Breaking Free: Your Recovery. Your Way.
Health & Fitness:Alternative Health
In this episode, we zero in on body comparison. Liv and Tiffany share about beginning to compare our bodies to others as very young girls. We explore how our culture is hyper-focused on bodies, how it begins to appear early in life how it’s harmful, and what we can do about it.
We ask:
-How many times a day do you check your body in the mirror and then adjusting your clothes, and try to make yourself look smaller?
-What does your Facebook and Instagram feed look like? Do you see only small bodies?
-How often are we body-bashing ourselves or listening to others comment on people’s bodies?
We dive into this awesome article by Abby Langer, R.D. in Self. It explains in depth why even complimenting people on weight loss is harmful. https://www.self.com/story/we-really-need-to-stop-complimenting-people-on-weight-loss?utm_sq=g5hbx3uhyc&fbclid=IwAR3l0xEklfweb4GFbnI8mR9SxvHKoQgbITbxsItFYbMK554oX-xvpx8QZGw
We also look at this fantastic article by Fat Girl Flow on why our body (and our health) is nobody’s business but our own. https://fatgirlflow.com/afraid-youre-going-to-die-fat/
We are not JUST a body. We ring the bell for Lindsay Kite of Beauty Redefined/ Check out her great TED talk about being more than just a body: https://youtu.be/uDowwh0EU4w
Tiffany talks about her passion for helping women that know their value and worth is not related to how their body looks or what they weigh.
Tiffany’s Womanifesto: https://www.coachtiffanyrn.com/womanifesto.html
We dive into one of our favorite Principles of Intuitive Eating — Respect your body.
• Acceptance
• Gratitude
• Self-care
• No longer commenting on bodies
• Fighting fatphobia, starting within!
We ring a bell for Michelle Elman at #scarrednotscared. We encourage you to read her post “Fat is not a Feeling”:
https://www.instagram.com/tv/BxaiuTRBmI0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_lin
We also share more about the Health at Every Size components:
Check out the Health at Every Size website here: https://haescommunity.com/
We invite you to subscribe to our podcast, and tell us the ways in which you’re breaking free in our free Facebook community: Breaking Free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/breakingfreecommunity.
013 "Real Alcoholics" and "Real Recovery"
012 Robert Ashford on Reducing Stigma
011 Life After 12-Step Recovery
010 Did AA Save Your Life Or Did You?
009 Jennifer Matesa on Sober Sex
008 Tiffany's Story
007 Liv's Story
006 Questioning 12-Step Recovery
005 Helpful Aspects of 12-Step Recovery
004 All Pathways of Recovery
003 The Essentials of Recovery
002 What Do We Mean By Recovery?
001 Defining Breaking Free
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