Love & Learn

It took SJ Thompson a long time before they ever felt like they could actually be in their body and not hate it and not blame themselves for all the ways society is not made for them. A huge part of their ED recovery has been to figure out how to be angry and learn how to not operate from a place of shame.

"Silence adds to shame and silence doesn't help you express your anger." -SJ Thompson

Brandilyn Tebo's eating disorder served as an alarm clock that awakened her to what she needed to do to save herself and ultimately the dreams she wanted to pursue in life. In this show, we talk all about challenging beliefs and thoughts and how it can help you find the wholeness and love within you.

Where are all my people at? According to Annie Segarra, queer disabled latinx (she/they) activist for body positivity, LGBTQ+, disability, chronic illness, mental health, and autism says they are out there waiting for you to find them. In this show, learn about diversifying your social media feed, finding your community - the people who understand your experiences - and the activists who are fighting for you.

"There's so many people that live in shame about their disabilities and isolate themselves from the community that they could potentially have."

Summer's life used to be dominated by exercise and dieting. She spent nearly two decades battling her body before she realized that the issue was not her size, but her mindset. Now, Summer Innanen is a podcaster and life coach who dedicates her time helping people overcome their obsession with food and body. Learn how she broke away from her toxic relationship with diet culture and began to reconnect with the things in life that bring her true happiness.

Is the #BoPo movement doing the best it can? Does the hyper focus on positivity drown out the real need to address the negative impacts of body oppression? Learn what author, coach, self-love advocate, and magnificently irreverent force Jes Baker has to say about social media, diet culture, boundaries, and hard conversations that move us forward. "If we wait to be perfect, we won't get anything done." ~Jes Baker

After suffering in silence for years with exercise addiction, anorexia, and purging behaviors, Paul finally sought treatment. Now secure in his recovery, he talks openly and vulnerably about his struggles with "golden boy syndrome" and his unrelenting compulsions toward perfectionism.

Savala Nolan's social justice work is critical to changing our world. She is the executive Director of the Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law and author of the recently published book Don't Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body.

In this show, she gets personal about her recovery from extreme dieting, overexercising, and self-loathing and why systems of oppression encourage us to see the "problem" as within ourselves.

Change is a process that takes place from the outside in and from the inside out. In this week's show, Dr. Michael Berrett, Co-Founder of Center for Change describes this process and how it is intimately tied with our self worth and identity. Tune in to this uplifting interview for a gentle reminder to why you deserve love, happiness, respect, and recovery.

As the Co-Founder of the Institute for Antiracism and Equity in Mental Health and the Deputy Director at Ayana Therapy, Dr. Norman Kim is a leading expert in the ways racism and oppression impact our mental health system. His clear sense of mission for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion comes from his first hand experience of living with a pervasive sense of "otherness" and not wanting his sons to experience the same lack of belonging.

Check out a new show! In This Body, is a thoughtful, relevant, and powerful series that communicates the importance of listening to the diverse lived experiences of many. By unraveling the ways we've been taught to fear our individuality and diversity, it underscores one's body and identity is not what makes someone a risk factor. But the way society treats people does.