For our sixth Collective Health Conversation, we'll be talking with my mentors, Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kinavey, founders of Be Nourished and creators of many programs designed to liberate people from the lies of diet culture. I am currently enrolled in their Body Trust Provider Certification program and it's just. so. good.

The first time I heard Dana and Hilary speak, I experienced a deep inner shift. They used terms like "body story," "body diversity," "body shame," and "body trust." They talked about weight stigma and fat phobia as a social justice issue.

I cannot recommend enough that you join me in this conversation. Diet culture is exactly that: a culture. It's so close, it's very difficult to see. Dana and Hilary will help us begin to unwind  diet culture both on a systemic level and on an internal level.

We are steeped in beliefs that body size and health are inextricably linked, and to get healthy, one must lose weight. But  "taking care of yourself" doesn't equate with changing your body size. In fact, according to Dana and Hilary, "...diet mentality disregards our emotional well-being in order to reach a goal of becoming smaller in size. We don’t often notice that when we believe 'thinner is better,' we are disparaging the beauty, worth and inherent human value that comes in people of all sizes."

During this conversation we will talk about:

• where the tendrils of diet culture show up in the self-care industry, health-care industry, and at the gym;
• the health risks of weight-cycling
• how BMI is BS
• how to live in your body without a "plan"
• how letting go of dieting isn't the same as "letting yourself go"
• why weight stigma is a social justice issue

and

• how to care for yourself in ways that are weight-neutral;
• how to build trust between you and your body as a way of healing from diet culture and body shame
• how to change the conversations about bodies

I'm thrilled to share Dana and Hilary's wisdom and their work with you.