S4E09 - Demonizing the Body

School of Embodied Arts Podcast with Jenna Ward

I’m yet to meet a woman who doesn’t have some internalized struggle with body image, weight or beauty. The narrative of how we ‘should’ look, what is ‘beautiful’ and how ‘big’ our bodies are allowed to be is impossible to internalize. It’s also just as challenging to deconstruct & redefine on our own terms.

In today’s interview, we’ve invited Licensed Mental Health Therapist & anti-racism eating disorder specialist Alishia McCullough to speak with us about emotional eating, diet and demonizing the black body. In our conversation we’re breaking down emotional eating, looking for clues to illuminate the subtle & sneaky ways we’ve taken in body-image-ideas that are not our own, the relationship between modern ideals & black slavery, plus some practices and reframes Alishia has used in her own practice with clients.

In this interview we explore:

• Emotional eating: what is it, is it really a problem & Jenna’s experience with sugar
• 4 clues to illuminate what you’re body is deeply holding about beauty & body size
• How diets encourage women to take up less space & men to take up more
• A history lesson in understanding where our modern f***ed up beauty standards have
• come from & why they were created

Find Jenna on the following platforms:

Website: http://jennaward.co/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennaward.co/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennawardco/

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