Best Nia Patterson Podcasts (2024)

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#016: My Body Trauma Story: How We Cope with Emotions with Nia Patterson 1:01:16

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This week is the last episode of Season 1 of Body Trauma. And for this episode, it is a solo episode with just Nia speaking for the podcast. In this week's episode, I tell you the story of my own body's trauma throughout the years. I start from birth and move up to the present day. We get into a lot of raw feelings and places. Please listen along t…

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#015: Where Do Marginalized People Go To Find Their Utopia? with Caleb Luna 1:12:41

4y ago1:12:41

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Caleb Luna (@chairbreaker), a fat queer (of color) critical theorist, artist, and performance scholar joins Nia Patterson for the fifteenth episode of the podcast. In this week's episode the two of us talk about Caleb's upbringing living with various forms of abuse and trauma. From familial trauma to bullying and more. Caleb also tells us about wha…

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#014: How to Handle Not Being Liked with Megan Crabbe @bodyposipanda 1:36:53

4y ago1:36:53

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Megan Crabbe (@bodyposipanda), an author, influencer, performer and so much more joins Nia Patterson for the fourteenth episode of the podcast. This week the two of us talk about everything Megan and we cover a lot of topics! We talk about Megan's experiences growing up in a biracial body and also a "chunky" body as she puts it. We talk about her e…

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#013: Unpacking Black Liberation and Black Mental Health with Monique Melton 43:25

4y ago43:25

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Monique Melton, an anti-racism educator, published author, international speaker, and fellow podcast host joins Nia Patterson for the thirteenth episode of the podcast. This week the two of us talk about Monique's experiences growing up in a Black body and also about Black Liberation and the ways she benefits from privilege even in a multiply-margi…

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#012: The Trauma of Chronic Illness and How Does Privilege Help Us Move Through the World Easier? with Anna Sweeney 50:42

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Anna Sweeney, a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor joins Nia Patterson for a talk about chronic illness and privilege. This week on the twelfth episode of the podcast we talk about Anna's experience growing up with developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) since the age of 12 and how that has caused phy…

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#011: Swatting Away the Negative Thoughts and Critiques About our Bodies with Dalina Soto 44:55

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Dalina Soto, MA, RD, LDN, a bilingual registered dietitian at Your Latina Nutritionist joins Nia Patterson this week on the eleventh episode of the podcast. We talk about Dalina's experience with body image after the birth of her first child and developing stretch marks on her body. She talks about her life growing up within the Dominican cultural …

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#010: The Ways that Eating Disorders and Exercise Addiction Cause Trauma to our Bodies with Naomi Savin 58:04

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Naomi Savin, a writer, recovery advocate and blogger, joins Nia Patterson for an episode about eating disorders and exercise addiction. This week on the tenth episode of the podcast we talk about Naomi's experience with anorexia when she was in high school and the exercise addiction she developed as a result of that. She talks about her life growin…

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#009: Living Life with Type 1 Diabetes and Learning to Advocate for our Bodies with Sarah Buchanan 1:21:04

4y ago1:21:04

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Sarah Buchanan, an author, artist, food blogger, and one of my really good friends joins Nia Patterson for what is probably our funniest episode to date! This week on the ninth episode of the podcast we talk about Sarah's experience being a Type 1 Diabetic since the age of 4 and how that has affected her physical health as well as her mental health…

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#008: How our Bodies are Affected by Racism, OCD, and Childhood Trauma with Carolina Guízar 1:08:18

4y ago1:08:18

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Carolina Guízar, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor, joins Nia Patterson this week on the eight episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma growing up in a straight-size, Latinx body. She talks about her life growing up with childhood trauma and racism. We talk about OCD and the different ways it p…

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#007: Recovery from an Eating Disorder through Body Neutrality and Dance with Colleen Werner 1:11:25

4y ago1:11:25

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Colleen Werner, a ballet dancer, writer, and therapist-in-training, joins Nia Patterson this week on the seventh episode of the podcast to talk about her life experiences growing up with an eating disorder in a weight centric family. She talks about her history with dance and how she has started to dance again late in her recovery and since she's b…

