Body Comments, Diet Culture and Critical Thinking with Joy Parrish
Joy Parrish of the popular podcast, This is Joy & Claire, formerly Girls Gone WOD, joined me in a conversation about diet culture, body image, and the work we need to do to rise above it all. Please note, there is no quick fix for any of this. It is a constant practice which we are both fully immersed in.
In true Here's the Deal Fashion, we start the episode discussing the importance of therapy. Joy is a therapist by trade and getting her perspective on therapy is enlightening.
We then move into body image, commenting on people's appearance and ask the question, "what is it we are really afraid of?" I think several people (myself included) will benefit from asking themselves that question. Not only what are we afraid of, but also, where are we getting or ideals from? Why are we so fearful of changing our ways? Key point: You will NOT automatically be happier in a smaller body.
Joy tells us about her recent diagnosis of Graves Disease and how it is affecting her life and how she felt guilty for taking her health for granted. And to be clear a thin body is not a healthy body. Health markers have very little to do with your physical appearance.
Finally, one of the best messages in this episode is the reminder to a critical thinker through all of this. Who are you getting your information from? Who are you following on social media? Are you coming from a place of desperation or contentment?
We all have work to do and I want to do it with you. I don't think we'll ever get totally out of it because we are humans in society today, but we can keep striving.
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