I’m interviewing Michelle Vina-Baltsas about agism, how to manage body changes as you age, the increased expectations put on women as they age and how to handle the struggles that pop up around mid-life. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/172 We discuss: - Michelle’s history with dieting, how she left diet culture and how that inspired her to help other mid-life women to do the same, - Michelle’s mixed-race identity and how that influenced the way she felt about herself growing up and how she’s owning it today,  - The influence of aging/agism,  - The unique struggles that pop up around body image during mid-life, - How the idea that we’re no longer visible comes into play as we age and how to work through those feelings,  - Navigating feelings of mortality and uncertainty as you age, - How to practice self-compassion, including 3 steps to aid in compassionate self-talk, - How to use gratitude to appreciate who you are and body changes,  - Ways to change your relationship to aging,  - How to navigate the information about perimenopause and menopause without being influenced by diet culture, - How to focus on health without having it tied to weight, Plus, so much more! Get the shownotes: summerinnanen.com/172

I’m interviewing Michelle Auerbach - Author of Resilience: The Life-Changing Skill of Story - we talk about how you can use stories to heal trauma, help others, become more resilient and change our culture.  Show notes: summerinnanen.com/171 We discuss: - What inspired Michelle to write Resilience: The Life-Changing Skill of Story, - What a story is and why it doesn’t need to be profound to heal or make an impact, - The 3 ingredients of a story that we can use to heal and help connect with others, - How stories can be used to heal trauma and how they have a physiological impact on our body, - How both listening to stories and telling our story are powerful ways to heal trauma, - Practical ways we can use storytelling to help us in moments of emotional distress, - How we can use stories to be better allies to marginalized individuals, 
- Why stories can be a powerful way to reject diet culture and help with body acceptance, - Why journalling can be an incredible tool for sharing our stories and healing, - How we can use stories to bridge the divide and help others to see different perspectives, Plus, so much more!  Get the shownotes: summerinnanen.com/171

I’m interviewing Christy Harrison - anti-diet registered dietitian and author of Anti-Diet - about the history of diet culture and beauty standards, the truth about long-term weight loss, how to get started with Intuitive Eating and more.  Show notes: summerinnanen.com/170 We discuss: - The history of diet culture and how fat phobia preceded the health arguments that fuel diet culture today, - The evolution of beauty standards and how they were correlated to political shifts happening in women’s liberation, - Why conversations on diet culture must be political and why divorcing diet culture is a political act, - Why Christy refers to diet culture as The Life Thief, - The “Obesity” epidemic - how to came into existence, whether there is truth to it and the real impact on the health system, - What the research really says about long-term weight loss, - How to define health, 
- The impact of weight stigma on health, - The impact of weight cycling on health, - The first steps you need to take to become a more intuitive eater, - Why self-trust and focusing on enoughness must come before evaluating fullness, Plus, so much more!  Get the shownotes at summerinnanen.com/170

I’m interviewing Chrissy King - writer, speaker, strength coach - about the intersection of racism and fitness culture, the importance of anti-racism work, how to heal your relationship with your fitness and more.  Show notes: summerinnanen.com/169 We discuss: - How Chrissy got into powerlifting and the impact this had on her relationship with her body, - How Chrissy took dieting and fitness to the extreme and later recovered to come to a place of acceptance and peace with her body, - The influence of racism on body image, - The intersection of fitness culture and racism and how so much of fitness culture is still so white-washed, - How white coaches, trainers and everyday people can do better to dismantle white supremacy and invest in anti-racism work, - Chrissy’s #thebodyliberation project and why she believes liberation is the ultimate destination beyond self-acceptance, - Specific practices to take to cultivate self-acceptance, 
- Why self-love is not all rainbows and the important steps needed to cultivate self-acceptance, - How to change your relationship with fitness if you’ve had a disordered or damaged relationship with it, Plus, so much more!  Get the shownotes at summerinnanen.com/169

I’m interviewing Lindley Ashline, Photographer and creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Box about how images and photos can be a powerful tool for healing body image. We also discuss thin privilege and more.  Show notes: summerinnanen.com/168 We discuss: - How Lindley got into photography and came up with the ideal to create Body Liberation Stock, - Why there is a need for fat photographers and people who understand how to work with fat bodies, - Why growing up without television and pop culture made it easier for Lindley to accept her body, - How fatphobia is the background noise in our culture, - How photos can be a helpful tool in the healing process, - How to use photos to heal body image, - Why the media controls and influences the power dynamics as it relates to fat bodies, - What you can do if you are afraid of being visible in photos, - Lindley’s series on thin privilege - why she started it and the impact it’s had, Plus, so much more!  Get the shownotes at summerinnanen.com/168

