The Body Grievers® Club

In this episode of the Body Grievers Club - Bri sits down with Body Griever Grad Andi Heggem to discuss the harm & difficulty of working in fatphobic world. Check out Andi on insta: https://www.instagram.com/essentiallyandi/

In this episode, Bri hot seat coaches herself through her fear of REST.  When we dig into our body image narrative - we often find places where narratives like to hold on to.  Check out this episode to explore where even Bri feels like she gets stuck in productivity narrative. 

Recently I went to the doctor for a checkup. I had been seeing this doctor for 4 years and I had just seen her 6 months ago, and my blood work looked great. This time, I felt off, my blood work was off, and I hadn’t been taking my thyroid medication regularly.For the first time ever, my doctor brought up intentional weight loss as a solution to my current issues. She even suggested surgery, which I have already had and had a horrible experience with. To say I was shocked is an understatement.I could have walked out of that appointment and not gone back. I could have let her blame my autoimmune diagnoses on my body size. Instead, I asked myself how I would advocate for one of my Body Grievers, and instead explained how intentional weight loss was never going to be an option for me because of my disordered past. Luckily, she listened.Check out my resources at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production

Welcome back to another hot seat coaching session. As the holidays approach, do you find yourself dreading the conversations at dinner because your body has changed? Today’s guest is feeling that apprehension.I’ll coach her through her trauma responses, talking to herself the way she would talk to her niece or a student, and building some planned coping mechanisms.Are you interested in being hot seat coached on the podcast?  We are looking for hot seat guests for 2023 - check it out here. A Podcast Launch Bestie production

Burnout is highly celebrated in our culture, in America especially. Are you familiar with the phrase, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead?” We’re expected to hustle and grind. When I was very young, I connected my worth to my doing. The attention and compliments I got when I did something that made someone else happy felt really good. Particularly living in a fat body, if I was productive, I was worthy.How can we go about healing from burnout that keeps our cup empty? Realign with your values. Prioritize what’s important and what’s urgent. Delegate what you can, which may mean humbling yourself to be able to accept help. Detach yourself from the outcome. Find new hobbies. What is play for you?Can you pair a task you don’t like doing with a task you do like doing? What can you do to delegate and conserve your energy? Burnout is perpetual, but it can be healed.Check out my resources, course, and membership community “The Body Grievers Club” at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production

Today’s guest is Sarah Cottrell, host of The Former Lawyer Podcast. She is a former lawyer herself, former client of mine, and happily a current friend and colleague. Today we’ll talk about how she helps people get out of their soul-sucking lawyer gig, what happens afterward, and how that relates to the Body Grievers journey. There are more similarities than you might think.Sarah’s experience in Body Grievers Club was life changing. She had been in therapy for 6 years attempting to recover from her eating disorder, but learning how to really process grief has helped her in every other aspect of life. Developing the self-compassion required to try new things and fail has been a game changer.Connect with Sarah at https://formerlawyer.com/Check out my resources, course, and membership community “The Body Grievers Club” at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production

Join me for hotseat coaching with my guest Meghan. Meghan had gotten a Peloton bike in order to be part of the culture and get back into joyful movement. She has run into problems with the way she fits on the bike and the way it functions, plus the guilt of having bought this expensive bike that’s been gathering dust.Listen in as we unpack internalized fatphobia, societal pressures, guilt, and boundaries.Check out my resources, course, and membership community “The Body Grievers Club” at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production

CONTENT NOTE: In this episode we will discuss emotional abuse from an older partner.Welcome Vinny Welsby to the Body Grievers Club podcast. Vinny is a fatphobia activist, educator, and diversity trainer. They dealt with many body image issues growing up, such as poverty and not having enough food, having a fat body and not feeling like they should eat because of it, living in a homeless shelter, and abuse from a much older boyfriend. Finny saw a message online that it was okay to be fat, and there was no turning back.We’ll have a good discussion about body grief, hope, Santa, pronouns, and multiple marginalizations.Vinny Welsby (they/them) is a world-leading expert on dismantling fatphobia and diet-culture, TEDx speaker, and best-selling author. They went from being homeless, abused with self-esteem that was achingly low into the courageous fat activist and change maker they are today. Victoria helps people fall in love with themselves and is dedicated to shifting the way society views fat bodies.You can connect with Vinny and find their book, TEDx talk, podcast, and social links on https://fiercefatty.com/Check out my resources, course, and membership community “The Body Grievers Club” at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production

I’m ECSTATIC to welcome Tiff Roe to the podcast today. Tiff found me on IG back when I was brand new and shared my series on eating disorders versus disordered eating, and my audience exploded.Today we’re going to talk about the clinical definition of grief. Whereas bereavement is the experience of losing a loved one to death and mourning is the cultural expression of what’s going on, grief itself is the intense physical and psychological distress we experience in response to loss.Collectively, we are all experiencing pandemic grief and the effects of life as we knew it being ripped away.Listen in as we talk about all things body image, inner child wounds, unconditional love, and diet culture.Connect with Tiffany @heytiffanyroe and online at https://tiffanyroe.com/Check out my resources, course, and membership community “The Body Grievers Club” at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production

CONTENT NOTE: In this episode I will speak about medical abuse.In this episode, we’re going to challenge that inner critic narrative. After I shared on IG about a doctor’s appointment in which we saw a significant increase in my health values after making only 2 changes: reducing the stress in my life, and knowing that at my appointment we wouldn’t talk about my weight. Even though this was a huge win for me, I found myself in a panic attack. My body had been ready for a fight that didn’t happen because of the years of medical trauma that I’ve experienced.When we experience trauma, we essentially experience it twice: in the body, then in the brain. Our logical mind can convince us that we’re not in that same danger anymore, but the body still remembers.In this episode, I’ll walk you through some of the process that I went through with my EDMR therapist to heal some of the wounds I’ve held for so long.If you listened to the episode you know that this code is very important: BODYGRIEVERSCLUBCheck out the link in my bio for my current offeringsCheck out my resources, course, and membership community “The Body Grievers Club” at https://bodyimagewithbri.com/A Podcast Launch Bestie production