Ep 124 - How To Just Eat It: Chapter 4 - Body Compassion

Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD

Laura Thomas

Wellness, Bodypositivity, Plantbased, Nutrition, Medicine, Health, Vegan, Health & Fitness, Wellbeing, Mindfulness, Nutritionist, Dontsaltmygame

4.8 • 807 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this special series of Don’t Salt My Game celebrating the release of my new book How to Just Eat It. For the next several weeks, I’ll be posting two new episodes of the podcast (Tuesdays and Fridays) that correspond with a chapter of the book to help you take your learning further and deepen your intuitive eating practice. How To Just Eat It is out now! Episode 5 of this series will drop on Tuesday 19th Jan!

In today’s episode I’m talking to Nicola Haggett, a Body Trust provider and Intuitive Eating counsellor. In this episode we’re talking all about the concept of embodiment as a tool to help us feel more connected to our bodies.

In this episode we talk about:

How writing our body story can be an act of reclaiming the narrative of our bodies
What exactly embodiment is and how we can find examples of it in our lives (babies, kids, cats!)
The difference between embodiment and more ‘performative’ or ‘hustle’ self-care
How embodiment can help us feel connected to our bodies without necessarily ‘loving’ or feeling ‘positive’ about them.
Reclaiming pleasure, appetite, autonomy and more.
Finding spaces that feel safe to reconnect with your body.

There’s also a brilliant definition of The Social Determinants of Health from Jake Gifford for your glossary on page 35/36 of HTJEI. Watch out for a whole episode of Jake later in the series.

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Edited by Bea Duncan - @beaduncan_

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Work with my team at The London Centre for Intuitive Eating

Guest Information:

Nicola Haggett- Instagram Twitter Website

Jake Gifford - Instagram Twitter Website

Transcript

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0:00.0	Don't Salt My Game.
0:04.2	Hey team, welcome to Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas. I'm a registered nutritionist,
0:09.3	director of London Center for Enchase of Eating, an author of Just Eat It, as well as my new book,
0:14.5	How to Just Eat It. We're here having conversations with game changers in nutrition and health,
0:19.3	food, body liberation, and some other
0:21.5	things thrown in for shits. In this episode, we're talking about chapter four, body compassion.
0:27.7	In this chapter, I'm helping you explore some of the cultural programming we've received about
0:32.1	what constitutes a good or a worthy body. And there are a lot of systems of oppression at play here, ableism and
0:40.2	healthism, racism, white supremacy, ageism, fat phobia, diet culture, patriarchy, and loads more.
0:48.7	I'm not an expert on all of these things. And as a straight-sized white woman with a ton of body privilege,
0:55.8	I really am not an authority on these subjects and I wouldn't want to speak for folks
1:00.4	who have the lived experience of marginalisation because of these systems.
1:05.0	What I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of learning and even more unlearning to do
1:10.1	when exploring the cultural origins
1:12.5	of our collective body shame.
1:15.0	I've linked to a few of those resources in the show notes, but two books I found to be
1:19.7	helpful for me personally are Sonia Rune Taylor's The Body's Not an Apology, and Sabrina
1:23.9	Springs fearing the Black Body.
1:26.2	Also, comedian and podcaster Sophie Hagan has contributed an essay
1:29.6	about fat accessibility for the book, and their book, Happy Fat, is also a great resource for learning more.
1:37.3	So with that caveat that we all have work to do to unlearn and explore our body privilege and how our identities impact
1:46.6	what we've internalized about our bodies and other people's bodies. The chapter on body
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