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Coach, author, and Anti Diet Riot Club co-creator Harri Rose joins us to discuss how to avoid The Wellness Diet and other forms of diet culture in the New Year, how diet culture is trying to infiltrate the anti-diet movement, the harms of social media despite being a tool for connection, life beyond body positivity, and so much more. Plus, in ”Ask Food Psych” guest co-host Ayana Habtemariam answers a listener question about whether limiting foods that trigger digestive symptoms is a form of restriction. Harri Rose is a coach, author and one voice in Anti Diet Riot Club. Harri believes that for too long we have been apologising for our bodies, and that diet culture and beauty standards are holding many of us back from living life. With no memories of liking her body even from a young age, Harri went on her first diet at the age of 13. This began more than a decade of disordered eating and misery at the hands of intense dieting and weight cycling. She went to university with what she now understands as an undiagnosed eating disorder but because she ‘never became thin’, she never would have called it so. After training to be a health coach, during what she had at the time considered her recovery, she also slid the slippery slope of ‘toxic wellness’. Harri finally fully healed her relationship with food and her body through Intuitive Eating, learning massage therapy (and discovering how incredible human anatomy is) the rise of the body positivity movement. An important strand to her work is to spread the word that bodies are not political which she does via the rebellious community Anti Diet Riot Club. For the last five years, she’s been teaching body acceptance via her 1:1 coaching, blog and workshops and in 2019, she had her first book published entitled You Are Enough (Octopus Publishing). Most recently, she is the creator of Wonder Collective. Wonder Collective is the first club where recovering dieters and disordered eaters can embrace the magic of life through 13 'Pillars of Wonder'. These pillars include for e.g. curiosity, play, belonging and acceptance and take members *beyond* thinking about their body, even in a positive way, to refocus on all that makes life juicy. She is happiest in a festival field or curled up with a book. And is a self-proclaimed coffee addict. She lives in Bristol with her partner and dog. Find her online at HarriRose.com. Ayana Habtemariam MSW, RD, LDN, is a nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and macro social worker based in Arlington, Va. She is the owner of Truly Real Nutrition, LLC, a private nutrition practice where she empowers clients to give up dieting in exchange for trusting their bodies and breaking free from food rules that result in feelings of failure and shame. She encourages her clients to embrace the beauty, power, and connection that their food traditions, personal experiences, and values add to their lives. She provides nutrition therapy for clients with disordered eating and those who are recovering from an eating disorder. She is committed to increasing awareness of weight inclusive philosophies in Black communities and believes that weight-centric approaches to health and wellness only serve to exacerbate body image issues, stress, and anxiety which contribute to increased rates of chronic diseases often seen in Black communities. Find her online at TrulyRealNutrition.com. If you're ready to break free from diet culture once and for all, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. Christy's book, Anti-Diet, is available wherever you get your books. Order online at christyharrison.com/book, or at local bookstores across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Grab Christy's free guide, 7 simple strategies for finding peace and freedom with food, for help getting started on the anti-diet path. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, go to christyharrison.com/foodpsych. Ask your own question about intuitive eating, Health at Every Size, or eating disorder recovery at christyharrison.com/questions.
Today Zoe speaks to Molly Forbes, mother, writer, speaker, podcaster and body image campaigner. She uses her platform to raise awareness and try and bring change around the normality of the diet culture within our society and its effect on our children. They talk all things body image, as well as parenting, social media and more, a really thought provoking and value affirming episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS It is intrinsically important to all of us to embrace and normalise our bodies, especially around our children. As a journalist, Molly has many different roles including in radio and as a presenter. After moving to Devon, Molly focused on social media and blogging, she mostly spoke about the realistic motherhood experience and this is where her following started. In doing this she realised she had negative associations about her own body and she was conscious that she didn't want to raise her girls to feel this way. She spent time researching the topic of body image and then began writing more about body image, mental health and how these topics intercept with motherhood. Becoming body confident is an ongoing process. It is about recognising the messages around us and not allowing them to ‘seep in'. You need to have internal resilience but we also need to change the culture we live in. After coming to terms with all of these messages as an adult Molly turned her attention to how body image and culture impacts children. It's so important for adults to think about how they react to their own body and the things they say about it around children – they absorb everything. Don't body shame yourself or other people. Molly now creates workshops and ‘body happy' spaces for children to be in. And is starting to run masterclasses for parents (you can sign up for the first one below under valuable resources!) BEST MOMENTS “Giving an alternative to the glossy, picture perfect version of