Life After Diets

This week we talk to Molly Forbes, author of the book Body Happy Kids and founder of The Body Happy Org. Molly talks to us about her experience raising children in diet culture and the work she does to educate and empower both children and adults to create body image resilience. We discuss:

• Molly's experience on Naked Beach TV
• How Molly navigates her children's exposure to media
• What if you are a parent with your own body image issues?
• How to handle when your child comes home and says "someone called me fat."
• The Body Happy Org resources and mission

Social media handles: @mollyjforbes @bodyhappyorg

The Body Happy Org: https://www.bodyhappyorg.com

Molly's Book: Body Happy Kids

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Dieting can promote disconnection from self. Sometimes we use food to further disconnect from our experience or our shame. As we heal our relationship with food, body, and self, how do we address the tendency to disconnect?

• What is the difference between disconnection and self-abandonment?
• Sarah's airport story of accepting the moment
• How to stay connected to the Self during a body image flood
• Stefanie's "flood" concept
• The slippery slope of emotional eating
• Commitment to self vs discipline of self

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A follow up to last week's episode is out by popular demand. In this episode we continue talking about the nuances of restriction and the ways this might be showing up in your disordered eating and/or recovery process. We cover:

• What is emotional restriction?
• What does it look like to have emotional regulation instead of emotional restriction?
• Restriction of authenticity, desires, and self
• Why does it make sense to honor mental hunger in the absence of physical hunger?
• Restriction during certain times of day, around certain people, or only benig able to eat with certain bowls/utensils
• Are there scenarios where physical restriction makes sense?
• What about restricting for health reasons

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These days, restriction is a buzzword in the anti-dieting space, and it's often talked about in disordered eating recovery. But what does it really mean, and how do you know if it applies to you? In this episode, we cover:

• The difference between physical and mental restriction
• The relationship of self talk with mental restriction
• Is it always restricting to choose not to eat if you're hungry?
• Portion control as an example of restriction
• Examples of when you think you're restricting, but you might not be
• What is the difference between boundaries and restriction?

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We talk a lot about binge eating in this podcast, but this episode is dedicated to our experiences with bulimia – how it looked, how it felt, and how it was different from binge eating disorder. We'll discuss:

• What is bulimia?
• Purging as an aggressive emotional expression
• Purging as a perceived boundary against binge eating
• Bulimic behavior feeling like defiance for Stef versus collapse for Sarah
• The addictive nature of purging
• How recovery looked for Sarah v Stef

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In this episode, Sarah and Stef discuss the role of the inner critic, and how each host dealt with the evolution of the critic during recovery from binge eating. We'll cover:

• Sarah's embarrassment of her self critic versus Stef's comfort with her own
• Binges as a criticism of being "out of control"
• Identifying as a Critic or not
• Does your critic speak in first person or in third?
• Our various "best selves" ebb and flow
• Do we need support to leave our critic?
• Practical tools for dealing with our inner critic

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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Back with another guest! In this episode, we talk to Becca Robinson, a BEAT advisor in recovery from bulimia, about her experience with breast implants and her decision to ultimately have them removed.

• "As long as your belly is never wider than your bust, you're fine."
• Puberty, developing breasts, and having "real woman" proportions
• Does cosmetic surgery fix body image?
• The distinction between hating your body vs feeling obsessed with perfecting it (objectifying it)
• The difference between feeling validated by our body versus feeling fulfilled
• What led Becca to decide to remove her breast implants
• Physical problems as a result of breast implants
• How Becca's body image shifted after the implant removal

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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What does humility have to do with binge eating recovery? In this episode, we discuss:

• Is it wrong to be self-focused?
• Stef's "fall from grace" during college and how humility diminishes the ego
• The power of letting go of how things "should be"
• The relationship between our humility and our insecurities
• Leaning into our insecurities to see that they don't destroy us
• Sarah's memory of a Clubhouse event with Stef
• The role of humility with an inferiority complex

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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• The evolution of Sarah & Stef's fatigue over the years
• "Fatigue" versus "being tired"
• Sarah naps!
• Rest: Splitting attention versus single-focus restoration
• Connection and purpose to mitigate fatigue
• Routines, intentions, and structure as coping tools

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Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

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In this episode, Sarah and Stef pull out old journals to read excerpts from their deepest binge eating days. In this vulnerable episode, we share:

• Stef's entries from college: feeling like the cycle never stop repeating, and themes of loneliness and disconnection
• Sarah's "Fasting Journal"
• The difference between Sarah's despair and Stef's inner critic
• Sarah's experience in OA and ups and downs from one day to the next
• What we see in the entries now versus what we saw then

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Website – www.thebingeeatingtherapist.com

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBingeEatingTherapist

Sarah's book I Can't Stop Eating is available on Amazon

Connect with Stefanie Michele

Website – www.iamstefaniemichele.com

Work With Stef - www.iamstefaniemichele.com/application

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