#165: Joyful Movement and Body Liberation with Bevin Branlandingham of Fat Kid Dance Party
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Season 6 premiere! Body-liberation activist and Fat Kid Dance Party founder Bevin Branlandingham joins us to discuss her journey from a difficult childhood to finding body liberation, the role of joyful movement in self-acceptance, what inspired her to leave a career in law to become a dance aerobics instructor, her ongoing practices of self-love and self-compassion, and so much more! Plus, Christy answers a listener question about how to know whether you’re meant for a career helping people with recovery.
A childhood of bullying because of her weight kept Bevin off the dance floor. When she found body liberation activism, the idea that all bodies are worthy of love no matter what, it changed her life. She has been reclaiming dance floors ever since! Teaching, performing and writing about body liberation for over fifteen years, Bevin identifies as a thought leader in the body positive, body liberation, and fat acceptance movements. She is an AFAA certified group exercise instructor and developed Fat Kid Dance Party (For ALL Sizes to Heal from Body Oppression) to help other folks learn to love their bodies, embrace their awkwardness, and open up to self care! Find her online at queerfatfemme.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my online course Intuitive Eating Fundamentals. |
| 0:04.5 | If you're ready to leave diet culture behind and reclaim the life it stole from you, |
| 0:08.4 | learn more and sign up at chrishtiharrison.com slash course. That's chrishtiharrison.com slash course. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, a podcast about intuitive eating, health at every size, body liberation, |
| 0:20.3 | and taking down diet culture. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I'm an anti-diet |
| 0:24.7 | registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor, offering online courses and |
| 0:29.5 | programs to help people all over the world make peace with food. Join me here every week as I |
| 0:34.3 | talk with interesting people from all walks of life about their relationships with food and their |
| 0:38.5 | bodies. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 165 of Food Psych. I'm your host, Christy Harrison, and I am so glad |
| 1:01.2 | to be back from our summer hiatus with a brand new season for you, which is season six, |
| 1:07.2 | which is amazing because that means it's been five years since I put my first episode out into the |
| 1:11.7 | world and wow, how we've grown, how far we have come in those five years. It's been really |
| 1:17.6 | incredible. It's been such a journey and I'm so grateful to you all for being there with me for |
| 1:22.2 | that journey. Those of you who've been listening since the beginning and welcome to all the new |
| 1:26.0 | folks who've joined us since then. I'm really excited for many more years to come with all of you, |
| 1:31.7 | starting with this season, which I am psyched about because we're going even deeper into the world |
| 1:36.8 | of intuitive eating and health at every size and the anti-diet movement. Every year we've just |
| 1:41.9 | reached a new depth in terms of how far we've gone into this movement and I just can't wait |
| 1:47.8 | for this season. We have some awesome guests coming up, starting with today's guest who is |
| 1:52.2 | Bevin Brand landing ham, a body liberation activist, and the founder of Fat Kid Dance Party, which is |
| 1:58.3 | as fun as it sounds. We talked about her journey from a difficult childhood to finding body |
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