Your Body Is Not a Problem to Fix

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Dr. Becky

Kids & Family, Parenting, Education, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith joins Dr. Becky to discuss why it’s critical that we change the way we talk to kids about fat, weight, health, and self-worth.

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0:00.0	I want to share some words that either they were said to me or they were said like even
0:08.2	just around me, but there are things that still just like live in my body and take up space.
0:16.4	Okay.
0:17.4	I was so bad this week.
0:21.0	I really have to eat better next week.
0:24.4	I have to go to the gym the way I just feel so disgusting.
0:29.6	Oh, you're so tiny.
0:31.8	How did you guess so tiny?
0:33.5	You just had a baby and you're so tiny.
0:37.8	Uh, I don't know why she doesn't just like take better care of herself especially because
0:44.8	she's dating these days.
0:46.7	Mm-hmm.
0:48.7	Okay.
0:49.7	Now go.
0:52.7	No.
0:53.7	Yeah, all of that, all of that and so many more.
1:00.9	Yeah, I mean, exactly what you said.
1:04.3	These comments are made around kids, around us growing up, it's a way women in particular
1:11.0	are taught to narrate and perform our bodies and these comments stay with you.
1:17.4	They live, rent free in your head forever.
1:19.3	Pretty much.
1:21.8	I'm Dr. Becky and this is good inside.
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