewing Lorna Keller of Bodacious to learn how to love adorning your body in beautiful clothes and to feel empowered in the dressing room. 

Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Lorna's personal journey which led her to opening  boutique plus-size clothing stores
4:53 History of Bodacious
7:34 Why shopping for plus-size clothes is such negative experience for most women
10:28 Steps women can take to increase their confidence while shopping
16:55 Transformational stories
20:55 Learning to love the ’skin we’re in’
21:50 How we ended up with this ‘thin is in’ mentality
22:15 Body/size acceptance and societal changes we’d like to see

Lorna Ketler and Bodacious can be found here:
https://bodacious.ca

FREE resources:

To  learn more about making peace with your body's size and shape, get a free digital copy of my book, It's Not About the Food: A Woman's Guide to Making Peace with Food and Our Bodies:

Click "Download a FREE copy of the e-book" at:
https://www.estherkane.com/resources/its-not-about-the-food/

Get Rid of Relationships that Drain Your Energy: 10 Tips:
https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

To read a whole lot of articles I've written on women, eating disorders and body image, click on this page:
https://www.estherkane.com/category/eating-disorders/

Watch my YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DU4xM_co9zSxOWZvd08oA

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com

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Hi Everyone! I’m Esther Kane from Compassionate Conversations where we push the boundaries of comfort to empower you to become all that you dream of being.  Having been a psychotherapist for over 25 years, I am all-too-familiar with the fact that we humans prioritize comfort and that is why I believe that so many avoid therapy altogether.

In my role as therapist, I have the honour and privilege to journey alongside people who have the courage to face aspects of themselves that they aren’t proud of such as addictive behaviour and unhealthy relationship patterns. Many of these people have also buried past traumas which feed their addictions and low self-worth. These are the folks who are willing to take risks and examine their inner life with a flashlight together. It is always difficult and hard work, but they are willing to do whatever it takes in order to heal and grow.

If you are ready to do the same, then you’re in the right place. Compassionate Conversations is all about getting honest and real with ourselves, letting go of the past along with behaviour patterns which are no longer serving you, and growing into the person you have always wanted to be.

In these podcasts, I will share incredibly powerful and life-shifting tools and practices I teach to my clients-the most important one being self-compassion- I have found that this one element is absolutely essential in order for us to heal and transform our lives.

I don’t just teach these tools. I practice them myself every single day. Why? Because I cannot take my clients to any place that I have not been myself. When I look back on my life now, I can’t believe how far I have come and how much healing is possible for one person. I am living a life that I never dreamed was possible for me. I owe so much of this to the compassionate conversations that my own therapists, guides and mentors over the years have had with me. On our journeys, we need others who can pave the way for us; those brave souls who managed to overcome obstacles and difficulties and make it to the other side and are living proof that it’s possible!

I will be interviewing many of these amazing people so that they can inspire and uplift you and give you the tools you need to transform your life for the better. I welcome you with open arms into these compassionate conversations. Please don’t forget to follow this podcast, give it a great review if you really enjoy it and pass episodes onto others who could also benefit from them. Thanks and enjoy!

Watch my YouTube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-DU4xM_co9zSxOWZvd08oA

Support the show

Links

To watch episodes on Esther's YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@compassionateconversations441

Subscribe to my newsletter to receive either of these for FREE:10 Tips for Getting Rid of Relationships That Drain Your Energy or the 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies: 

https://www.estherkane.com/#newsletter

If you want to do therapy with me (only residents of British Columbia, Canada):

www.estherkane.com