Hello and welcome. This is Jesse Jean and you're listening to the Dear Body Podcast.

I spent 10 years stuck in the diet binge cycles hating my body and envying women who seem to have it all because I never felt enough.

And what I discovered in my journey to food freedom, radical self-love, and becoming an eating psychology coach is this.

You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it.

And that is what this podcast is all about.

We get real, we get raw, and we hold nothing back.

So if you're ready to learn how to work in sync with your mind and evolve

your life, welcome to the show. I'm truly so honored to be sitting down with my guest today

for the second time. Her name is Shante, and I previously had her on, and we talked about

breaking the stigma around black women and eating disorders. We dove into where Shantay's

struggles with food and body began. And we talked about a number of really important, juicy

topics that don't get covered enough. We talked about lack of representation in the media. We talked about the

stigma that the black community faces, not just with eating disorders, but mental health

struggles in general and how taboo it is in the black community. And today we're going to be

breaking down a number of really important topics. We're going to be talking about why body positivity and IG

influencers aren't the answer for mental health. We're going to be talking about systemic racism

and how does the black, how can the black community expect quality care from a system that

believes they're inferior based on their race? We're going to talk about normalizing, seeking

help for

mental health and using food to cope and reward. We're going to be diving into a bunch of these

juicy topics. I'm so excited for you to hear from Shantay. She is truly an inspiration on so many

levels, has overcome so much. And it's been such an honor to watch her grow and evolve inside the

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