How To!: Be Free Of Body Shame
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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We're constantly getting bombarded with messages about our bodies: They're too big. They're too small. They're not muscular enough, not curvy enough, and so on and so on. Rebecca has lived in a bigger body all her life and she wants the messaging to stop. She's done all the things—followed plus-size influencers, deemphasized weight from her health goals, tried to rewire how she thinks about weight. But it's just not working. In this episode, Carvell Wallace brings in Ronald Young Jr., host of Weight For It. Ronald challenges the notion that we need to love our bodies and helps Rebecca navigate away from stigmatized "fixes" and toward a place of acceptance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, how to team. My name is Rebecca. I have had this question for a long time. I am like probably many people overweight and I've always been that way and I'm now 39 I still find I'm |
| 0:20.3 | influenced by you know different diet cultures that come around or looking in the mirror and being like, |
| 0:27.0 | oh, well, this isn't the ideal body type. |
| 0:30.0 | How do we change that, you know? |
| 0:33.0 | So if you guys have any advice or answers, |
| 0:37.0 | I would love to hear them. |
| 0:39.0 | I really enjoy the show and hope to hear from you to. |
| 0:44.0 | Bye. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome to How Toe, I'm Carvel Wallace and if you haven't already guessed today we're |
| 0:50.5 | going to be talking about bodies, specifically how we value or don't value them |
| 0:56.0 | based on how they look, on their size or shape or ability, and how deeply all of that rather |
| 1:02.4 | arbitrary ranking can really mess with your head and screw up your sense of self-worth. |
| 1:07.0 | We know this topic can be triggering for some people, so if this episode is not for you, then take care of yourself. |
| 1:14.2 | And we'll see you next week. |
| 1:16.2 | But for those of you sticking around, |
| 1:17.6 | I think it's safe to assume that you too |
| 1:19.8 | are being inundated with messages about your body. |
| 1:23.1 | It's too big, it's too small, it's not muscular enough, |
| 1:26.0 | it's not curvy enough, etc. |
| 1:29.7 | And even though it's always bad, |
| 1:31.8 | it's particularly bad at the beginning of the year when |
| 1:34.6 | advertisers jump on the resolution trend to sell you quick fixes and everyone seems |
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