I’m joined by weight inclusive, anti-diet personal stylist, Dacy Gillespie. We’re talking about the importance of having clothes that fit and you feel good in, and how to navigate the process of finding new clothes when your body has changed, or you’re not sure what your style is, or you’ve got budgetary constraints.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/321

 

In this episode, we talk about:

- What got her into this work and inspired her to focus on weight inclusivity,

- What the process can look like, - How buying clothes that fit can have a big impact on how you feel about your body, - Advice to someone who feels like they don’t know where to start in deciding what they want to wear, - How to shift body changes into an opportunity to find what you really like, - Advice on how to make the shopping process less overwhelming, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/321   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 revisiting my interview with Alexis Conason, clinical psychologist, eating disorder specialist, and author of The Diet-Free Revolution, unpacking everything that the research says about weight loss. Is it possible to lose weight in the long-term? What do you need to do to achieve that? Plus, how learning to eat more mindfully (in a non-diet way) can help you to become a more intuitive eater.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/320

 

In this episode, we talk about:

- That long term weight loss and maintenance is extremely rare, and the industry knows it,

- How researchers have used examples of people with eating disorders as lessons for weight loss, - That in the rare instances when people sustain weight loss long term, it’s often not in a healthy way, - A study on contestants from The Biggest Loser, and why we never see a follow-up episode of this show, - That health is not determined by weight and that most of what impacts health is out of our control,- How mindfulness can shift the way we see ourselves and how we interact with the world, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/320 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 Jenn Salib Huber, RD and Naturopathic Doctor who helps women manage menopause without diets and food rules. We’re talking about why we gain weight during the menopause transition, the impact of restricting and dieting during this phase of life, whether you need to eat loads of protein and lift heavy weights, and what is truly beneficial to your health during this period of life.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/319

 

In this episode, we talk about:

- Her experience with early perimenopause, - What’s happening in perimenopause and menopause - The urgency that kicks in during this phase and how it plays into diet culture, - That we can’t preserve muscle and pursue aggressive weight loss at the same time, - The difference between doing something consistently versus perfectly, - Advice on how to navigate information relating to menopause nutrition and health, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/319 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 Vincci Tsui (she/her) registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. We’re talking about Vincci’s experience working in bariatrics and what brought her to the anti-diet space, as well as her predictions for what will happen with the rise of weight loss drugs. We also talk about cultural sensitivity in the nutrition space and whether we can trust nutrition evidence.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/318

 

In this episode, we talk about:

- Things she wishes people knew who are considering bariatric surgery,

- Some of the trials going on with weight loss drugs, - What the proliferation of these drugs means for the body positivity/acceptance movement, - A definition of cultural sensitivity, - The importance of investigating what is forming the base of our evidence that we look to, and who is included in the studies, - Where she thinks some of the mainstream advice is falling short, - Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/318 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.

Danni and I are recapping some of the beauty and other related trends influencing our body image. We’re talking about the “ballerina body,” the soft voice, a face standard, trad wives, make America healthy again, and more. Plus, we’re excited to share about our Spring cohort of the Body Image Coach Certification opening for enrolment on January 28th, 2025.

Show notes: summerinnanen.com/317   In this episode, we talk about:

- The differences we’re seeing in beauty trends now compared to the past,

- How this all ties into the white supremacist value of perfectionism, - How none of the make America healthy again rhetoric looks at things like the social determinants of health,

- The lack of structural protections,

- Some of the topics covered in our Body Image Coach Certification and how it works,

- The way our course talks about power, privilege, and bias,

- Plus so much more!  Get the shownotes: www.summerinnanen.com/317   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 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.