Negative Body Image, Sexism and Patriarchy with David Bedrick
HealED Podcast - En podcast af Marie-Pier Pitre-D‘Iorio, RD, B.Sc.Psychology
In this week's episode, I got the chance to connect with David Bedrick to talk about body image, shame, sexism and the impact of the patriarchy on our relationship with our bodies. David is a wonderful story teller and sshare many powerful sot David is a psychotherapist, attorney and author of Talking Back to Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology and Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change. His new book is You Can’t Judge a Body by Its Cover: 17 Women's Stories of Hunger, Body Shame and Redemption. He is also the founder of the Santa Fe Institute for Shame based Studies where he teachers and works with individuals around the world. In this episode we talked about: Where does body shame come from? How is it linked to sexism? Knowing that diets don't work, why do we keep striving towards a thinner body? How can we start moving away from the shame cycle and reconnect with ourselves? How is this weight inclusive and anti diet work connected to social justice?
