#57: Overcoming Weight Stigma and Rejecting Diet Culture with Writers Ama Scriver & Kirthan Aujlay

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How to Heal Your Body Image and Feed Kids Without Fear

Body-image therapist Zoe Bisbing joins us to discuss why body image is such a challenging part of disordered-eating recovery, how to deal with our body-focused inner critics, and why many people have such visceral reactions to public figures losing weight. In a deeper dive for pa ...  Show more

The Huberman Husbands Are Not OK: How Bro Wellness Fuels Disordered Eating and Body Shame

Registered dietitian Aaron Flores joins us to discuss why Andrew Huberman and other biohacking wellness bros have such massive appeal, and how their rhetoric can lead to disordered eating and body-image distress. In a deeper dive for paid subscribers, we get into how to talk to p ...  Show more

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