#152: How to Make Peace with Photos of Yourself with Lindley Ashline of Representation Matters
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Body-positive photographer Lindley Ashline joins to talk about the power of representation, the process of breaking fashion rules for people in larger bodies, how the diet industry uses aspirational marketing to lure us in and keep us hooked, Lindley’s journey to her career in photography for diverse bodies, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether it’s appropriate to talk to diet-recovery clients about choosing “whole” foods.
Lindley Ashline is a professional photographer in Seattle, WA, who specializes in body positive portraits of people of all sizes, genders, orientations, ability levels, and ethnicities, not just the ones whose bodies are likely to be seen in magazines and advertisements. Lindley takes a judgment-free approach to her photographic subjects, with little to no retouching.
She created RepresentationMatters.me in 2016 as a response to (and rejection of) the airbrushed, normative, too-perfect stock photography available on the big mainstream stock sites. The images available on the site focus on representing people who are fat, of color, and/or part of the LGBTQIAP+ community. Representation Matters gives small business owners a way to represent the real bodies and lives of their customers in their marketing and on websites and social media. It contains Lindley's own photography as well as photos and illustrations from a growing number of contributors, making diverse and body positive artwork accessible and affordable while paying contributors a living wage.
Find thousands of high-quality diverse stock images and free monthly photos over at Lindley's site, RepresentationMatters.me.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to FoodSike, a podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:02.8 | health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm your host, Christi Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet registered dietitian and certified |
| 0:10.7 | intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and programs to help people all over the world |
| 0:15.0 | make peace with food. Join me here every week as I talk with interesting people from all walks of |
| 0:19.5 | life about their relationships with food and their bodies. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 152 of FoodSike. I'm your host, Christi Harrison, |
| 0:42.0 | and today I'm talking with Lindley Ashline, the body positive photographer behind the |
| 0:45.5 | revolutionary stock photo website representation matters. We talk about the power of representation |
| 0:50.8 | in people's journeys toward body acceptance, the process of breaking fashion rules for people |
| 0:55.3 | in larger bodies, how the diet industry uses aspirational, quote-unquote, marketing to lure us in |
| 1:00.5 | and keep us hooked, and so much more. It's a really, really good one. I can't wait to share it |
| 1:04.4 | with you in just a moment, but first I'll answer this week's listener question. It's from a listener |
| 1:08.7 | named Lizzie who writes, I'm an aspiring health coach with my own history of a pretty terrible |
| 1:13.2 | relationship with food. Foods were definitely quote-good and quote-bad, and my self-esteem was |
| 1:18.0 | totally wrapped up in my food choices and weight. I dieted and binge it and was pretty miserable. |
| 1:23.0 | I now eat intuitively and do not try to get my diet quote-unquote right, whatever that means. |
| 1:27.8 | Sometimes I can still have old diet mentality thoughts, but I recognize this for what it is and |
| 1:31.9 | turn the volume down and get on with my life. My question is, a big part of my initial stage of |
| 1:36.5 | healing was learning about whole foods and making some simple swaps that were not hard, but for me |
| 1:41.1 | feel so much better in my body. For example, I swapped artificial sweeteners for real sweeteners, |
| 1:45.6 | skim milk for full fat, etc. Tossing out the low fat foods also helped me feel more satiated, |
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