102. Lauren Barnes | The Divine Gift of Our Bodies

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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How can we develop a healthier body image as Latter-day Saint women despite beauty norms and pressures in the world today? How can we help the young women and girls around us learn to treasure the divine gift of their bodies as they grow and develop into women? Dr. Lauren Barnes is the director of clinical training for the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Brigham Young University and specializes in women’s issues, including body image and eating disorders. Join us as we talk with Dr. Barnes about these important issues affecting Latter-day Saint women and girls today. Resources: For more Church resources and articles about body image and eating disorders, see the August 2019 Ensign and New Era magazines: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2019/08?lang=eng https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/new-era/2019/08/more-than-a-body-seeing-as-god-sees?lang=eng

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:11.2	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women of faith today.
0:16.1	I'm Shailen Back.
0:17.0	And I'm Carly Geiman. We're your co-hosts.
0:19.5	And today we are so excited to welcome Lauren Barnes to the show show who's with us here in the studio in Salt Lake City. Lauren, welcome. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. We're so excited to have you. We've really been looking forward to this conversation. And we feel so fortunate to have Lauren with us. Today, Lauren is the director of clinical training for Brigham Young University
0:37.9	Marriage and Family Therapy graduate programs, and she specializes in women's issues, including
0:43.1	body image, eating disorders, and postpartum depression. So we're very excited to be able to draw upon
0:48.9	that expertise today in discussing some of these topics. Just as a little background on Lauren,
0:54.0	she previously
0:54.8	worked at BYU Women's Services and Resource Center, specializing in treating these and other women's
1:00.3	issues. And during and after her PhD program, she also worked as a therapist at Center for Change,
1:05.8	which is a residential treatment center for women and girls struggling with eating disorders.
1:10.5	So lots of hands-on experience
1:12.1	with these issues, Lauren maintains a small private practice, and she's married to Erin Barnes,
1:16.6	and they have two children. Yeah. So as I mentioned, we're excited to talk with Lauren today
1:23.4	specifically about eating disorders and how women, Latter-day St. Women in particular, can foster a healthier body image and do that with the young girls in their lives as well, whether daughters or young girls at church or those that they work with. So we're really grateful. Thanks again, Lauren, for being here. Yeah, thanks for having me.
1:41.3	To jump right into the questions, it's surprising to learn of the prevalence of eating
1:45.4	disorders and the wide demographic of people affected by eating disorders.
1:49.7	Lauren, will you just share with our listeners what we're referring to when we talk about
1:54.4	eating disorders and the groups and ages of people who are most vulnerable?
1:59.1	Yeah.
1:59.9	Eating disorders are really prevalent all over the world.
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