Has our obsession with health and wellbeing replaced diet culture as a new dystopia for women? What's the connection between emotions and food? Is exercise really the answer to mental health? How come diets don't work? And what does?

Amy and Cerys discuss all of this with Helga, an arts consultant whose struggle with food was profoundly changed by the first lockdown, and Denise, a nutritional therapist and life coach who supports women to develop a genuinely positive relationship with food.

Resources

Body Positive Role Models
Jessamyn Stanley @mynameisjessamyn
Simone Charles  @simonecharles_
Bryony Gordon @bryonygordon

Body fat doesn’t necessarily determine health: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/health/19well.html

Books 
Fat Is A Feminist Issue (1978), Susie Orbach 
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get On the Mat, Love Your Body (2017), Jessamyn Stanley
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (2008), Lindo Bacon
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating (2019), Christy Harrison 
The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection (2017), John F. Cryan, Scott C. Anderson, and Ted Dinan

Compassionate Body Scan

https://youtu.be/FOm6dhob_tw