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The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty

Welcome to The BodyLove Project Podcast, I’m Jessi Haggerty a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Personal Trainer living in Boston and, your host! Each episode we’ll dive into a different topic where we dig deep to develop a healthier relationship with food and your body. In a nutshell, this podcast is about loving your body. Whether that means learning how to nourish your body with food, movement, meditation, or positive self talk. My hope is to help listeners take one step closer to mending their relationship with food and their body, so they can show up for the parts of their life that matter most.
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Feb 22, 2017

Nina Manolson helps women end their war with food and make peace with their body.  She is a Certified Psychology of Eating Teacher and Holistic Health Coach, with 25 years experience in the Health and Wellness field. She also holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology. She is the founder of www.NinaManolson.com and the author of Feed Your Kids Well In A World That Doesn’t: An Everyday Guide to Make Healthy Food Happen in your Home and Beyond. and is currently working on her next book: Becoming a Nourished Woman: The Seven-Step Path to Feeling at Home and Joyful in Your Body.

Nina’s journey of self discovery began with body hate. Eventually she was able to move from a place of body hate to body love, but it was no small task. Nina’s work is based on nourishment and specifically focuses on 3 factors: discovering what foods nourish your body, establishing a lifestyle that supports you, and reaching deeper levels of mindset and emotion. After working with women at a yoga and health center for many years she felt that a majority of the work she was doing was counseling and therefore decided to go back to school to receive her masters in counseling psychology. Combining psychology and nutrition, Nina is now a health coach and psychology of eating coach.

One important component of Nina’s approach is the Body Love Continuum. This is a continuum starting with body hate progressing to body love with many steps in between. She created this continuum because of the huge chasm between body hate and body love in our society. The media is finally getting on board with this idea of Body Love but moving from Body Hate to Body Love does not happen overnight. This is where Nina’s continuum comes in to help navigate from this place of Body Hate to Body Love.

The first step on the road from Body Love to Body Hate is Body Management. Body Management is where we seek control of or bodies through a diet or an exercise regimen but do not feel connected to our bodies. The key component to move from Body Management to Body Awareness is the beginning of a relationship with your body. The shift towards Body Positive and Body Love begins with Body Awareness. This is when we become curious about our feelings and our experiences but without judgement and learn to be body current. This idea of body current means that you are in a relationship with your body as it is TODAY and not, for example, the body that you had in college that you wish you still had.

As we take better care of ourselves through nourishing practices and develop more appreciation and kindness towards our bodies, they will begin to recognize what we need and provide positive feedback, moving us from Body Awareness to Body Positivity. And finally, as you continue to be more aware of your body and continue with nourishing practices, you will then move to Body Positivity and Body Love.

It is important to understand that this is a continuum and therefore once you are in a place of Body Love, it does not mean you stay there forever. However, this continuum provides the necessary knowledge to get yourself back to that place of body love.

Nina reminds us that Body Love doesn’t have to come from losing weight. Body Love comes from being in a positive relationship with our bodies and knowing how to take care of them. This journey can be intimidating and even scary but it is an opportunity to grow and evolve as a person and is MUCH more interesting and self rewarding than the next fad diet. 

Resources:

visit www(dot)jessihaggerty(dot)com(slash)blog(slash)blp10 for links to all resources mentioned in this episode. 

Feb 15, 2017

It took Rebecca several years in the field to establish her body kindness approach. She started her career in nutrition using methods such as meal planning, calorie counting, fitness tracking, and good ol’ fashioned motivation to help her clients achieve their weight loss goals. After a few years in the business, her weight-centered approach became less motivational and more problematic as she began to notice that her clients believed they were in complete control of the number on the scale. She quickly realized that weight loss was not the answer to her clients problems, but instead the cause. This motivated Rebecca to develop her Body Kindness approach for herself, and for her clients.

In this interview, Rebecca points out that diet books sell because they subtly let you know that you’re not good enough as you are right now, but if you do what they say, you will be better. Wanting to take a different approach, Rebecca wrote her book, Body Kindness. Body Kindness is not a set of rules that must be followed, it is an approach where you can tailor a way of eating that is going to fit you best. If you want to learn more about the Body Kindness approach, click here to purchase the book, and listen to the full episode below!

Resources:

Jessi’s Website
Jessi’s FREE Intuitive Eating Audio Course
Body Kindness Book
Body Kindness Free Course
The BodyLove Project Master Class
Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole
Body Kindness by Rebecca Scritchfield
Things No One Tells Fat Girls by Jess Baker
Big Girl, How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life by Kelsey Miller
Food Psych Podcast

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