Latest Bodydysmorphia Podcast Episodes
145. But Is Body Neutrality Really Possible?
Life After Diets - April 24, 2024 04:37 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThis body image centered episode delves into the distinctions between body positivity and body neutrality, offering a nuanced exploration of how individuals can relate to their bodies beyond conventional narratives of self-love. The conversation begins by distinguishing body positivity from b...
144. But What Is Gentle Nutrition?
Life After Diets - April 17, 2024 04:06 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsIn this podcast episode, we explore the concept of Gentle Nutrition, explained as combining basic nutritional knowledge with body attunement. This 10th principle of Intuitive Eating is about recognizing how different foods affect one’s body while maintaining a non-restrictive approach to eating....
143. But My Body is Aging
Life After Diets - April 10, 2024 04:42 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThis conversation discusses the challenges of confronting the aging process, with Sarah sharing a recent moment of seeing photographs of herself and thinking she looked...well, older. This introspection is mirrored by a conversation about Stef's Wednesday Weekly email, which talked about the "em...
142. But What If Food Gets Me Through the Day?
Life After Diets - April 03, 2024 05:50 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsIn this podcast episode, the hosts explore the complex relationship between food and emotional needs. The conversation begins with a reflection on Stef's Instagram post suggesting that food serves as a portal to solitude, comfort, pleasure, and escape, making the idea of changing one’s relations...
141. "But I Did Feel More Confident in a Smaller Body" with guest Stephanie Dodier
Life After Diets - March 27, 2024 05:54 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsIn this episode, we have a pretty cool chat with Stephanie Dodier, reformed dieter and coach for women post diet-culture. We dive deep into how society kinda messes with our heads, telling us we need to look a certain way to feel good about ourselves. Dodier brings up something called "the saf...
140. But I love those "What I Eat in a Day" Videos
Life After Diets - March 20, 2024 05:46 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsIn this playful and insightful episode, our hosts dive into the intriguing world of "What I Eat in a Day" videos and the complex feelings they evoke. They kick things off with a light-hearted banter about the unexpected topics that might arise in a conversation about daily diets, quickly steerin...
139. Review of "Overcoming Binge Eating" by Christopher Fairburn
Life After Diets - March 13, 2024 05:13 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsOvercoming Binge Eating by Christopher G Fairburn has been adopted by the NHS as the gold standard approach for binge eating recovery. This episode offers our personal and professional opinions on the OBE approach and is not meant as a substitute for, or a deterrent against, using this book as p...
138. But Has My Healthy Eating Gone Too Far?
Life After Diets - March 06, 2024 06:23 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsAn obsession with healthy eating has become part of the Eating Disorder and disordered eating spectrum. But how do we differentiate between taking responsibility for our health and disorder? Where's the line? This episode looks at: What's wrong with valuing health and nutrition? What is ortho...
137. But Why Can't I Stop Eating in the Evenings?
Life After Diets - February 28, 2024 06:30 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThe most common time of day for people to overeat and/or binge is in the evening. After work, after dinner, after the kids are in bed, after the quiet sets in. Those hours between dinner and bedtime can be the hardest to navigate and there are many reasons why this happens so much -- we're here ...
136. How to Support a Loved One With Disordered Eating
Life After Diets - February 21, 2024 05:51 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThis episode is different from our usual ones in that it was created not just for you, dear listener, but for your loved ones. If you've ever felt like you want your friend or family member to understand eating disorders better, but just don't know how to describe it or feel like it's hard for t...
135. But I Have Low Self-Esteem
Life After Diets - February 14, 2024 05:21 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsSelf-esteem has implications in eating disorder recovery, and this episode explores some of those -- including self-compassion, connection, competence, comparison, social expectations, shame, and even anger! Tune in for this nuanced conversation about self-esteem (and self-worth, by extension) w...
130. But What If Recovery Isn't Worth It?
Life After Diets - February 07, 2024 06:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsWhat if you're recovering from an eating disorder and it's not all it's cracked up to be? What if the "better life" everyone talks about doesn't feel true for you, and you wonder if it was actually better before? In this episode, we look at this very nuanced, delicate, and lesser-talked-about as...
129. But How Do I Know If I'm Making Progress?
Life After Diets - January 31, 2024 06:08 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThis episode, livestreamed to our Facebook community, is a response to a listener question that asks: How do we know when we're making progress in recovery? If we aren't celebrating pounds or dress sizes lost, how do we mark the "successes" of recovery? And how do we deal with the fact that no o...
Back to Basics (4/4): The Process of Recovery
Life After Diets - January 24, 2024 07:08 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThe fourth and final in our Back to Basics Series (following a set list of: (1)Do I Have a Problem? (2)How Did I Get Here? and (3)A Recovery Toolbox). This episode looks at what recovery looks like from a process perspective. How does it actually look as you go along? How long does it take to r...
Back To Basics 3/4 : Tools For Recovery
Life After Diets - January 17, 2024 06:32 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThe third in a four-part series of Back to Basics; this episode reviews helpful tools for recovery from disordered eating and eating disorders. Tools include cognitive, somatic, emotional, behavioral/practical resources to support your recovery with a list of helpful accounts, books, podcasts, a...