mother we often see” “My daughter asked me why I was weighing spinach and I didn't have an answer for her...if this is what I have to do to make my body look like this then maybe this isn't what my body is supposed to look like” “The mainstream narrative is still that thin is best” “We've never had a plus-size princess” “It's quite liberating not thinking about your body” VALUABLE RESOURCES Molly's IG:@mollyjforbes Molly's Podcast Body Cons The Body Happy Kids workshops for teachers and youth leaders that Molly runs: https://www.freefromdiets.org/body-happy-kids-workshop The first Body Happy Kids Masterclass (for parents and any adults who are ever around kids! Happening 30th Jan 2021 - waiting list now open): https://www.freefromdiets.org/masterclass https://www.freefromdiets.org/shop www.petalscharity.org www.tommys.org www.arc-uk.org www.sands.org.uk (Additional resources from Molly Forbes under 'Additional Resources below) ABOUT THE GUEST Molly J Forbes Body happy mum. A writer, campaigner and creator of workshops and podcasts. Molly's IG:@mollyjforbes Molly's Podcast Body Cons ABOUT THE HOST Zoe Cresswell Devoted mother of two (and a big hairy dog), UK trained midwife, doula and personal trainer, specialising in pre and postnatal fitness. Zoe was born in the UK and before moving to Dubai in 2013 and worked as a midwife in central London, both in a birth centre and a very busy NHS hospital. Although late to the scene, Zoe is an aspiring athlete having won numerous triathlons and representing Great Britain where she placed within the top 10 on the world stage. With her husband James, the couple will soon be launching their cloth nappy company, Bop & Bee, where they hope to inspire families to swap a few disposable nappies a day for the more planet friendly option of cloth. Zoe's goal is to share her knowledge and experience, tell real life stories, manage expectations and open up those often difficult conversations. Zoe's own motherhood journey has been full of twists and turns as she put everything on hold and went through numerous miscarriages and rounds of IVF. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram : @zoecresswell_me Facebook: Zoe Cresswell LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-cresswell ADDITIONAL VALUABLE RESOURCES Books that are a great introduction to the subject of body image / health / weight stigma and how it intersects with other social justice issues. For Adults: Health At Every Size by Lindo (formerly Linda) Bacon PhD Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings Train Happy by Tally Rye Big Fit Girl by Louise Green Just Eat It by Laura Thomas PhD Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf Body Positive Power by Megan Jayne Crabbe Anti Diet by Christy Harrison MPH, RD Books that are great for kids / teens: You Are Enough by Harri Rose (for teens and adults) Celebrate Your Body (and it's changes too!) by Sonya Renee Taylor (a body positive guide for girls aged 8+) Jemima Small Versus the Universe by Tamsin Winter It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr Her Body Can, by Katie Crenshaw and Ady Meschke Shapesville by Andy Mills and Becky Osborn Podcasts: Body Cons (Molly's!) Don't Salt My Game Food Psych Appearance Matters Train Happy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this solo episode of ‘Adulting With Ebonie’, I’m talking about Endings and Beginnings as season one of ‘Adulting with Ebonie’ draws to a close... Fav quotes from this episode: “I’ve been doing a lot of internal reflection about what the end of this decade means to me.” “Are you willing to say ‘No’ in order to create space?” “There are always going to be endings and beginnings in our lives.” “There have been so many interesting conversations that we’ve had since December 2017 and I want to continue to have incredible conversations with incredible people” In this episode I talk about: The importance of reviewing the last decade, and establishing what exactly the protagonist of your story (you) gets to do in the next chapter. A review of the last 109 episodes and the topics we have covered from the first ever guest episode of Adulting with Ebonie back in December 2017 with Thais Sky on the topic of Bypassing and Privilege. The episodes of ‘Adulting With Ebonie’ that touched on the topic of personal boundaries and relationships - starting from episode four with Amy Mitchell, I’ve talked about relationships with so many of my guests; I chatted with Nadia Munla about Tantrums, discussed communication with Elloa and Nige, and talked about resilience with Ty Johnson Anderson. We also explored the masculine and feminine with Sarah Akwisombe in ‘Yin and Yang in Business’ - something I’ll be exploring in greater depth this season. Some of the most popular episodes of the series include ‘Choosing Not To Have Children’ with Diana Mayor, as well as conversations on infertility with Alice Fyles and surrogacy with JoAn Richardson. I also discussed the topic of intimacy with Stacey Hererra and the issue of co-dependent behaviour with Jo Westwood. The episodes of ‘Adulting with Ebonie’ that focused on body, health and wellbeing, including the episode on body rebellion and listening with Stella Stathi, talking about holistic health with Jo Gamble and breaking out of diet culture with Harri Rose. I also chatted with Hazel Butler about mental health and Sam Hearne about overcoming anxiety. How many of the most popular episodes of this season touched on the idea of spirituality and self, including the episode on Spirituality and Money with Sarupa Shah, conversations on intuition with Sam Mant, a discussion on Jungian Personality Typing with CS Joseph and the episode on Lucid Dreaming and Shadow Work with Charlie Morley. That we’ve talked money this season too, from the ‘Juicy Sexy Money’ episode with Lara Rose Duong to my conversation with Rosie Sloesek about business finances and self-care Plus, I talk about going deeper with my guests next season, and the changes coming up in Season 2 of ‘Adulting With Ebonie’.
