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The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

S5 EP15: Body Image and Dysmorphia

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

Constantly Varied Gear

Health & Fitness

4.9724 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What is body neutrality? And why is it important? Jessi Kneeland can explain. In today’s episode, you’ll hear from Jessi, who is a certified life coach and clinical sexologist who helps the people she works with move toward body neutrality, radical self-acceptance, and a sense of self-worth and confidence. Listen in to hear what Jessi has to say about why body image isn’t really about your actual body and the root causes of body image issues.

Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

  • The belief that looking a certain way will change the way you feel about yourself
  • Why body image issues aren’t actually about your body
  • What body neutrality is
  • The difference between body positivity and body neutrality
  • Categories of root causes
  • How to start to heal our personal relationships with our bodies
  • What carrying around a body size identity means
  • Why we should stop celebrating weight loss
  • Advice for how to counteract diet culture
  • Knowing how to handle comments about your body

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Another one is, I call it the high achiever, having really high standards for achievement

0:03.6

and accomplishment in which the person is attaching their worth and value to achievement

0:06.9

and accomplishment.

0:08.3

And this can actually be anything.

0:09.6

A lot of times it comes from like a person who had good grades and like pursued a very

0:13.0

particular career path and achieves in other ways.

0:15.9

But then it gets projected on this socially, really important area, which is health and fitness and body and weight

0:22.4

and all these things.

0:23.8

So now we're looking at someone who essentially is using their body to get social status

0:27.5

and respect.

0:29.2

The core need that they have is to get respect and status.

0:33.0

And you can just imagine this person pretty easily.

0:34.9

They're the marathon runner who is like doing everything

0:37.7

right, everything by the book. They have absolutely no connection to what they actually want to

0:41.1

eat or do or think or feel. They're just trying to do things right to make people think they

0:44.4

have their shit together. It's all often very much in that line.

0:51.6

The big question is this.

0:55.3

In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals?

1:04.0

We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health.

1:11.0

Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out

1:16.7

and eating well a part of your life.

1:20.3

Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere.

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