Are you tired of feeling trapped in the cycle of negative body image and struggling with societal beauty ideals? Today's guests are body image experts sharing invaluable insights to help you along your healing journey.

Meet Ally Duvall and Cara Bohon, two people who are working together to help others heal their body image and live a life of freedom in eating disorder recovery.

Ally is the Body Image Program Manager and the Senior Program Development Lead at Equip Health. She’s a recovery advocate and fat activist who uses her lived experience with eating disorder recovery in a larger body to help others on their healing journey.

Cara is a clinical psychologist and researcher who has dedicated both her academic and professional careers to helping people with eating disorders. She’s currently the Vice President of Clinical Programs at Equip, and she helped develop the Body Image Program that Ally now manages.

In today's episode of Equipped to Recover, Ally & Cara shed light on the journey of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and dismantling societal beauty standards to heal body image.

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Timestamped Overview:

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:04:26] Ally shares her long struggle with undiagnosed eating disorder.

[00:08:21] Cara shares how curiosity as a teen sparked an academic career studying eating disorders.

[00:15:43] Overcoming body images struggles through cognitive dissonance, body positivity.

[00:19:17] Importance of parents in Equip's body image program.

[00:22:11] Finding positivity in self-image, overcoming negativity.

[00:27:23] Transformative body image program challenges negative self-talk.

[00:31:59] Body Positivity vs. Body Neutrality

[00:36:03] Neutralizing the power of the word "fat".

[00:41:15] Supportive communities offer freedom from negative thoughts.