Learning to Slay the Beasts Podcast
Health & Fitness
In this week's podcast, I talk about the health, wellness and fitness industry's obsession with before and after photos.
After scrolling through my IG feed and seeing one too many before and after photos, captioned with "look how horrible I used to look?", I am calling it what it is - "fat-shaming". Transformation Tuesday photos celebrate our "new self", but at the cost of saying that our "old self" was lacking, unworthy, stupid, lazy, unmotivated etc.
I am tired of the negative narrative around health and fitness. It denotes that our "old self" was "bad" somehow, just because we didn't have the motivation or knowledge that our "new self" has. Maybe we were struggling with anxiety or depression, maybe we didn't have a great health coach or family support, maybe we couldn't afford healthy foods, maybe our hormones were out of whack. There can be a million reasons why someone is struggling with "weight"!
I think we should move to celebrating where we are at in our health journey and finding positive forms of motivation (like wanting to reduce inflammation, increase mobility and strength etc.). The focus on putting our "old self" down is not body positive, it is fat-shaming.
In this episode, I give a few tips about how I am reaching to be more body positive.
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Episode 62: Raising Strong, Confident Daughters with Anasha Khan
Episode 61: Radical Self-Acceptance and Being Gluten Free with Carrie Veatch
Episode 60: Micro-Meditation
Episode 59: Treating PANDAS, PANS and Lyme with Dr. Roseann Capanna-Hodge
Episode 58: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Episode 57: Grief, Loss and Self Care with Amanda Ferrat
Episode 56: Moving from Body Shrinking to Body Positive
Episode 55: Pendulum by S.E. German Q & A
Episode 54: Self Love Meditation
Episode 53: Happiness Habits
Episode 52: A Parental Perspective on PANDAS/PANS with Marnie & Richard Deschenes
Episode 51: Reducing Stress to Lose Fat with Lydia DiFrancesco
Episode 50: PANDAS/PANS Fundamentals with Dr. Scott and Dr. Ellen Antoine
Episode 49: Run Happy with Stephen B
Episode 48: Clarity Meditation
BONUS Episode (47): 40 Nuggets of Wisdom as I Turn 40
Episode 46: Year End and New Year Reflection Prompts
Episode 45: Wintertime Hot Chocolate Meditation
Episode 44: Prepping for a Different Kind of Holiday Season
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