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May 2024
1h 22m

Body Positivity, Fat Liberation, Health ...

Elena Kunicki
About this episode

💖 “All bodies are beautiful!”

 

🎊 “Let’s celebrate and accept larger bodies!”

 

🙅🏼‍♀️ “Intentional weight loss doesn’t work!”

 

😡 “You’re promoting obesity!”

 

🙄 “Just eat more and exercise less…have more discipline”

 

❌ “Stop pretending…no one wants to be fat”

 

👆The conversation around weight, health and body image today is highly polarized.

 

If this has confused you on your own journey to stopping binge eating, getting your period back and finding balance with food and fitness…I want to help you find the middle ground.

 

In this week’s episode I give my opinions on this debate and specifically address:

  • The Body Positivity movement

  • The difference between body positivity, body acceptance and body neutrality and how you can use these concepts in your own disordered eating recovery

  • The Fat Liberation movement

  • The Health at Every Size framework

 

You will walk away from this episode having more clarity on what it looks like to prioritize health and fitness without obsessing over your weight…

 

…and how to navigate all the conflicting opinions about weight, body image and health.

 

If you want support to stop binge eating, get your period back and find balance with food and fitness - my group program ✨NORMAL EATER✨is open for enrollment at $69 per month.

 

It goes to full price ($99 per month) on June 18th.

 

Click here to learn more about the group program and my other services: bit.ly/elenakwebsite

 

DM me at @elenakunickird on Instagram

Email me at elena@elenakunicki.com

 

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

 

Body Positivity Definition - https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/body-positivity

 

Fat Acceptance Movement - https://centerfordiscovery.com/blog/fat-acceptance-movement/#:~:text=Or%2C%20rather%2C%20a%20%E2%80%9Cfat,loudly%20fat%20without%20being%20apologetic.

 

Health at Every Size Website - https://asdah.org/haes/#:~:text=The%20Health%20at%20Every%20Size%C2%AE%20Principles%20promote%20safe%20and,on%20weight%20or%20weight%20loss.

Resources on radical acceptance: 

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Eckhart Tolle

 

Resources on shame and trauma:

Brene Brown

Tim Fletcher

 

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