I’m interviewing Jennifer Hollinshead, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Founder of Peak Resilience. We talk about how to navigate feelings of uncertainty, how you can learn to surrender control and how to take care of your mental health via self-care, especially during these unprecedented times.  Show notes: summerinnanen.com/167 We discuss:  - What inspired Jennifer to become a Registered Clinical Counsellor and open Peak Resilience,
 - Why it is imperative to take a social-justice informed stance in counselling/therapy, - The challenges she faced starting her own business and the adversity she overcame as a female entrepreneur,
 - How our patriarchal, capitalist and colonialist society influences mental health,
 - How our current times of COVID-19 are influencing people's feelings of anxiety or depression,
 - Ways to take care of your mental health when consuming negative news, - What to do if you really struggle with uncertainty and letting go of control and how to learn to surrender, - How to navigate and take care of your mental health via self-care while in quarantine, - The best ways to manage the increased expectations that we're putting on ourselves right now (i.e. homeschool, take up a new hobby, etc), - How to find time for self-care when your responsibilities have increased considerably, - Ways to overcome guilt over making time for yourself and specifically “mom guilt,” Plus, so much more!  Get the shownotes at summerinnanen.com/167

I’m interviewing Elizabeth Hall, Certified Life Coach and Intuitive Eating Counsellor about what it means to have a spiritual practice (even if you don’t identify as spiritual) and how we can use spirituality to heal our relationship with food and our bodies. Show notes: summerinnanen.com/166 We discuss: - How she discovered Intuitive Eating after 30 years as a chronic dieter and the fears that held her back from truly embracing it, - What she wishes she had known and worked on while she was healing her relationship with food, - Why in hindsight she was doing Intuitive Eating wrong, - What it means to be spiritual and why it’s not about being religious, - How spirituality can help you heal your relationship with food and your body, - How it can help you to tune into your intuitive, change negative thoughts and learn to trust your body, - The components of a spiritual practice, specifically for people who haven’t ventured into this space, - Daily spiritual practices that can help you feel more grounded and content, Plus, so much more!  Get the shownotes at summerinnanen.com/166

I’m interviewing Virginia Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct about how food should be safe and comforting first and foremost, plus we chat about how to feed kids intuitively. We chat about: - How Virginia’s first daughter suffered from a heart defect, which resulted in her not being able to eat “normally” for the first two years of her life, - What this taught Virginia about eating and our relationships with food, - What inspired her to write The Eating Instinct and what she learned from it, - How so many of us don’t feel safe or trust ourselves around food or get pleasure from it, - How feeding kids has become so complicated and how diet culture influences the way we feed our kids, - The Division of Responsibility approach from Ellen Sattyr for teaching kids to be intuitive eaters and separating diet culture from nutrition, - How the pressure on moms intersects with diet culture, - What to do if you’re confused on how to feed your child, - What to do if you’ve been influenced by dieting and are unsure of how to introduce more “forbidden” foods to your kids, Plus, so much more! Find the shownotes at: summerinnanen.com/165

It's a special episode because I’m speaking to 4 incredible women, whom I’m willing to bet will have pieces of their story resonate with you. These are 4 of my clients who worked with me during the You, On Fire program and they are here to show you that it is possible to go from obsessing over food and hating your body, to no longer fretting about your reflection and having so much more confidence in who you are outside of how you look. These women go on to be role models to their kids, they have more time so they volunteer or become advocates for social justice, they ask for a raise and a promotion at work, they speak up to their medical professional about HAES or they pursue a new calling. And in all of these little ways, they start to leave a different kind of mark on this world and change the culture. To enroll in You, On Fire go to summerinnanen.com/youonfire Show notes: summerinnanen.com/164

It's a special episode because I’m speaking to 4 incredible women, whom I’m willing to bet will have pieces of their story resonate with you. These are 4 of my clients who worked with me during the You, On Fire program and they are here to show you that it is possible to go from obsessing over food and hating your body, to no longer fretting about your reflection and having so much more confidence in who you are outside of how you look. These women go on to be role models to their kids, they have more time so they volunteer or become advocates for social justice, they ask for a raise and a promotion at work, they speak up to their medical professional about HAES or they pursue a new calling. And in all of these little ways, they start to leave a different kind of mark on this world and change the culture. To enroll in You, On Fire go to summerinnanen.com/youonfire Show notes: summerinnanen.com/164