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#006: Living with Mental and Physical Illness as a Fat, Black Woman in America with Evette Dionne 1:13:02

4y ago1:13:02

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Evette Dionne, a Black feminist culture journalist, critic, author and editor-in-chief, joins Nia Patterson this week on the sixth episode of the podcast to talk about her body's experiences with physical health and mental health while being black in America. We talk about how black and fat women are expected to uphold hyperfemininity in their day-…

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#005: What Is It Like Being Black in America With Mental Illness and How Do We Treat It? with Alishia McCullough 1:08:57

4y ago1:08:57

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Alishia McCullough, a black Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist, joins Nia Patterson this week on the fifth episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma, racism, eating disorder recovery, and being black in the mental health field. We talk about what is going on the country right now with the War on Black and we talk about how can we …

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#004: Ways Our Bodies Hold onto Trauma through PTSD and Chronic Pain with Jude Valentin 1:25:56

4y ago1:25:56

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Jude Valentin is a content creator who posts @mermaidqueenjude, joins Nia Patterson this week on the fourth episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma, chronic pain, PTSD, and eating disorder recovery. We talk about processing grief, cooking and food, holding space for our followers, and our mutual theater kid histories. This episode is r…

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#003: How Does Social Media Influence our Body Image and Perceived Self Worth? with Clare @recoverybrainfood 1:18:11

4y ago1:18:11

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Clare, an instagram figure who posts @recoverybrainfood, joins Nia Patterson this week on the third episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma and eating disorder recovery. We talk about damaging parenting, major weight loss from an eating disorder, and then branch off into talking about our social media accounts and how we manage them. T…

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#002: Growing up Black / How Racism Shapes our Relationships with our Bodies with Ayana Habtemariam 1:06:52

4y ago1:06:52

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Ayana Habtemariam, a registered anti-diet dietitian and social worker joins Nia Patterson on this second episode of the podcast to discuss body trauma in her life. We talk about racism and discrimination based on our bodies and how these create tangible trauma in our bodies. We also confess some little-known secrets about black women. Ayana is a nu…

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#001: What is Body Trauma and What Do All These Words Mean? with Ayesha King 42:22

4y ago42:22

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Fellow woman of color and Nia’s best friend, Ayesha King, joins us on this episode of the podcast to discuss the various body traumas that exist. We also talk about where we hope this podcast is going and we get some good laughs in along the way. Ayesha King is a thirty-something California native. She identifies as Filipino-Bengali, a first-genera…

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Body Trauma Trailer 2:23

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Body Trauma premieres in May 2020! For a quick intro to what this podcast will be about take a listen to Nia Patterson introduce herself and the podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and check us out at www.bodytraumapod.com for more.By Nia Patterson

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Episode 22: Solo Pep Talk--Embracing Failure, Starting/Growing a Business, The Future of my Instagram, and answering your most burning questions about entrepreneurship! 35:13

5+ y ago35:13

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Join me for my first solo episode in a long time! I'm celebrating my best month of business EVER by talking all about business, entrepreneurship, and how my self love/recovery journey impacted everything.By Rachel Spencer

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Episode 21: What is Body Positivity? + Eating Disorders, NEDA, and Being a Fat Ally, with Nia Patterson of @thefriendineverwanted 55:10

5+ y ago55:10

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Nia Patterson joins me to chat about her journey to Body Positivity. We dive into the difference between Body Positivity vs. Self-Love, how thin people can be better fat allies, her work with NEDA, and changing the conversation around what eating disorders "look" like. Nia is an eating disorder recovery and mental health advocate. She has spent muc…

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Episode 20: Is Instagram a Safe Place? + diet culture, exercise addiction, complimenting people on their weight, and more with Naomi Savin of @dietculturesucks 50:31

5+ y ago50:31

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Naomi joins me to tell her story about recovering from binge eating and exercise addiction. We tackle a ton of important subjects including: -The cycle of binge eating and exercise compulsion -How eating disorders do NOT have a specific look/size -Body image issues vs Eating Disorders -How to use Instagram as a safe space to heal -How to approach a…

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Episode 19: "Your mental illness does not define you" with Baylee Alana of @anxietysupport 50:32

