I’m sharing a summary of what the research says about eating disorders and disordered eating in mid-life, and why this lifestage can make people more vulnerable to EDs and disordered eating.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/316   In this episode, I talk about:

- How a lot of perimenopause and menopause messaging promotes disordered habits, celebrating and normalizing it,

- Some of the barriers to treatment, - That eating disorders are often associated with young women and the problems with this, - That data is limited since so few women actually seek and receive treatment, - The biological aspect of it, - What to do with this information, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/316   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Louise Green, personal trainer, author and creator of the Size Inclusive Training Academy. We’re talking about what we think about the new year/new you messaging and new year’s resolutions, how to know when you’re ready to set fitness goals, how to set those goals in a weight neutral way, and how she feels about the messaging around fitness and perimenopause.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/315   In this episode, I talk about:

- The struggles she’s seen people experiencing when looking for size-inclusive training,

- The trends she’s noticing in fitness when it comes to size inclusivity, - That many places don’t truly understand what size inclusivity means - The importance of understanding the why underneath the goal, - How easy it is to default to the weight loss mindset, - The truth about the body’s decline in perimenopause, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/315   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Abbie Attwood (she/her), an anti-diet, weight-inclusive nutritionist with a masters in clinical nutrition. We’re talking about Abbie’s experience with OCD and an eating disorder, why there is an overlap between these and what helped her most during recovery. We also talk about how to find your identity if it changes because you’re no longer obsessively dieting or exercising.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/314   In this episode, I talk about:

- The things that OCD and eating disorders have in common, - How Abbie’s eating disorder impacted her OCD, and vice versa,

- The unique challenges this combination presents in recovery, - Where she’s at with her own journey now, - The importance of healing your relationship with rest, - The importance of detaching your self-worth from movement, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/314   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m talking about how to manage holiday “overeating.” I give you specific ways to manage “overeating,” and guilt around eating certain foods.   Show notes: summerinnanen.com/313   In this episode, I talk about: - The role that dieting and restriction can play in “overeating,” - Why I don’t like the word “overeating,” - How restriction can cause us to “overeat” and what we can do to manage that, - Some other resources that can help this time of year, - How the diet cycle works and what stepping out of that cycle looks like, - That it’s counter-cultural to accept your body, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/313   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Caroline J Sumlin, author of We'll All Be Free: How a Culture of White Supremacy Devalues Us and How We Can Reclaim Our True Worth. We’re talking about how white supremacy culture influences our self-worth, the various ways that this manifests in our life, and how to start to break free from it. 

 

 

 

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/312   In this episode, we talk about: - A definition and examples of white supremacy culture, - What Caroline found about white supremacy and how it had impacted her life, - How society makes us constantly feel like we’re not doing enough, - Is it possible for us to thrive in these systems? - That thriving looks different from what society says, - The importance of detaching our worth and humanity from what society is demanding of us, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/312   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m talking about a counterintuitive way to manage body anxiety - whether that be from pictures or the mirror or in social situations.

 

 

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/311   In this episode, I talk about: - The personal fear that led me to create this episode, - What I learned working through that fear, - What I mean by body anxiety, - That we want to learn to cope with intense feelings about our body instead of letting them escalate, - Why it’s worth considering if there are areas where you’re holding yourself back, - How liberating this work can be, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/311   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Dana Karen (“DK”) Ciccone, a certified Pilates instructor, owner of Movement Remedies, and author of You’re Meant to Move. We’re talking about how to recover from having a disordered relationship with exercise and whether you need to lose weight in order to help with pain. 

 

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/310   In this episode, we talk about: - How pain can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, - The importance of understanding why you’re moving, - The definition of exploratory movement, - The link between chronic dieting and chronic pain, - The many factors that contribute to pain, -That we tend not to notice the absence of pain, just the presence, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/310   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m talking about how attachment styles relate to body image. I’m sharing briefly about what the attachment styles are, how they relate to body image, self-compassion, body grief, and what we can do with this information.Show notes: summerinnanen.com/309   In this episode, I talk about: - The four main types of attachment styles and a brief overview of some of their characteristics, - A few critiques of attachment theory, - That our body image is heavily influenced by how the world perceives us and our interpersonal relationships, - That there is a significant association between attachment anxiety and body image concerns, - That attachment anxiety and avoidance are linked to lower self-compassion and how that makes body image work more challenging, - How to work on attachment and body image together, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/309   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m joined by Shana Spence (she/her), Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and author of Live Nourished: Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy. We are talking about why the BMI is bullshit, whether processed foods are really bad for us, and her perspective that “all foods fit.”Show notes: summerinnanen.com/308   In this episode, I talk about: - How bias is taught and reinforced in teaching,

- How the BMI is used to discriminate,

- Other ways to measure health,

- How to define processed food,

- What she feels is most useful about intuitive eating, and what she would change,

- That food is not just for nutrients, it’s also for joy,

- Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/308   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.

I’m exploring body grief ­– I talk about the different ways we might experience body grief, whether we can actually “overcome” it, why it’s so hard to grieve our ideal body, the factors that determine how we process this grief, and how we can move away from the stages of grief model to other models that may be more useful for moving forward. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/307 In this episode, I talk about: - What body grief is, - That body grief is influenced by individual and social factors, - That grief is influenced by our personality and attachment style, - How grief is an adaptive process, - Why community support is key, - What it means to find meaning in this loss, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/307   Get the free 10-Day Body Confidence Makeover with 10 steps to feel better in your body at summerinnanen.com/freebies If you're a professional who has clients or students that struggle with body image, get the Body Image Coaching Roadmap for professionals at summerinnanen.com/roadmap   Support the show via Ko-Fi - go to ko-fi.com/summerinnanen and you can make a monthly contribution. For as little as $5 a month, you can help to keep this show on the air for another season and you’ll get my mini-course “Conquering Negative Body Talk.”