Last week I was on a coaching call with the badass babes in You, On Fire and one of the participants asked, “Do we have to be intentional with challenging our old thoughts?” My answer was, “yes… we do need … Read More
Diet Culture is The Soul Sucker™ That Feeds on Women
OK, bear with me… Lately, I’ve been thinking about diet culture as a soul sucker and a mansplaining monster. When I had that vision in my head, I immediately thought of Ghostbusters (“I’m the gatekeeper, are you the keymaster?” Classic). It … Read More
Diet Culture Tames Us
Last week I was bullied – I’ll spare you the details. I signed up for this kind of thing when I decided to do this work in an online setting – pushing back against the status quo and speaking up … Read More
FRR 77: Body Positivity as a Social Justice Issue – With Virgie Tovar
In this episode of Fearless Rebelle Radio, I chat with Virgie Tovar – Author, Speaker and Activist – on the roots of diet culture, the relationship between weight-loss culture and social oppressions, the role of internalized sexism as it relates … Read More
FRR 73 – Discovery Not Recovery – With Kaila Prins
In this episode of Fearless Rebelle Radio, I chat with Kaila Prins – motivational speaker, coach, dance teacher and drag queen trapped in a cis-woman’s body – on what it means to be “recovered enough,” the damaging messages of health … Read More