#131: How to Reclaim Pleasure In Food and Your Body with Substantia Jones of The Adipositivity Project

Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

Health, Food, Bodypositive, Antidiet, Recovery, Fat, Dietculture, Weight, Eating, Positivity, Intuitive, Diet, Nutrition, Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Body

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Activist and photographer Substantia Jones joins us to discuss recovery from chronic dieting, taking pleasure in food, using photography to find body love, the patriarchy’s influence on beauty ideals, the role of romantic relationships in our body image journey, the power of the diet industry, coping with hatred and online trolls, and much more! PLUS, Christy answers a listener question about how to deal with fatphobic “workplace wellness” programs.

Photo-activist Substantia Jones created, manages, and is sole photographer for the fat acceptance campaign, The Adipositivity Project. The website, which just celebrated its 10th anniversary, hosts a diverse and growing collection of hundreds of her photographs of fat people of all genders, mostly women, mostly nude.

The mission of Jones’ work is to combat sizeist bigotry and weight-related misinformation, to promote recognition of an individual’s body autonomy, and to encourage critical thinking and enlightened discussion of body politics. Jones lectures in schools and universities (with slideshow!), but her work is done primarily with photography, subverting this tool commonly used in promoting body shame, and using it instead to demystify the fat body and give it the respect and visibility too often denied it by the media and popular culture. The message is to love your body, and to allow others to love their own.

Her photography has been featured globally in books, magazines, and news outlets, and has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. She is a happily fat woman who lives in New York City and quotes Monty Python a lot. Maybe too much. Find her online at adipositivity.com.

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0:30.0	This episode is also brought to you by Summer Innen's best-selling book, Body Image Remix.
0:34.9	In this refreshingly amusing self-help guide, one of my favorite body image coaches
0:39.4	and my friend Summer Innen gives you a step-by-step way of discovering, challenging,
0:44.4	and resetting the beliefs that are holding you back from being unapologetically you
0:49.2	in today's perfection-obsessed society, including journal prompts and exercises.
0:54.0	Until December 6th, Food Psych listeners can get a free copy of the audio version of
0:58.4	Body Image Remix by heading to christieharrison.com slash remix.
1:03.2	Note that there is some colorful language in this book just like in my podcast.
1:07.6	Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, and body liberation.
1:13.1	I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diad registered dietitian and certified
1:18.2	intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over
1:22.8	the world make peace with food.
1:24.9	Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of life,
1:29.0	about their relationships with food and their bodies.
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