#661 Non-Binary & Non-Monogamous - Jessi Kneeland Returns
Mental Illness Happy Hour
Paul Gilmartin
4.8 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Jessi Kneeland (@JessiKneeland) is a body image coach who gets real about their own issues and what brought them to this work. In this episode, Jessi's second visit to the podcast, they talk about self-perception as well as what the struggle can be like for trans people today. They also discuss the workings and merits of non-monogamous relationships. Be sure to check out Jessi's new book, Body Neutral.
- Jessi’s website: https://www.jessikneeland.com/
- The page on body neutrality, if you like: https://www.jessikneeland.com/bodyneutrality
- Her instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessikneeland or @jessikneeland
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jessikneeland?lang=en or @jessikneeland
- Her podcast— This Is (Not) About Your Body: https://rss.com/podcasts/jessikneeland/
- Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JessiKneeland
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 661 with my return guest, Jesse Mealand. |
| 0:06.9 | It was really nice to see them again. |
| 0:09.0 | I hadn't seen them in, I don't know, was it five years since we recorded last anyways. |
| 0:16.2 | Really, really fruitful conversation talking about them coming out as non-binary, being |
| 0:23.5 | in a non-monogamous relationship. |
| 0:25.8 | I don't know, I think it's a great conversation. |
| 0:28.4 | I hope you dig it. |
| 0:31.1 | My name is Paul Gilmarton. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm not a therapist. |
| 0:33.1 | Good Lord, no. |
| 0:34.8 | I was a former jackass on Basic Cable, cooking chicken, cracking jokes, touring around |
| 0:42.0 | the country, making people giggle. |
| 0:46.0 | And here I am talking about heavy shit, what happened? |
| 0:51.6 | My brain is a little, it's a little fried today. |
| 0:54.6 | I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in a teleconference for mental health. |
| 1:04.0 | Put together by a bunch of nice people from Connecticut and it was from six to eight |
| 1:10.4 | in the morning for me. |
| 1:12.5 | And I go to bed about four in the morning. |
| 1:14.6 | So I decided I'm just going to stay up and plow through it, drink some coffee. |
| 1:20.4 | So needless to say, my sleep schedule is a little messed up. |
| 1:24.0 | I feel like I'm somewhere between a thousand feet underwater and jogging on the moon. |
| 1:31.9 | Maybe a little bit of both. |
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