149. Diet Culture, Internalized Oppression, & Fat Bias - My Story
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Most of us are so steeped in fatphobia that we don’t even realize it exists…and yet it impacts every aspect of our lives, from what we think about our bodies to what our doctors tell us when we are sick. Listen in to learn how I used thought work to overcome my own internalized fatphobia, and how you can set yourself free, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain |
| 0:16.3 | and get what you want in life. |
| 0:18.6 | And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach, Kara Loyenthyle. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello my chickens, how are you? You may hear a rushing sound in the background |
| 0:37.8 | it's because there's a crazy tropical storm yesterday and so these are not words I ever thought I would say on my |
| 0:45.3 | podcast but the creek is running high in the backyard so it might be a little loud. |
| 0:52.0 | Other than that how are we doing? |
| 0:55.0 | I am amazing, as usual. |
| 0:58.0 | I have been doing some really deep work on myself in my own personal life and when I'm really engaging with my |
| 1:05.1 | thought work and digging into my brain it just reminds me of how powerful and |
| 1:09.0 | life-changing all of this work truly is. |
| 1:13.0 | And I was talking to my coach the other day. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, I still get coached. |
| 1:17.0 | We all need an outside perspective on our brains, |
| 1:20.0 | that's why I laugh when people are like, |
| 1:22.0 | well I think I can just figure it out from the podcast. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm like, good luck, because I write the podcast. |
| 1:27.8 | And I've been doing this for years, and I teach and coach other people at a world glass level and I still need some outside eyes on my brain. |
| 1:38.0 | So I was talking about how one of the reasons that I feel so passionately about this work and its relationship to social justice is because of the work I did on my own internalized fat bias and fat phobia And in talking to her about it, |
| 1:52.9 | I was talking about the body image class |
| 1:54.8 | that I just wrapped up inside the clutch. |
| 1:56.8 | We did a clutch college online body image course |
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