012 | Amy Harman | Tips for Healing Negative Body Image and Improving Your Relationships with Food and Fitness

Can you remember a time when you didn’t feel like you needed to lose a few pounds? If you can answer yes to that question, you’re one of the few lucky ones, because most women can’t.

This episode explores several topics that come up regularly in the Runner Moms community: Body image, eating disorders and unhealthy relationships with food and fitness. These issues are, unfortunately, very pervasive in our society thanks to the traps and lies of diet culture.

To explore these issues and provide useful and actionable advice to the Runner Moms community, Amy Harman joins the show as this episode's guest. Amy is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a certified eating disorder specialist. She has addressed body image issues at many professional conferences and community events and recently released a book titled, Perfectly Imperfect. The book explores many of the topics that are discussed in this episode and provides compassionate strategies to cultivate a positive body image.

We as a community of runner moms can empower ourselves to escape the traps of diet culture and lead healthier and happier lives without worrying incessantly about the appearance of our bodies. We can also choose to view fitness as a celebration of what our bodies can achieve rather than as a penance for what we’ve eaten. Even more, we can break the cycle and prevent our kids from dealing with these issues.

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