Back to Basics (2/4): But WHY Do I Have a Problem With Food?
Life After Diets - January 10, 2024 06:15 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsSecond in a four-part Back to Basics Series, this episode looks at the question of how we develop disordered eating, eating disorders, and body image issues. What causes it to get so...well, disordered... for some people and not for others? The Minnesota Starvation Experiment Social and Fami...
Back To Basics (1/4): Do I Have a Problem?
Life After Diets - January 03, 2024 07:52 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThe first in a four-part series called: Back to Basics to explore the foundational concepts of disordered eating and eating disorders from the ground floor. We hear from so many people who weren't aware that their experiences had a name, or that other people are dealing with them, too. In this f...
128. Reflections & Projections
Life After Diets - December 27, 2023 06:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsTwo annoucements! Join our mailing list if you want to be in the know about upcoming events in the UK this May 2024; and our next four episodes will be a Back To Basics Series. Now on to this week's episode...we're reflecting on the past year and looking ahead to the new one, but not in the ma...
127. But What About Authenticity?
Life After Diets - December 20, 2023 07:26 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsWe believe that authenticity can have to do with our relationship with food. In this episode, we explore those intersections and tell personal stories abour our own experiences with authenticity and how that has impacted our behaviors with food. The definition of authenticity How it feels to ...
126. But I Keep Catastrophizing!
Life After Diets - December 13, 2023 07:24 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsCatastrophizing things like what we've eaten or how much weight we've gained (for example) can often led to despair or fear-based decision-making. In this conversation, we explore what catastrophization is, why we do it, and strategies to deal with it. We also discuss: Feelings of catastrophiza...
Hope for the Holidays (& Our First Mailbag!)
Picture Blurrfect - December 11, 2023 02:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNaomi closes out Season 3 by reflecting on the interviews and experiences over the last year and for the first time, shares some questions she's gotten from you--the audience! How does one prepare for the holidays when in recovery? How do you approach someone you fear is struggling with an eatin...
125. But Why Aren't I Prioritising My Health?
Life After Diets - December 06, 2023 05:53 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsAside from body image, health seems to be one of the biggest concerns about gaining weight. Because weight gain is common for many people recovering from eating disorders, health is a big sticking point making recovery harder and more complicated. In this episode, we're looking at the relationsh...
124. Permitters and Restrictors
Life After Diets - November 29, 2023 07:03 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsGeneen Roth coined the terms "permitters" and "restrictors" to differentiate between two types of (disordered) eaters -- the latter, who tend to restrict food and adhere to food rules and regulations; and the former, who reject food rules and regulations. The rule-followers vs the rebels, if you...
123. But Should I Keep Fear Foods in My House?
Life After Diets - November 22, 2023 07:59 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsIf we're no longer dieting, should we keep all of our trigger foods and/or "fear foods" in the house? Will we just end up eating them all and feeling MORE out of control? On the other hand, would it be restricting to not have them around? It's complicated! We're here to talk about the nuances of...
122. Body Image and Eating Disorder Recovery with Marcus Kain
Life After Diets - November 13, 2023 00:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsThis week we talk to Marcus Kain, a nutrition coach and trainer specializing in binge eating recovery. Marcus, who also hosts the Strong Not Starving Podcast, shares with us his own journey into and through an eating disorder. Marcus discusses his journey with food and body image issues, trac...
121. But Am I Just Deceiving Myself?
Life After Diets - November 08, 2023 07:35 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsDo you ever feel like you're just kidding yourself about things? About how you're going to just get it together one day, or finally arrive in that smaller body you keep striving for? What is the difference between hope and self-deception? This episode talks about: Stef is just soooo self-aware ...
120. Dopamine and Binge Eating: a Review of Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
Life After Diets - November 01, 2023 07:39 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsSarah and Stef review the book Dopamine Nation by Dr Anna Lembke, professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. Dopamine is a fascinating neurotransmitter when it comes to binge eating for its role in the pai...
Can AI and Chatbots Help Eating Disorder Treatment?: Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD
Picture Blurrfect - October 30, 2023 03:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDr. Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis joins the podcast to share her vision for how technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to improve accessibility of eating disorder treatments. Naomi and Dr. Fitzsimmons-Craft discuss her work with...
119. But What's a "Normal" Portion Size?
Life After Diets - October 25, 2023 06:12 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsAre you a “should”-er or a rebel? Let’s talk about Kettle Chips, for example Milkshakes, beliefs, and ghrelin (the hunger hormone) What if our mind wants more than our body needs? Collecting data & experimenting with portion sizes How Stef worked with portions of peanut butter Sati...
118. But I Don't Like Eating In Front of Other People
Life After Diets - October 18, 2023 06:11 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsHow do you feel eating in front of other pepole? Do you tend to become self-conscious about your food choices, or find yourself overly influenced by what other people are eating? This episode looks at these questions and... Stef & Sarah’s food experiences in Dublin and how self-consciousness pl...
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