A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Oppression Go Down with Lindo Bacon, PhD

ABOUT LINDO BACON:
Dr. Lindo Bacon is fostering a global transformation – away from our obsession with body weight and to body respect. Their mission is to provide the critical thought, inspiring vision, and practical strategies needed to empower individuals, organizations, and institutions to respect all bodies and support compassionate self-care.

Bacon holds graduate degrees in physiology, psychology, and exercise metabolism with a specialty in nutrition. A professor and researcher, for almost two decades Bacon has taught courses in social justice, health, weight and nutrition; they have also conducted federally funded studies on health and weight and published in top scientific journals.

Bacon is co-author of the paradigm-shifting Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Fail to Understand about Weight. They also wrote the iconic and bestselling Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight. In their forthcoming book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better), Bacon takes their inspiring message beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity and true belonging.

Bacon’s advocacy for body respect has generated a large following on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, health and nutrition listservs and specialty blogs, and the international lecture circuit. Bacon is committed to centralizing the ways in which power, privilege and disadvantage complicate our experience of our bodies. Health professionals – as well as people on their own personal journeys to body appreciation – call Lindo’s work “life-changing” and “transformative,” providing the tools and confidence for personal change and inspiring others. A compelling speaker, writer and storyteller, Bacon delivers a unique blend of academic expertise, clinical experience, and social justice advocacy, all couched in a raw honesty and compassion that touch and inspire.

CONNECT WITH LINDO BACON:
• Visit LindoBacon.com to learn more, view testimonials, contact Lindo, and more
• Stay informed of Lindo’s workshops, speaking engagements, writings, and more by subscribing here
• Read Lindo’s mission statement and book them for your next speaking engagement
• Follow Lindo on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
• Watch Lindo in Inspiring Appreciation for All Bodies
• Read Lindo and Sabrina String’s article The Racist Roots of Fighting Obesity written for The Scientific American
• Purchase Lindo’s books below:
￮ Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight
(Bookshop) (Amazon)
￮ Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Fail to Understand about Weight
(Bookshop) (Amazon)
￮ Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better)
(Bookshop) (Amazon)

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ABOUT KARIN LEWIS:
Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS has been recovered from Anorexia Nervosa for over 20 years and has been specializing in the prevention and treatment of eating disorders since 2005. To learn more about Karin and her center’s services, please visit Karin Lewis Eating Disorder Center. You can connect with Karin on social media by following her on Facebook and Instagram.

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