Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

I’m interviewing Rachel Molenda, Intuitive Eating & Body Image Coach and Host of the Fill Your Cup Podcast. We’re talking about the influence of healthism on our relationship with food, how to tell if your health choices are disordered, and when is it the right time to focus on health. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/197 In this episode, we chat about: - How we’ve made health part of our status and identity, which encourages people to keep turning to diet culture, - Tips for trying to undo beliefs inherited from diet culture, - Why health shouldn’t be a hobby, - What a healthy relationship with food looks like, - Rachel’s advice to someone having trouble getting past the diet culture way of looking at food, - That our needs change every day, and you need to check-in with yourself each day, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/197

I’m interviewing Sarah Salmon, TEDx speaker and Coach, who specializes in helping overwhelmed introverts get their energy back. We’re talking about what it REALLY means to be an introvert, why the world was built for extroverts, how to know if you’re burned out, and how to set boundaries so you can recharge and focus on doing what you want. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/196 In this episode, we chat about: - How Sarah got into this work and how she helps people, - Some of the myths around being an introvert, - How the world is built in preference for extroverts, which makes introverts feel like there’s something wrong with them, - How freeing it can be to settle into who you really are and not who you’re expected to be, - Tips for setting healthy boundaries, - How to manage the guilt of feeling like you’re letting people down, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/196

I’m interviewing Danni Adams, body image coach, activist, and writer, about how fatphobia impacts Black communities, the adultification of Black girls, and medical fatphobia and its impact on our well-being. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/195 In this episode, we chat about: - How Dani got into fat activism and body image coaching, - The perception of fat Black women and how that stigma influences how they are treated, - How medical fatphobia is especially violent to Black people, - How this pandemic has exposed weight discrimination, - How fatphobia stems from racism and is directly linked to anti-Blackness, - Advice if you or your child are experiencing medical fatphobia, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/195

I’m talking about why it’s so hard to stop dieting, the addictive nature of diets, why this makes it so hard to break free, and what life is like without it, as part of the Body Image Series. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/194 In this episode, I chat about: - How dieting is like a drug in our culture, - That there’s an anticipation of this perfect life and perfect body on the radar that keeps us hooked to dieting with a false sense of fulfilment, - That the fear of the unknown is at the root of why it’s so hard to let go of dieting, - How this is an opportunity to find new coping mechanisms that will actually help you process your feelings and feel better about yourself, regardless of your size, - What life is like without dieting, - How fulfilment is different from happiness, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/194

I’m talking about why dieting and body shame are often coping mechanisms, why that can make accepting your body so hard, and how they distract us from getting at the real issue and keep us turning to diets for an answer, as part of the Body Image Series. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/193 In this episode, I chat about: - The concept of “emotional dieting” and “emotional weight fixation,” - How emotional dieting distracts us from getting at the real issue and keeps us turning to diets for an answer, - That we’ve been conditioned to think that our bodies are a problem, so it’s no surprise when that becomes our way of thinking about ourselves or processing emotions, - Why this makes accepting your body so hard, - Why the pandemic has been so hard on people’s body image, - How to separate from these things in order to truly move forward, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/193

I’m interviewing Olivia Scobie, social worker and author of Impossible Parenting, about the culture of impossible parenting, its impact on our mental health, and how we need a shift from self-care to self-parenting. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/192 In this episode, we chat about: - How Olivia’s own experiences led her to work in perinatal mental health, - What the culture of impossible parenting is and that it’s very outwardly oriented, - How diet culture has permeated into the culture of impossible parenting, - That it’s normal to have contradictory feelings, because it’s not possible to fully escape impossible parenting or diet culture, so you need to be gentle with yourself, - How parenting involves a lot of guilt, and a question to ask yourself to help you through it, - What self-parenting is and how to navigate it, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/192

I’m talking about the weight set point theory - what it is, how dieting impacts it, and why using it as a goal weight can be problematic to healing your relationship to food and your body, as part of the Body Image Series. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/191 In this episode, we chat about: - What the weight set point theory is, - How we don’t have as much control over our weight as we’ve been led to believe, - How dieting impacts our set point, - Why the idea of a set point can trigger the diet mentality, - What to focus on instead of getting to your set point, - Why our happiness and acceptance can’t be conditional on achieving a certain body size, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/191

I’m interviewing Louise Adams, clinical psychologist and founder of UNTRAPPED, about the hazardous influence of body image ideals in society and on social media. We also talk about the dangerous agenda behind the Obesity Collective, its worldwide reach, and what we can do to fight this agenda. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/190 In this episode, we chat about: - Louise’s history with dieting and what brought her to this work, - Her reaction to fitness influencers on Instagram and the dangers of thin people co-opting body positivity, - The expense associated with trying to attain the “ideal body,” - What the Obesity Collective is and the dangerous agenda behind it, - Why the shift from the “war on obesity” conversation to “combat weight stigma” isn’t necessarily the good thing it appears to be, - Why you need to really examine who is behind the media you are consuming, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/190

I’m interviewing Nic McDermid, fat activist and intersectional feminist, about how fatphobia is rampant in the eating disorder recovery world and the harm that this does, what they can do better, the importance of reclaiming the word fat, and how to navigate acceptance and recovery with chronic pain. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/189 In this episode, we chat about: - Nic’s experience recovering from an eating disorder and seeking treatment in a fat body, - Ways that microaggressions and fatphobia show up in the eating disorder landscape, - That reclaiming the word fat is a continuous process and how curating her social media feeds helped, - How making people uncomfortable can be a positive thing and why Nic does that with her online presence, - How fatphobia in medicine impacts people with chronic illness and pain, - That you are the expert in your own body, Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/189

I’m talking about when you “intellectually get it” but still feel bad in your body, what this process can look like, and what you can do to move forward and feel better in your body, as part of the Body Image Series. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/188 In this episode, I chat about: - A useful analogy between becoming a parent and starting on the path to a positive body image, - TWO things we can do to feel better in our bodies and why one of them is WAY more powerful than the other,  - Where “intellectually getting it” sits within the 4 stages of acceptance and how to bust past that barrier, - Why you have to be intentional about challenging your negative thoughts, - That it’s normal to still have bad body days, - ONE question to visit daily to propel you towards giving less F’s about your body. Plus so much more! Get the shownotes:  summerinnanen.com/188