#108: The Roots of the Body-Positive Movement with Connie Sobczak, Co-Founder of The Body Positive
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2017
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Body-image activist Connie Sobczak joins us to discuss recovering from diet culture and body dissatisfaction, her role in creating the concept of body positivity and how HAES and fat acceptance were integrated from the start, the pluses and minuses of the current body-positive movement, why calling it "body neutrality" might work better for some people, why BMI is BS, the beauty ideal and aging, and lots more!
Connie Sobczak is a mentor, writer, educator, and award-winning video producer. Her experience with an eating disorder in her teen years and the death of her sister Stephanie inspired her life’s work to create a world where all people are free to love their bodies. In 1996, Connie brought her vision to life when she created The Body Positive with Elizabeth Scott, LCSW.
Connie is the author of Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!), a book in which she brings the Be Body Positive Model to life, and skillfully and lovingly reconnects readers to their authenticity and beauty. She is a leader of the movement to prevent eating problems and improve the self-image of youth and adults through her writing, workshops, videos, professional trainings, leadership programs, and speaking engagements.
A California native, Connie currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, Jim. Their daughter, Carmen, is her inspiration and her joy. Find Connie online at TheBodyPositive.org
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, body positivity, and health at every |
| 0:06.2 | size. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified |
| 0:11.2 | intuitive eating counselor, specializing in weight-inclusive wellness. |
| 0:15.3 | Join me as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships |
| 0:19.3 | with food. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey there, welcome to episode 108 of Food Psych. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm your host, Kristi Harrison, and today I'm talking with Connie Subcheck, the co-founder |
| 0:43.2 | of the Body Positive, which is an organization devoted to helping people make peace with |
| 0:47.4 | food in their bodies. |
| 0:49.3 | She co-founded it over 20 years ago, and they've been using the term body positive for |
| 0:53.5 | more than 20 years. |
| 0:54.5 | So, I was really curious to talk with her about the term and how they came up with it, and |
| 0:59.0 | how she sees the evolution of body positivity and sort of the mainstreaming of body positivity |
| 1:04.2 | today, and what its roots were and why health at every size and intuitive eating are so |
| 1:10.1 | important to the mission of body positivity. |
| 1:12.9 | So, it's a really great conversation, and I love talking with Connie, so I can't wait |
| 1:17.0 | to share that with you in just a minute. |
| 1:19.7 | First I want to share a couple of resources I really love that I know you'll love too. |
| 1:24.1 | The first being my Intuitive Eating Quick Start Guide, which I call my seven simple strategies |
| 1:29.2 | for finding peace and freedom with food, you can get that at christiheresand.com slash |
| 1:34.0 | strategies. |
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