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34. HERself Expert: Melainie Rogers on Diet Culture, Disordered Eating, and Navigating These Subjects with Your Kids

HERself

Abby and Amy

Best Self, Comparison, Opportunity, Health & Fitness, Purpose, Grow, Education, Parenting, Honest, Vulnerable, Mental Health, Future, Kids & Family, Real, Self-improvement

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Shame. Guilt. Secretive thoughts. As women, many of us have insecurities and are lacking freedom in regards to food and body-image. With only 10% of those with an eating disorder actually getting help for their issues, research shows that there are many people who struggle for years and decades with intrusive thoughts and destructive habits. It can be a fine line between being healthy and having it take over your life, mind and time and Melainie Rogers speaks to all of this in her role as an ...

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At least weight neutrality,

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we're just neutral about weight.

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We don't have to be positive about our body's the stretch,

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but just to be appreciative and grateful for the body that we have,

0:12.0

instead of judging it so harshly. It will free up so much

0:16.0

of our energy, so much of our thoughts we can dedicate to other things. If we're in a conversation,

0:22.1

we can be truly immersed in the conversation

0:24.5

rather than thinking about you know this waistband on my jeans is digging into me

0:28.6

because I ate too much last night. You know imagine what that would feel like. I would love that for all women.

0:34.4

I'm Amy and I'm Abby and as women we are constantly comparing ourselves to others. But your life

0:45.7

isn't supposed to look like hers. Being your best self means standing firm in your

0:50.5

decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose.

0:54.4

We get vulnerable and real with an honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face.

1:00.8

Every woman listening gets the opportunity to choose what life looks like for herself.

1:06.0

Today we have Malaney Rogers joining the podcast and Malaney brings years of expertise as a professional in eating disorder cases and also some personal experience as well.

1:20.5

And this is a topic that's near and dear to my heart. It was only recently that

1:25.2

I really started talking about my history of issues surrounding food and body image. And when I say

1:30.9

history, if you go back to episode two, I mean two decades of having daily battles.

1:35.4

So we're really, really looking forward to this episode today.

1:38.4

But before we dive into all the questions, Malini, could you introduce yourself and also let us know what you do

1:45.4

and why you're so passionate about it. Absolutely first and foremost an absolute

1:49.6

pleasure to be here with you both today. So thank you for having me. A little bit about me, as you probably can pick up, I have an accent. I'm originally from Australia, from Melbourne Australia, and I came out here to New York City which is where I'm based

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