Do you struggle to feel confident in your body regardless of your size? Watch this enlightening interview where Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane speaks with Summer Innanen-a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She will give you some wonderful tips which will increase your body confidence starting now.
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Episode Contents:
0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Summer Innanen- Body Image Coach
3:30 Summer’s personal story
13:59 Why so many of us dislike how we look
19:20 Concrete steps we can take to feeling more comfortable in our own skin
27:42 Difference is between ‘body positivity’ and ‘body neutrality’
38:09 How body image and patriarchy intersect and how a feminist lens shifts this
45:23 Summer’s journey to love/accept/appreciate about the body she has
51:00 A ‘bigger picture’ vision of what is possible for all of us regarding body image
54:48 Inspirational body image healing stories from Summer’s clients
Show notes:
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Resources mentioned:
- Sonya Renee Taylor: The Body is Not an Apology
- Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
- Jes Baker: Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls
- Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Ph.D.: Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own
FREE resources:
- Read a whole lot of articles I’ve written on women, eating disorders and body image
- Receive my 6-part audio program, Making Peace With Food and Our Bodies