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106: How to, for once and for all, make peace with your body

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Content provided by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, and MPH. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, and MPH or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
If you are dissatisfied with your body, you are not alone. While having self-doubts is a normal part of being human, if your self-evaluation is primarily dependent on your superficial appearance, your size or shape, that can lead to shame, negative self-talk, suffering and the use of extreme and harmful behaviors to reach the ever-elusive thin ideal. As well, it’s important to realize that trying to “hate yourself thin” can put stress on your body and increase belly fat and risk for diabetes and heart disease.

In this episode you will learn:

  1. What some women are willing to give up in exchange for a thin body.
  2. How to stop the transmission of body image issues from one generation to another.
  3. Why weight stigma may be the reason for health risks, not size!
  continue reading

118 episodes

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Manage episode 322285772 series 2475118
Content provided by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, and MPH. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, MPH, Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, and MPH or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
If you are dissatisfied with your body, you are not alone. While having self-doubts is a normal part of being human, if your self-evaluation is primarily dependent on your superficial appearance, your size or shape, that can lead to shame, negative self-talk, suffering and the use of extreme and harmful behaviors to reach the ever-elusive thin ideal. As well, it’s important to realize that trying to “hate yourself thin” can put stress on your body and increase belly fat and risk for diabetes and heart disease.

In this episode you will learn:

  1. What some women are willing to give up in exchange for a thin body.
  2. How to stop the transmission of body image issues from one generation to another.
  3. Why weight stigma may be the reason for health risks, not size!
  continue reading

118 episodes

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