No Hierarchy to Suffering: Body Grief with Jayne Mattingly

This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice

Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network

The Challenge, Self Improvement, Sarah Rice, Mental Health, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jayne Mattingly is a disability and body image advocate, eating disorder recovery coach, artist, and founder of The AND Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to destigmatizing mobility aids. Through her lived experience with chronic illness, disability, and an eating disorder, she developed the concept of Body Grief. In this episode, she breaks down Body Grief’s seven stages, as she and Sarah dive into the emotional toll of living in a changing body, the importance of community in the healing process, and how to move toward body trust. Jayne shares her personal journey and offers insight into reframing our relationship with our bodies. Don’t miss this powerful conversation, and pre-order This is Body Grief, for a deeper dive.

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0:00.0	As a reminder, the information provided in this podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only.
0:06.5	It is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
0:11.8	Always seek advice of your therapist or qualified mental health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition or mental health disorder.
0:19.4	Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you've
0:23.3	heard on this podcast.
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0:29.9	based on the information provided.
0:31.2	Now, let's dive right in.
0:42.6	Hello, friends, and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host Sarah and with me this week is Jane Maddingly. Jane is a disability advocate and eating disorder
0:47.9	recovery coach. She's the CEO of recovery love and care and she has written an amazing book
0:53.5	called This Is Body Grief.
0:56.3	You guys are going to absolutely love her. We're going to dive in to how to make peace with
1:01.2	the loss that comes with living in a body. I'm so excited to have our guest. So welcome to the
1:06.4	show. Jane, I'm so excited to have you here. Thank you so much for joining us.
1:12.3	Thank you for having me.
1:21.7	I was talking a little bit before we started our episode, but I just have to tell you, she wrote an amazing book for all of our listeners called This is Body Grief.
1:26.7	And it is not often at, you know, I read a lot of books as a therapist.
1:30.1	I have a lot of guests on here and and a lot of times we hear the same things like over and over maybe like in a different package or or said in a
1:37.9	new way which is wonderful and important but it is not often that I read a book that is introducing me to a totally new concept that I think is so important.
1:50.7	I don't know why we haven't made this connection or talked about this or focused on this more in our work as therapists.
1:59.1	And so today we're diving into body grief. And you're going to
2:02.4	introduce this to us and talk to us all about what this is. But first, I want to just talk
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