The Body Image Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Anna is an empowerment coach, photographer and circus expert with a strong focus on social justice. She finds creative solutions to help people reclaim their bodies, their energy and their time. In this closing episode of The Body Image Podcast – for some time – Anna shares a warm, caring, authentic and passionate discussion with us. You won’t want to miss it.

More specifically, we talk:

• Anna’s unique story,
• What is a social circus,
• Embodying your body when it has been weaponized,
• Finding joy in a recovery process in a safe setting,
• Why photos where you feel you “look hot” are helpful,
• Photos’ affect on our psychology,
• Fatphobia in our culture,
• Ending generational body harm,
• Why your kids and family need photos of you,
• Social justice and accessibility in work, and
• So much more!

Anna's Website  // Anna's Coaching - Self Care School  // Anna's Newsletter

Whitney Russell, MS, LPC-S, CEDS-S, a Licensed Professional Counselor-Supervisor and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist-Supervisor, talks about anxiety and moving beyond restriction in eating disorder recovery. Whitney is also a mom of four and the owner and founder of Brave Haven Counseling in Richardson, Texas.

Inside the show, we discuss:

• What does restriction mean?
• Restriction beyond just food
• The unmet needs behind restriction
• Allowing yourself rest
• How to sit with vulnerability
• Food and anxiety
• How to step outside of diet culture
• Meeting unmet needs
• The importance of defining what health look like for you
• How and why to care for yourself and feed yourself when hunger cues aren’t there
• How eating disorders and restricting tendencies can exist in any size body, and
• Much more

Whitney's website / Podcast / Instagram / 

Find full show notes & learn more at CorinneDobbas.com

Elizabeth Scott LCSW, CEDS-S, discusses the difference between body image and embodiment in this rich podcast episode. Elizabeth is an educator and psychotherapist whose work focuses on the intersection of embodiment, social justice, and mindfulness. She's the Co-Founder and Director of Training for The Body Positive as well as a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist and iaedpTM Approved Supervisor. And she trains mental health providers and dietitians to use her Big Hearted Embodiment model. This episode with Elizabeth is a treat.

More specifically, we talk about:

• How the term “body image” is dissociative
• What embodiment means
• The difference between body image and embodiment
• Learning how to connect with our bodies and beauty
• Factors that promote embodiment
• How to “turn towards” ourselves
• How to trust the authority of your own body
• What is intuitive self-care?
• Cultivating a quality of self-kindness

Learn more about Elizabeth and her trainings here.

Kristina Bruce, Certified Body Trust Provider and Body Acceptance Coach, joins us for the concluding episode of season 3 (and it's an episode not to miss). Kristina delves into letting go of the thin ideal, privileges of being in a smaller body, weight stigma, what learning to accept your body really looks like, and so much more. Kristina also shares her personal food and body story and how she stopped equating her worth with her weight.

More specifically, Kristina talks about:

• Her family's involvement in her feelings about her body and weight
• How her perception of her appearance affected her feelings of worth
• How people treated her differently when she lost weight (and what happened when the weight came back)
• How Kristina’s identity became wrapped up with health and wellness 
• How food and striving to control her body affected her romantic relationship
• How Kristina stopped equating her worth with her weight and left diet culture
• Thin privilege
• Working with the fear of weight gain
• Weight science
• Changing the narrative around weight and health
• How to accept your body when weight stigma and thin privilege exists
• Finding value and worth outside of your appearance
• Helpful tools as weight gain happens
• And so much more!

Kristina's website // instagram // facebook // YouTube

Learn more about The Body Image Podcast host, Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD, here.

Whitney Catalano, a registered dietitian who helps people stop dieting and take the power back from their inner bullies, breaks down why eating less is never the answer for binge eating. She explores why restriction and deprivation are so hurtful in healing from binge eating and what is helpful.

More specifically, inside the episode we explore:

- Whitney’s personal dieting story

- How you can have a good body experience on even the worst body image day

- Why our bodies need to be fed

- How our body doesn’t know the difference between a diet and food insecurity

- Emotions and eating

- Did the binge eating come first or the dieting?

- Guilt, shame and secrecy in binge eating

- When unconditional permission isn't enough

- Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) in making peace with food

- What’s absolutely not helpful in binge eating

- Why you may not be able to just rely on hunger cues

- Why acceptance is so key

- Letting go of control with food

- The intersection of childhood and dieting

Whitney's website // instagram // podcast // club TYB

Learn more about The Body Image Podcast host, Corinne Dobbas, MS, RD here.

Rachel Coleman, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, talks about mindfulness, food, feelings, and coping skills to respond to those feelings. 

• How mindfulness is connected to body image work
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) & DBT skills
• The nuances of "emotional eating"
• Exploring what to do when "emotional eating" feels distressing to you
• Separating feelings and food (or disordered eating behaviors)
• Showing yourself grace

Linda Tucker, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Body Image Recovery Coach, talks about shame resilience, the difference between body image healing and intuitive eating work, intuitive eating myths, and so much more. Throughout this conversation Linda provides so much context, nuance, and care. This is an episode not to miss!

Also in this episode we talk:

• Why body image is more than just how you feel in your body
• The connection between shame and body image
• The systems of oppression in diet culture (and keeping them out of recovery work)
• Beginning to create a more flexible relationship with food
• Why intuitive eating work is not the same as body image healing work
• The difference between intuitive eating and instinctual and mindful eating
• Moving from a place of fixing to place of exploring

Kim Hoban, Registered Dietitian, NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor talks about body image and the transition into motherhood. She openly (and vulnerably) shares about her relationship with her body before, during, and after having her baby. She talks about your change in identity upon becoming a mother, connecting with your body after birth, and what to do when you want your pre-baby body back.

Kim also talks about:

• Her personal body image story
• Identity and body image
• The importance of support
• The identity shift in becoming a mom
• Postpartum body image struggles
• How she began connecting with her body and belly again after her cesarean birth
• Finding joyful movement after having a baby
• What to do when you want your pre-baby body back
• Being gentle with yourself
• And more

Kim's website // Instagram // Podcast

You can learn more about The Body Image Podcast host, Corinne Dobbas, here.

Laura Westmoreland, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Certified Body Trust Provider, talks about how an injury impacted her body image. She shares what helped her move through the experience and how no matter who you are, we all have challenging body image moments and feelings. Laura also talks about how healing is an ongoing journey, the privilege of being in an able body, joyful movement, the experience of being embodied, and so much more. 

Laura's website // instagram // facebook

Learn more about Corinne Dobbas, The Body Image Podcast host, here.