EP 98 - How Questioning Authority + Pushing Back Can Help You Make Peace With Your Body w/ Sofie Hagen
Don't Salt My Game | With Laura Thomas, PhD
Laura Thomas
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
The pod is back with a special Just Eat It takeover series! And to kick things off, Laura speaks to Sofie Hagen, comedian, author, podcast host + body liberation activist.
In this episode they cover:
✨ Sofie's relationship with food growing up + her ED history
✨ Her inability to respect authority + how that was key to learning to love her body
✨ Acknowledging the privilege of being able to question authority + rules
✨ How emotional + physical deprivation + food insecurity can still influence our relationship/behaviour to food
✨ Sofie's new book + mega stand-up show
✨ The need for self care measures to be in place whilst doing work on your relationship with food + body image
Show Notes
{SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE}
{Sofie on Twitter | Instagram | Website}
{Sofie's book - Happy Fat}
{Danish Chocolate Slices - ScandiKitchen}
{Plus Equals website}
{Shooglet on Instagram}
{Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating}
{BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I’ll share international links when they become available!}
{Follow us on Insta!}
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | She's got the expert guests to help you feel your best. |
| 0:06.3 | Shets down what diet shed. |
| 0:08.5 | You shouldn't bother wet. |
| 0:10.5 | Get all the real talk from the blank based talk. |
| 0:14.5 | Feeling good's in the frame. |
| 0:16.4 | Now on don't solve my game. |
| 0:20.2 | No, don't solve my game. No, don't salt my game. |
| 0:23.5 | Hey guys, welcome to the Just Eat It takeover of Don't Salt My Game. I'm Laura Thomas, a registered |
| 0:30.3 | nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor and author of Just Eat It, a book about how |
| 0:36.9 | intuitive eating can help you get your shit together around food. |
| 0:41.1 | To celebrate the launch of the book, I'm talking to cool people about their relationship to food, their bodies, and ultimately themselves. |
| 0:48.8 | Oh my God, you guys. Today I am talking to Sophie, Mother fucking Hagen. I have been trying to get Sophie on the podcast |
| 0:56.7 | for like two and a half years. It hasn't worked out for a variety of different reasons, but we |
| 1:03.5 | finally made it happen. She is kind of a big deal, so you're probably already familiar with her |
| 1:09.8 | work. But just in case, Sophie is a very funny comedian, podcast host, |
| 1:15.4 | Fat Liberation activist, and author of the forthcoming book Happy Fat, |
| 1:19.8 | which is available for pre-order now. |
| 1:22.5 | This episode is seriously incredible. |
| 1:25.4 | Sophie is so fucking cool. |
| 1:29.8 | We talk about her relationship to food, |
| 1:37.8 | her eating disorder and her inability to respect authority and how ultimately that was key to her learning how to love her body and begin to unpack all the shit she'd been taught |
| 1:43.1 | about hating herself from a fatphobic, patriarchal, consumerist, capitalist, etc. society. |
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