Stay ConnectedWelcome to Love Your Bod Pod, a podcast all about intuitive eating, female empowerment, body acceptance, and saying goodbye to diet culture. Cara Carin Cifelli is your host, she is a certified holistic health coach, breathwork facilitator, author, speaker, and food lover! Find her @caraskitchen on Instagram or www.caraskitchen.net
Disclaimer* This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and does not substitute individual medical or mental health advice.
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In this episode, I interview Alissa Young, a women's empowerment coach. She struggled with an eating disorder and found a state of full recovery through spiritual practices, including Intuition, energy healing, reiki, Tarot, astrology, Human Design and more. We also talk about listening to the whispers of our soul, body and intuition before they turn into screams or we hit a rock bottom. If you are curious about how a spiritual practice could support you in recovery, this is for you!
Instagram: @blissbyliss
In this episode, I interview Sabrina Strings, PhD and author of the incredibly important book Fearing The Black Body, The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. Through her research, she seeks to answer the question of " Why do we all, but especially white women, so badly want to be thin?" If you have ever wondered why, this episode is for you. What she discovered and shares about in this episode will blow your mind. The pressure we put on women to look a certain way is centuries old with roots in racism and religion and has always been a form of social control and oppression.
Sabrina Strings is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and a recipient of the Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship, where she held appointments in the Department of Sociology and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
In this solocast, I share some loving inspiration for these times, I quote Brene Brown several times as well, because she is the QUEEN of powerful one-liners. If you are struggling with perfectionism, food, body image, shame, judgment, and your "inner mean girl" right now, this episode is for you! I share tips, strategies & loving advice.
In today's episode, I interview author and professor, Dr. Renee Engeln. She wrote one of my favorite books for healing body image called Beauty Sick. Topic's we cover: What is Beauty Sickness, how shame is not motivating, the problems with girls and women's fashion, how our obsession with appearance hurts us and what we can do about, aging and so much more.
Dr. Renee Engeln is a psychology professor and director of the Body and Media Lab at Northwestern University. She is the author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is regularly interviewed by media outlets, including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, and the Huffington Post. Her TedX talk at the University of Connecticut has garnered over half a million views. An award-winning professor, Dr. Engeln has been voted to the “faculty honor roll” for eight consecutive years at Northwestern University.
Instagram: beauty_sick
beautysick.com
bodyandmedia.com
In this episode, I interview Catherine Bailey, a lawyer, women’s policy expert, and founder of Think or Blue, a community of parents, teachers, and family who believe that children thrive best in a world free from gender stereotypes. We talk about the impact gender norms and stereotypes have on children's body image and relationship with food. We go into the 5 Pillars of Feminist Parenting and you will walk away with practical, actionable tips and strategies you can use if you are a parent or have a child in your life, like a niece or nephew and you want to raise them to embrace their individuality. It is a fabulous episode that I know you will love!
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Find Catherine:
Website: www.thinkorblue.com
Twitter and Instagram: @thinkorblue
Facebook: Feminist Parents Unite (private group) https://www.facebook.com/groups/490381495075750/
Grab Catherine's Guide: "How to Nurture Healthy Body Image in Kids"
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OK!! Today I am getting woo on you. Although, in the episode, I argue that the process of Manifestation and the Law of Attraction aren't actually all that woo-woo, but rather really practical and make a lot of sense in a variety of contexts.
I share with you how I have been using the process of manifestation in my coaching without realizing it or intentionally going through it while I help people heal their relationship with food and their body. I share some examples of how you can apply it to recovery as well as how it can be used negatively and lead to a disordered relationship with food.
I bust a common myth about these New Age philosophies and show you how you can apply them to your own life to create massive change.
Lastly, I share some examples from my career to inspire those of you that are high-achieving! My goal is for you to leave feeling excited and with practical steps you can take to manifest whatever you want- recovery and a normal relationship with food included!
Find me on IG: @caraskitchen
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Learn about The Embodied Rebel Academy HERE
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In this episode, I interview Dr. Caroline Heldman. She is Executive Director of The Representation Project, a Professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the Senior Research Advisor for the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media. Her research specializes in media, the presidency, and systems of power (race, gender, ability, and sexuality). Dr. Heldman has published five books.
We talk about sexual objectification and how it is not actually powerful to be seen as a sex object highly desired by men AKA the male gaze. We explore why most Body Positive advertisements don't actually work or make a difference, and what do women do about the pressure to be thin and beautiful. Then we cover sexuality, being sexy and how to reclaim our sexuality after trauma, including eating disorders or sexual violence.
Be prepared to have a lot to ponder and digest after this jammed packed episode.
Find Caroline:
Buy her most recent book, Sex, Gender, and the 2016 Presidential Election
Sign up for 6 Steps to Becoming a Powerful & Effective Food & Body Image Coach MASTERCLASS with Brandilyn and Cara
In this solo cast, I talk about how anger is a transformative emotion. Much of the body positive movement would have you believe that self-love, acceptance, and confidence are the emotions you need to heal from food and body shame but I'd argue that you have to get angry first. In this episode, I share the things that made me angry and why that's a good thing for your healing journey. Anger is actionable. Shame is powerless.
I also reference and quote THIS article from Brandilyn Tebo
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In this episode, I share the 6 main differences in mindset between normal, intuitive eaters and dieters/disordered eaters. I've talked a lot about the Diet Mentality and how it is truly where the transformation lies when it comes to healing our relationship with food. By distinguishing the differences in how you think, you will know the areas where you need the practice to find food freedom.
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Buy my cookbook: Vegan Buddha Bowls
Get ready to have your mind blown with this episode!
I interview renowned author and sociologist, Abigal Saguy, PhD. and professor at UCLA. She wrote the book "What's Wrong with Fat?" a book that explains how we came to view fatness as a public health crisis and explores the implications of this view. Through her research she found that public discussions of the "obesity crisis" do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. In this episode, she explains the cultural, political & capitalistic reasons why fatness is now seen as pathological when it used to be seen as a sign of good health. If you have ever wondered how our society became so obsessed with weight- this episode is for you!
Learn more about Abigail HERE
Find her book What's Wrong With Fat and Come Out, Come Out, Who Ever You Are
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