How Our Relationship With Our Bodies Has Changed

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, we published an advice column, offering advice to a Women Who Travel reader who was feeling self-conscious about stepping out in a swimsuit on an upcoming group trip because of changes to her weight during the pandemic. The question and subsequent advice from Amy Pence-Brown and Stephanie Yeboah, two body image advocates and writers, led us to an even deeper conversation about our bodies—and how the pandemic has affected our relationships with them. So, this week, we're joined by Amy and Stephanie to chat about how they got to the place of self-love they're at now, how the conversation has shifted around fatness during the pandemic, and how we can have healthier relationship with weight changes.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condi Nass Traveler. I'm Lale Arakoglu
0:10.0	and I'm joined, as always, by my co-host Meredith Carey. Hello. A few weeks ago, we published an
0:16.0	advice column helping a women who travel follower who was feeling anxious about wearing a bathing suit on an
0:20.8	upcoming group trip. And like many of us, her body had changed. helping a women who travel follower who was feeling anxious about wearing a bathing suit on an upcoming
0:21.1	group trip. And like many of us, her body had changed over the course of the pandemic and she
0:26.6	wasn't feeling as confident as she had before. Turns out there are a lot of us feeling the same way.
0:32.0	So we wanted to dedicate a little more time to talking about our relationships with our bodies
0:35.9	and how that's changed over
0:37.7	the past year and a half. Today, we're joined by Amy Pence Brown, a body image activist, writer
0:43.7	and creator of Radcamp, a body positive boot camp for feminists and feminist teens, and
0:49.1	Stephanie Yeboa, a self-love advocate, blogger, and author of Fatally Ever After,
0:54.6	a fat black girl's guide to living life unapologetically.
0:58.0	Thank you for joining both of us.
1:00.1	Thank you for having us.
1:01.5	Yeah, glad to be here.
1:03.6	So I'm curious what your journey has been like to get here
1:06.8	to being advocates for self-love and opening up this conversation about body image?
1:12.4	So I guess for me, so I've kind of been in the, I guess, body image slash body positivity,
1:20.1	fat acceptance space since 2012, I think. And for me, my sort of journey towards sort of self-love and learning how to love the body that I'm in has been a very long time in coming, maybe about 16 or 17 years. And for me, it was definitely when I started my blog in 2008 and I started joining networks and platforms such
1:49.0	as Tumblr and some Facebook groups and things like that where I started seeing these small
1:54.5	communities of women who looked like me and were shaped like me sort of professing their love of their bodies and themselves
2:02.9	and whether it was through the medium of content such as photos or videos, think pieces, poetry, things like that,
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