This week, Ebonie chats with Harri Rose about 'breaking out of diet culture'. Harri is a certified health coach and author specialising in unapologetic body acceptance. Through her one-to-one coaching, workshops, and writing, Harri teaches her clients how to love their bodies, find more self-compassion and discover what wellness means to them. Her new book ‘https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Are-Enough-embrace-awesomeness/dp/1783253207/ (You are enough’) is out now. She is also co-creator at the Anti-Diet Riot Club and an emotional resilience trainer with Tough Cookie. You can find Harri's website online at https://www.harrirose.com/ (https://www.harrirose.com/) Fav quotes from this episode: “I thought by now I would have all my shit together!’ “It’s a bit hard, isn’t it, this adulting stuff” “A lot of the trauma that happens around food happens at home” “We need to give ourselves permission to enjoy this festive tradition of feasting… it’s normal, it’s Christmas!” “Food doesn’t have to be hard” “There’s no perfect diet” “You need a rebel attitude to bust out of diet culture and the unrealistic expectations of what we should be looking like!” “I’m an adult but… time-keeping is hard! I’m perpetually late” In this episode we talk about: The impact that breakups and other major life transitions can have on your long term happiness and becoming a more authentic version of yourself That major decisions don’t have to last a lifetime! Life is long and we are allowed to change. Why there doesn’t seem to be a boundary with family members when it comes to making comments about body image, and why it’s worth making coping plans for the Christmas period when you’re likely to come into contact with people who make these comments. How it’s people’s own projections of body confidence and beauty that causes them to make comments and assumptions about your relationship with food, diet and your body. That the ‘thin ideal’ is just one standard of beauty, but that it controls so much of what we think and do. How the process and journey to making peace with food isn’t easy, but it is possible. “Fat” isn’t a feeling - if you are feeling “Fat”, it could be that you are feeling sad, you are feeling sluggish. It’s important to establish what the underlying feelings are. Plus, we talk about how gentle movement STILL COUNTS when it comes to improving health and wellbeing, and that you don’t need to be “smashing it” in terms of exercise to see and feel the benefits.
Harri Rose is a coach, author and speaker who helps people to lose their diet mentality and live lives of more body confidence and freedom. We chat about: What ‘diet culture’ is and why it’s such a problem Harri’s most powerful tools for body confidence Why getting curious is the antidote to your anxiety How […] The post Ep 75. You Are Enough w/ Harri Rose appeared first on Calmer You.
Harri Rose is a qualified health coach and mindfulness teacher in training. She teaches body acceptance, self compassion and creative living. Harri believes that for too long we have been apologising for our bodies - and that diet culture and beauty standards are holding us back. Through her writing, workshops and 1:1 clients, Harri helps people to live their lives without rules and restriction and embrace how amazing they really are. On the show we chat about body positivity, body acceptance, boobs and body neutrality, and busting the myth of the diet industry. Find out more about Harri Rose: Website Instagram Anti Diet Riot Club
Ooh we have a treat of a podcast for you this week as we got to interview the gorgeous and infectiously joyful Harri Rose, a health coach who helps women to unapologetically love their bodies. Listen in as we talk about body love, body confidence and body acceptance and how, treating your body with love, kindness and compassion can totally transform your life. And not a diet in sight! We loved recording this podcast and we think Harri’s work is so needed right now (particularly at the start of the year when we are flooded with messages of gym memberships and diets). [Head over here](https://www.harrirose.com/) for more Harri Rose magic and to find out how to work with her. Can’t wait for you to listen to the podcast - let us know what you think and what resonated with you. We always love to hear from you! x Selina & Vicki
With wedding season well underway, Laura speaks to Harri Rose about how to stay true to yourself and not get swept up in wedding fever. Harri is a certified health coach who helps people get unf*cked up from diet culture around food and their bodies so that they can live their best life and create their own version of wellness. She has done talks for organisations such as Sony Music and will be at many of the UK’s biggest festivals this summer with the Anti Riot Diet Club. In this episode Laura and Harri discuss: ✨Finding a dressmaker or shop which supports and inspires you to find the right dress/outfit without body-shaming you ✨Choosing your wedding support team wisely ✨Investing in a photographer who makes you feel great ✨How to protect yourself from the diet culture/wedding industry crossover SHOW NOTES {Harri on Instagram | Website} {The Ugly Truth About Wedding Diets} {Wedding Workout for Stress Relief} {8 Ways To Be A Body Positive Bride} {My Wedding Was Perfect - Lindy West} {Rock n’ Roll Bride} {The Skincare Bible} {Anti Diet Riot Club}