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Baylee Alana of the Instagram community, @anxietysupport, joins me for an incredible chat about mental health, healing, vocalizing your anxiety, finding a good support system, and not letting your mental illness define who you are. Oh, and let's not forget our 5-minute conversation about "Friends"(the tv show), significant others, and pizza! For re…

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Episode 18: Brain Hacks to Fight Disordered Thoughts + Healing in a Way that Feels Good to YOU - with Amanda Richards 41:13

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Amanda is a Body Image Expert, Intuitive Mentor, and total Neuroscience junkie! Her amazing story of recovering from an eating disorder and being in abusive relationships is something many of us can relate to. She joins me here to talk about WHY we have negative/disordered thought patterns and how to take control of those thoughts with simple "brai…

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Episode 17: Trans Education, Xploring Gender, Being Kind to Yourself + Q&A - with Charlie Baker 1:11:14

5+ y ago1:11:14

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My good friend and Trans Educator, Charlie Baker, joins me for one of the most important conversations yet. Together in this episode, we've created a safe space to ask questions and be open about the experiences of trans and non-binary individuals. Charlie specifically tells us about his experience coming out to his family, dating life, "dead" name…

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Episode 16: "FAT is not a bad word"...and other mic drops w/ Luddy Figueroa 33:13

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Luddy Figueroa, plus-sized stylist and self-love coach, joins me to talk about the unbalanced modeling industry, the words "fat" and "healthy", and feeling sexy at any size. If you love this episode, please share and tag @mycoachrachel on Instagram! Luddy, The Confidence & Couture Connoisseur--as she calls herself--is a personal stylist and self lo…

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Episode 15: Why the "BMI" is bullsh*t + how to raise body confident kids w/ Dana Suchow 46:00

5+ y ago46:00

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Award-winning speaker, educator, and coach, Dana Suchow, joins me for a chat about her experience with an eating disorder and how that led to her becoming a coach for parents/caregivers who want to raise their children to feel body confident. In our conversation, she gives examples of some amazing tools to use when you/a child is feeling negatively…

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Episode 14: Chronic Illness, Practicing Gratitude, Self-Love, and more w/ Nitika Chopra 37:32

5+ y ago37:32

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Blogger, Talk Show Host, Chronic Illness Advocate, and Self-love Guru--Nitika Chopra--sits down with me to talk about her journey dealing with Psoriasis/Psoriatic Arthritis and the physical, mental, and emotional effects that come with it. She also dives into her self-love practices and what truly made her see her worth. With her calming voice and …

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Episode 13: Overcoming Addiction, Sexual Trauma, and Bulimia + The Purpose of using Witchcraft in her Self-Love Journey w/ Shawn Engel of @WitchyWisdoms 49:16

5+ y ago49:16

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Trigger Warning--Addiction/Eating Disorders/Sexual Assault: My dear friend, Shawn Engel of @WitchyWisdoms, joins me for a serious discussion about her experience with drugs, Bulimia, and sexual assault. Though her story is heartbreaking, she now uses her struggles as an educational platform to help empower other women. We also dive into her self-lo…

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Episode 12: "Thank U, Next" Why the Year my Ex Dumped me Became the Sexiest Year of my Life + Why being Single was so Healing 13:34

5+ y ago13:34

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Join me for a solo pep talk where I tell the story about my ex and why I'm SO grateful for being dumped. But this isn't an "eff all men" episode. Not at all. It's more about finally realizing how special, sexy, and worthy you are without needing validation from a partner.By Rachel Spencer

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Episode 11: Diet Culture, Intuitive Eating, Bullsh*t Food Rules and more w/ Registered Dietician Whitney Catalano 40:03

5+ y ago40:03

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Whitney of (@trustyourbodyproject) dives into her story of becoming obsessed with dieting and food restriction at a very young age. Through therapy, intuitive eating, and learning more about nutrition, she went through recovery. Now, she wants to use social media and one-on-one coaching to help other women make peace with their bodies and beat bing…

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Episode 10: ED Recovery, Chronic Illness, The Decision to go to Therapy, and Telling your Family you have an Eating Disorder w/ Dena Angela of @EnjoytheJ0urney 43:08

