Meet Me in the Middle

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 8, we journey into the 1990s! If you've been waiting for us to get to "heroin chic" as wellness, we've finally hit it this week (content warning: drug use and disordered eati...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 7, we've finally made it to a decade we were alive in - the 1980s! This week we take a deep dive into some of the more famous aspects of wellness culture in the 1980s, and we...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 6, we talk about the 1970s. Not only was this the decade of avocado green refrigerators, it was also the decade that brought us SlimFast and the Scarsdale diet and reinging k...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 5, we talk about the 1960s. From a three martini lunch to the macrobiotic diet, the 60s was chock-full of wellness trends on both ends of the spectrum. Macrobiotic Diet Sego...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 4, we talk about the 1950s - the war might be over but the policing of what bodies should consume and look like continues! We finally get to the ubiquitous cabbage soup diet...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 3, we talk about the 1940s, which not only featured WW2, but also featured amphetamines, instant food, and saunas for weight loss. Don't worry, regardless of the world changi...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 2, we talk about the 1930s, which was not only the great depression but also a fun time to try the bananas and skim milk diet! If you thought a worldwide lack of food and res...

Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 1, we talk about the 1920s, which was not all just flappers and speakeasies, but also brought us the first best-selling weight loss book, and the grapefruit diet. We forgot t...

You have probably heard or read about the wellness benefits of green tea, so join us as we talk about some very specific claims around matcha. You'll meet some familiar faces and it shouldn't be too much of a spoiler to say that we find a middle ground approach by the end. The instagram post that Jenny shares: https://www.instagram.com/p/x4tsp7iPRX/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D The website link we...

If you lived in Vancouver and were in the wellness community (or even the broader community) in the early aughts, you might have heard about the Wild Rose Cleanse. If you're like Annika, you might even have done it - a few times... Join us this week as we talk about this cleanse specifically and the concept of cleansing more generally. Read along with the list of foods here . Also as a follow up n...

Join us as we dig into the mediterranean diet - there's a lot of hype about it being a pretty close to prefect way to eat but is it just hype? Discussions include the health impacts of an afternoon siesta and a reminder once again that Annika really hates cooking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you have any wellness content in your social feeds, you might have seen the recommendation to track your glucose levels for your health. This week, we talk specifically about the wellness trend to use continuous glucose monitors to track and hack your health. Is there anything to this? Join us and let's talk. Big thanks to listener Lori H for the lead to check out Jessie Inchauspé! Read the ful...

You've probably read or seen *someone* you know or follow online suggesting a collagen supplement for your health, but is it just another wellness fad or is there some truth behind it? Is there a consensus on what kind of difference it makes for your *wellness* and if so, what is it? We dive in to seek out the middle ground. Check out the link Jenny shares here: https://www.vitalproteins.com/blogs...

We won't say that we're sad to see the doors of a diet culture OG close it's doors forever, but when we heard Jenny Craig was closing it's door permanently we wanted to dig a little deeper. Join us for a history lesson and some deconstruction of diet culture messaging. TW/CW: dieting, calories, restricted eating. Check out the ad we play here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7O8yUw5oL0 Hosted on...

If you have ever had the sense that you "know" a celebrity or online personality, then you'll feel us on this episode. From boy bands to Princess Diana, we discuss parasocial interactions and relationships - and of course, it all comes back to money (say it with us - it was capitalism all along!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk in detail about "clean beauty" - what does it actually mean? Is it more than a marketing technique - and what of it's possibly problematic history? Join us as we dig in to this and more. CW/TW: these links that we discuss within the history are painfully racist, please exercise self-care before clicking on them <3 Covergirl magazine ad: https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?i...

Our very first interview episode! We are so excited this week to bring you a middle ground discussion with Dr Carley Akehurst, Naturopathic Doctor. Regardless if you think Naturopaths are the only way - the be-all and end-all for care - OR if you think they are "fringe", this episode will have all kinds of context for you. We jam on what it looks like to seek out middle ground within wellness, inv...

This week we dissect the new Canadian alcohol guidelines - not only do we dig in to the actual meat of the report, but because we have different alcohol consumption patterns ourselves we really dig in to different sides and perspectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you've been around the wellness world for a hot minute you've probably heard about or seen someone promoting cold therapy of some kind - cold showers, ice baths, etc and wondered - why? Or at least - does this do all the things that I've heard it can (or does it even do any of it)? This week we dig in to what is claimed and what science actually says - spoiler, there's a lot of room here for mi...

This week is a follow up to last week's episode around having hard conversations and not dying. Join us as we talk on a personal level about what it's meant to us to change our minds or deciding to have dialogue around tough or controversial conversations. As always, if you want more or less of topics like this, please don't hesitate to reach out to Annika or Jenny on Instagram! Hosted on Acast. S...

The ethos of this podcast is and has always been to seek out the middle, but what does that *actually* look like in practice? This week we dive in to what it looks like to have tricky (maybe political?) conversations and maintaining relationships, even when we might be on different pages. This is part one of a two week arc, where next week we share in more detail what it looks like for us and how...

In Canada's province of British Columbia recently, it was announced that certain forms of birth control will be included in everyone's basic medical services plan starting April 1. Join us as we talk about the (sometimes dark) history of birth control and our legal historical context in Canada. Government of BC pharmacare coverage Victorian comic Montecristo magazine article Over the Counter Birth...

This week we take a slightly different approach to finding the middle - join us on a journey of looking deeply at "both sides" in the meat vs plant-based meat conversation. As always, we seek out the middle ground and share our own personal opinions, beliefs, and biases - we aren't necessarily seeking out "the right answer" but the nuance in what goes into the choices we might make. As promised fo...

This week we take a slightly different route on our episode - a personal conversation. In some ways this is a part two to last week, but it's also just a conversation. Grab a cup of tea and sit down with us as we share our own personal experiences growing up, and our contexts now with work inside and outside the house. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We branch off this week from strictly "wellness" into middle ground around the experience of women and labour. In the conversation that kicked this off, we were talking about that statistic that "being a mom is the equivalent of 2.5 jobs" and we wanted to look at that a little more. (We'd love to hear your feedback on this, please reach out to either Jenny or Annika on instagram and let us know!)...