Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

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

I’m talking about how to stop caring so much about what others think, what we can learn from fear of judgment and 7 ways to overcome it, as part of the Body Image Series. Grab your free bonus worksheet - "5 Ways to Navigate Social Situations When Feeling Self-Conscious" in the show notes at summerinnanen.com/163 Specifically, we cover: - Why we fear judgment and how this is ingrained in us, - What these fears can teach us about ourselves, - Why understanding the source of our fear of what others are thinking is integral to healing self-worth, - 7 ways to overcome fear of judgment, Plus, so much more!  Get your free worksheet - "5 Ways to Navigate Social Situations When Feeling Self-Conscious" in the show notes at summerinnanen.com/163

I’m talking about why we compare, why comparisons are one of the hardest things to overcome and 8 actions to take to help you stop comparing, as part of the Body Image Series. Grab your free worksheet - "6 Ways We’ve Been Conditioned to Compare" in the show notes at summerinnanen.com/162 Specifically, we cover: - Why we compare and why it’s not our fault, - The main belief that drives us to compare, - Why comparisons are one of the hardest things to overcome, - 8 actions to take to stop comparisons, Plus, so much more!  Get your free worksheet - "6 Ways We’ve Been Conditioned to Compare" in the show notes at summerinnanen.com/162

I’m talking about breaking the attachment to the thin ideal. Specifically, why it’s so hard to break the attachment to the thin ideal and how to identify and work through the fears that keep us hooked on the pursuit of thinness, as part of the Body Image Series. Grab your free worksheet - "Goodbye Diet Culture - 5 prompts to help you break up with diet culture for good" in the show notes at summerinnanen.com/161 Specifically, we cover: - Why it’s so hard to break the attachment to the thin ideal,
 - Why no one should feel ashamed for wanting to lose weight,
 - Why breaking the attachment to the thin ideal is a crucial part of body acceptance work,
 - How to identify and work through the fears that keep us hooked on the thin ideal,
 - The 5 main fears that keep us hooked on the thin ideal and diet mentality, Get your free worksheet - "Goodbye Diet Culture - 5 prompts to help you break up with diet culture for good" in the show notes at summerinnanen.com/161