5+ y ago43:08

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Dena Angela of @enjoythej0urney joins me for an eye-opening discussion about the reality behind chronic illness and eating disorders. We specifically dive into the moment she decided to check into in-patient therapy, how she told her family she needed help, and how living with Lupus affects her every day life. If you enjoy this episode, please shar…

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Episode 9: Body Love, Sex, Toxic Relationships, and more w/ Love Expert Stephanie Churma 50:42

5+ y ago50:42

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Expert Stephanie Churma of Good Love Co. joins me for a sultry conversation about self love, sex, relationships, and total body acceptance. Stephanie Churma is the owner and founder of The Good Love Company. As a relationship coach, expert and speaker, her mission is to wake up modern love and empower women to find themselves first before they find…

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Episode 8: The Science Behind CBD Oil + All your Burning Questions Answered! with Founder & CEO of Tonic CBD, Brittany Tricolla 50:12

5+ y ago50:12

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"Will CBD show up on a drug test? Will it make me sleepy? Does it help with Depression? What are Cannabinoids? Is it toxic? What's the difference between CBD and THC?" As an affiliate for a CBD company, I receive these questions ALL the time. And although I am an avid user, I thought I'd bring in the PRO to answer all your burning questions. Founde…

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Episode 7: Why I Love Using CBD Oil and What it Feels Like + A Special Gift 13:48

5+ y ago13:48

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Join me as I talk about my first experience using CBD oil and why I'm so obsessed with it now. CBD is all the rage on social media, but does it work? And what does it actually feel like? I'm answering all that and more. To try Tonic CBD, go to www.tonicvibes.com and use the code "mycoachrachel" for 10% off. Find me on Instagram @mycoachrachel…

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Episode 6: Anxiety, My First Panic Attack, and What I Use to Manage My Symptoms 26:25

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Trigger Warning—panic attacks/anxiety: Join me for a serious talk about the very real and very difficult symptoms of anxiety. I’m diving into the story of my first panic attack...and I’m not holding back. Just like the intro of this podcast states—the journey isn’t always rainbows and butterflies. So on this episode, we’re getting raw and vulnerabl…

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Episode 5: Beauty Queens, Therapy, Eating Disorders, and Body Love with Kelsey Griswold 55:29

5+ y ago55:29

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Miss Oklahoma 2013, Second runner-up to Miss America 2014, and my dear friend, Kelsey Griswold, joins me for an eye-opening conversation about her journey in the pageant world. One of the important topics we tackle is the removal of the swimsuit portion from the Miss America competition this past year. You don’t want to miss this one. Kelsey Griswo…

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Episode 4: Hormones, Eating Psychology, Food Guilt, Recovery, and More w/ Expert Jessica Rothley 37:44

5+ y ago37:44

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Jess Rothley of WhollyHealed joins me to talk about the psychology behind WHY we think and feel the way we do about our bodies. We dive deep into all aspects of body image including why we CANNOT judge people’s health based on looks. Jess Rothley is a Certified Eating Psychology Coach specializing in Functional Endocrinology and the voice behind al…

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Episode 3: Two Things You Can Learn from ANY Triggering Situation 16:47

5+ y ago16:47

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I’m detailing a recent visit to my doctor’s office that left me disappointed and triggered. However, this experience gave me 2 key realizations about myself that make me grateful for all I’ve been through. (Please note: No trigger warning is used because although the situation was triggering for me, I do not release specific details about my experi…

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Episode 2: Four Self-love Exercises that will SMASH Negative Body Image or Low Self-esteem 31:56

5+ y ago31:56

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I’m walking you through my favorite, foolproof exercises that help me remain positive throughout recovery and my self-love journey. Not only will these exercises boost your mood and raise your confidence, they’ll quickly became a favorite part of your self-care activities. Come say hi and connect with me on Instagram: @mycoachrachel…

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Episode 1: Introduction + Welcome from Rachel 21:03

5+ y ago21:03

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Let me introduce myself! Come join me as I explain the purpose of this podcast by sharing my OWN journey to worthy. Come find me on Instagram: @mycoachrachelBy Rachel Spencer

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