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Women, Ageing and Body Image

20 May 2024 by

Enjoy this fun and insightful conversation between Canadian Psychotherapist Esther Kane and her dear friend Joanne about their relationships to food, bodies and ageing. In it, we explore Joanne’s problematic relationship with food and where it originated, her battle with Orthorexia and how she ultimately healed from it. Finally, we talk about the ageing process and how we can learn to embrace it.

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Episode Contents:

0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 Body Image Series Intro
2:44 Introducing Joanne Leese
3:40 History of our friendship
7:13 Jewish women and ageing
7:40 Joanne’s relationship to food and her body in her teens
12:50 Her 20s — Becomes Orthorexic
15:00 Healing from Orthorexia
16:15 The ageing process and how we navigate ageing in a positive way

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

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