The Air We Breathe: Finding Well-Being That Works for You

In this episode, I am joined by Kristina Bruce, a Body Acceptance Coach, who helps women understand they don’t have to fight with and hate their bodies to feel happy, safe, and worthy. We talk about her understanding of what diet culture is, the body positivity movement, and beauty ideals and standards. She speaks on her shifts away from diet culture by understanding the debunking of topics, knowi...

In this episode, I am joined by Elyse Resch, co-author of Intuitive Eating, now in its 4th edition. She is a nutrition therapist and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. We talk about her book, Intuitive Eating, and how they have updated it over the years to add topics such as eating disorders and stigmatizing language in the 2nd and 3rd editions, and introducing social justice and weight stigma in...

Today’s guest is Chrissy King, a writer, speaker, and educator who focuses on diversity and inclusion within the wellness industry. We talk about how she came to write her book, Body Liberation Project, and how diet culture is rooted in racism and white supremacy. We also chat about thin privilege and recognizing privilege, how people can make small changes to create freedom from diet culture, and...

I am joined by Dacy Gillespie of Mindful Closet, a personal stylist who focuses on anti-diet and weight-inclusive styling. She asks her clients to let go of what they think they should wear and lean into what they feel good wearing. We talk about her journey with diet culture, how she started Mindful Closet to help others isolate aesthetics from the body it's on, understanding that a diversit...

Today, I am joined by Talia Koren, self-taught cook and founder of Workweek Lunch. Workweek Lunch was established in 2016 and is a blog, cookbook, and subscription that helps you meal prep to get more out of life: save time, money, and mental energy. Workweek Lunch aligns with intuitive eating and it is about the system not about the food itself. We talk about separating exercise from diet culture...

Christy talks about how deeply diet culture has affected her all the way down to her career choices. Her new book, The Wellness Trap, takes a deep dive into the connections between wellness culture and diet culture. We chat about how we were both drawn into wellness culture when standard medicine wasn’t listening and didn’t have helpful answers for us. The slippery slope of wellness culture is a f...

Dr. Lisa N. Folden is a North Carolina licensed physical therapist, NASM certified behavior change specialist and Anti-diet Health & Body Image Coach. She also owns Healthy Phit Physical Therapy & Wellness Consultants in Charlotte, NC.  As a body positive women’s health expert and health at every size (HAES®️) ambassador, Dr. Folden assists women seeking healthier lifestyles. Her weight-ne...

Jon Robison holds a Doctorate in health education/exercise physiology and a Master of Science in human nutrition from Michigan State University where he served as Adjunct Assistant Professor for a quarter of a century. His work centered on shifting health promotion away from its traditional, biomedical, control-oriented focus, with a particular interest in why people do what they do and don’t do w...

Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, health, and healthcare. Utilizing her background in research methods and statistics, Ragen has brought her signature mix of humor and hard facts to healthcare, corporate, conference, and college audiences from Kaise...

Hi! Today, I'm talking about my journey to this podcast. Here's a little about me and the resources I talked about in the episode. Heather Sayers Lehman, MS, NBC-HWC, NASM-CPT, CSCS, CIEC, CWP Heather has been supporting health and wellness for over thirty years. She is a TEDx speaker, author, and weight-inclusive wellness strategist. Heather created Overcoming U – Cultivating Employee W...