Episode 259: Challenging Cultural Beauty and Wellness Standards with Melissa Toller

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We are in the last stretch of the year and it’s business as usual over here at Team YKAL with a brand new episode!. This week on the podcast, speaker, writer, and educator Melissa Toler joins me. Her work encourages people to make the connection between our culture's oppressive beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-acceptance. I’ve been following Melissa and her work online and social media for a while now. I love her message and I was so excited for the chance to speak with her. Today, we talk about challenging the cultural standards of wellness and beauty, plus diet culture and it’s messaging. We also talk about how we all have internalized thoughts around certain body types, including black bodies, brown bodies, or even trans bodies and how it perpetuates harm. Melissa reminds us the work of unpacking and unlearning our internal body biases is lifelong work. In this episode you’ll hear: Melissa’s pivot away from the wellness industry and why she became disillusioned with it (7 minutes and 24 seconds) How Melissa challenges the cultural standards of beauty and wellness (13:10) Questioning the messages we receive about body image, health and fitness (17:04) How health and wellness professionals can shift their education and start to question their current practices and philosophies (24:28) Fatphobia and unpacking internal biases (26:22) Melissa shares her story of her own weight loss obsession and how she overcame it (34:09) http://yourkickasslife.com/259 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	You cannot say that you do not have certain thoughts about people with certain bodies. You cannot say that you don't, haven't believed or
0:39.9	internalized the messages around black bodies, disabled bodies, brown bodies, fat bodies,
0:46.2	trans bodies. Like you can't, you just, I'm just going to see people are not honest if they say that,
0:51.7	oh, I've been able to work through that or I don't see people differently.
0:55.0	That's just not true.
0:56.1	So I think the first thing is to just admit that.
1:01.1	This is Your Kickass Life podcast episode number 259 with guest Melissa Toller.
1:07.5	This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen, a no BS guide to self-help and badassery.
1:15.9	Because ladies, let's face it, lights too short for it to not kick ass.
1:22.1	And here's your host, the girl who served it up straight with a side of crazy.
1:27.1	Andrea Owen.
1:29.4	Hey there, Askikers.
1:30.5	Welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:32.5	I am so glad that you are here.
1:34.8	As always, it is December, y'all.
1:37.6	The last stretch of the year.
1:40.9	And I know that this should be the time of year where I'm like, you know, it's your last
1:46.6	chance to do all the things in 2018 that you wanted to do. I'm not that life coach. And sometimes
1:51.6	I feel bad about it, but I'm like, eh, whatever. Business as usual over here. I just feel like
2:00.2	the pressure, right? The pressure of having to make these
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