It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello everybody. How we doing? Some men, myself included, don't like to talk about this,

but it is incredibly common for many of us humans, whatever our gender, to be at war with our bodies.

We're trying to live up to the people we see in the movies, on social media, or even the

versions of ourselves in old pictures.

This never enoughness, this insufficiency, can lead to an ambient level of self-loathing

that can be incredibly destructive.

Never mind what it can do to your relationship to food, which can be downright dangerous.

Body image issues and eating disorders are frequently

discussed among women, less so among men. We tend to hide our dysfunction behind life hacky tactics,

such as performatively restrictive diets, absurdly hard workouts, etc. To be clear, in case I've

created the wrong impression here,

this is not an episode aimed solely at men.

It's for everyone.

That said, my guest today says straight white men are usually the most resistant

to the antidote that she proposes to body and food-related dysfunction.

And I will be honest.

She occasionally uses the type of language that the old

and more judgmental version of myself might have dismissed out of hand. But if you have those

skeptical tendencies, do me a solid. Curb them for a minute and hear this person out. She has

both wisdom and science on her side. Her name is Sonia Renee Taylor. She's the author

of three books, including The Body is Not an Apology, the Power of Radical Self-Love. She's the founder

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