Understanding Body Positivity & Fat Phobia // with Emily Lauren Dick
02/15/22 • 29 min
What does representation have to do with body image? What's body positivity, and what's body neutrality? Are you fat-phobic? Do your words and use of the word "fat" inadvertently feed into fat culture?
In this week’s episode, body positivity expert Emily Lauren Dick delves into all of these questions and more.
Emily explains:
- The origin of body image issues
- The difference between body positivity and body neutrality
- What parents can do to help their daughters love their bodies
- Fat phobia and fat talk, and how to avoid feeding into thin culture
For more info and to follow Emily Lauren Dick:
- www.happydaughter.com
- Instagram: @realhappydaughter
- Find Emily’s Book, Body Positive: A Guide to Loving Your Body on www.happydaughter.com , Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
Other references in this episode:
- Ep. 22 with Lacey C. Clark! on Self-Love and Second-Guessing Society’s Definition of Success
- Ep. 19 with Neysa Page-Lieberman - Building Monuments to Resemble and Represent Us
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What does representation have to do with body image? What's body positivity, and what's body neutrality? Are you fat-phobic? Do your words and use of the word "fat" inadvertently feed into fat culture?
In this week’s episode, body positivity expert Emily Lauren Dick delves into all of these questions and more.
Emily explains:
- The origin of body image issues
- The difference between body positivity and body neutrality
- What parents can do to help their daughters love their bodies
- Fat phobia and fat talk, and how to avoid feeding into thin culture
For more info and to follow Emily Lauren Dick:
- www.happydaughter.com
- Instagram: @realhappydaughter
- Find Emily’s Book, Body Positive: A Guide to Loving Your Body on www.happydaughter.com , Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other booksellers.
Other references in this episode:
- Ep. 22 with Lacey C. Clark! on Self-Love and Second-Guessing Society’s Definition of Success
- Ep. 19 with Neysa Page-Lieberman - Building Monuments to Resemble and Represent Us
Know Them, Be Them, Raise Them
Subscribe here: Apple, Spotify, Google. New episodes drop every Tuesday (and sometimes in between).
For more doses of information and inspiration:
- follow @knowberaisethem on Instagram
- Like the podcast page on Facebook
- sign up for our monthly newsletter
- visit www.knowberaisethem.com
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Know Them, Be Them, Raise Them - Understanding Body Positivity & Fat Phobia // with Emily Lauren Dick
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[00:00:00] Carmelita (Cat) Tiu, Host: Hello, all. Welcome to Know Them, Be Them, Raise Them, a show to help busy, mindful, and growth oriented moms stay informed and inspired as they navigate their daughter's tween and teen years. I'm your host Carmelita Tiu. Join me each week as I talk to experts, authors, moms who've been there and read a curated selection of articles on occasion, with the author's permission of course.
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