100% Healthy-ish

Holiday pictures, sweat stains, BO, frizzy hair, and never-not-hairy legs: the reminders that we're real human women and how to get cool with it. In this episode, Jill talks about her own laundry list of flaws, how she's learned to see the beauty in some flaws and accept the ugliness of others - and the possibility that you can have "ugly" features AND maintain a strong sense of beauty and self.

Owning our Own Brand of Beauty is the topic of the week - but what does that even mean? Shouldn't we be shunning all conventional beauty ideals? In this episode, Jill talks about how beauty fits into the body respect/body love journey we are on, why and how beauty is important (and how it's not!) and the first steps to figuring out what our own brand of beauty is in the world.

In the second installment of The Summer Body Series, Jillian discusses the relentless bad body thoughts that persist in our minds - often for decades - killing our sense of self and wasting so much of our precious time. Why do these bad body thoughts show up? How do we deal with them? Tune in!!

What is the summer body series? What are we going to be talking about? Why? In this episode Jill lays out the plan for the next eight weeks, as we sink into our bodies, release resistance to enjoying the beautiful months of summer, and find a way to get excited - just like we did when we were kids - about the hot, humid, lazy days ahead.

When it comes to food the experts are all over the place - one day fat is bad, the next it's the bomb. Same goes for carbs. And antioxidants. And....In this episode, Jill talks about the 3 major belief systems she believes feeds our confusion and frustration around food and what the ULTIMATE answer might be.....

What's a minisode you ask?? It's what happens when you plan to turn a totally incredible Facebook Live conversation on "mom bods" into a podcast but technology hates you and you waste an entire day with nothing to show for it! Silver lining - in order to get a podcast out to you this week I created a short and sweet minisode - a Q&A with woman who is working to love and accept her body - and succe...

In this episode, Jill discusses a recent Instagram post by a fitness expert and influencer describing her feeling that "the body positive movement is problematic". The post mixed some interesting points of conversation with misunderstanding and a hefty dose of assumption. Jill explains why this (fairly common) type of confusing discourse - filled with inaccuracy and stigmatizing rhetoric - misrepr...

Why do we compare ourselves to other women? Why do we compete? Don't "real women" raise other women up? In this episode Jill discusses the reason women feel challenged by other women (especially around beauty and weight) and how to get out of The Compare & Despair game.

In this episode Jill discusses the movie I Feel Pretty, starring Amy Schumer - specifically, 3 important lessons for anyone interested in better understanding the cultural story line they are buying into around weight and beauty and why this movie has so many people talking (and criticizing!).

In this episode, Jill discusses Outrageousness as an antidote to diet culture and a method for stepping into our own "brand of beauty". She defines Outrageous, discusses why have resistance to it, reads from women who own it, and suggests how we can support other women in their outrageousness. You'll hear readings from Naomi Wolf, Ashley Ford, Michelle Mary Lelwica, and Elizabeth Gilbert.

In this episode Jillian explores The concept of food addiction. Are we actually physically addicted to food or are we addicted to something else? Tune in to find out! Stories from Kelsey miller, Isabel Foxen Duke, Geneen Roth, and Carolyn Myss. **Just to be super clear here, Jill is only talking about the relationship with food when she talks about the addiction archetype. Alcohol and drugs (and o...

In this episode Jill discusses three of the over-arching issues she does have when it comes to weight, fat, food, and health. You’ll hear stories from Lena Dunham, Karen Maezen Miller and academic reading from Sondra Solovay & Esther Rothblum.

In this final bonus episode Jill read the stories of other women – the struggles, the realizations, the transformations, and the acceptance.

You’ve gathered new information, challenged old beliefs, stripped away old stories, been rebirthed as a new, body-accepting woman, and now it’s time to return to the ordinary world. It feels like it should be easy, but the road back is often filled with final bumps and hurdles. Here’s how to deal with the challenges that arrive after transformation.....

What makes us worthy? Beautiful? Today we hear stories on reclaiming both virtues on our own terms.....and what happens when we just can't stop desiring the privilege associated with the beauty ideal?

We haven't just absorbed stories about how much we should weigh, we also absorb stories about the type of beautiful we should be. What's the story? Where does it come from? How does it control us as women?

Today we’re are turning the tides - exploring two MAJOR things that need to happen if we are to shed our old stories about weight, body, beauty and health and write a new, incredible, story!!!

In this episode jill discusses the moment we realize our bodies don't fit the current standard. She explores what happens when we begin, as young girls or young women, to internalize cultural messaging around weight, bodies, and beauty - how the collateral damage goes way beyong food and body image issues.

In today's episode Jill will discuss how weight and health have been inappropriately linked, why linking the two together is so detrimental, and why it's triggering when women step out into the world in non-conforming bodies and claim to be healthy.

What is the story we've been fed about beauty and weight and where did it come from? In this episode Jill explores the stories we absorb as we grow up that form our views about weight and beauty, she dives in the academic work on diet culture, and summarizes the takeaways that we've absorbed over the years.