The Problem Is In the Culture, Not Your Body - Interview With Lindo Bacon, PhD

Show Notes

#032  Fed up with diets and wellness hype? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food, weight and body image challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective.  She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Lindo Bacon who has been a well respected researcher and professor in the fields of physiology, psychology and exercise metabolism for almost 20 years and who is widely known for transforming the discourse on weight with the body positivity movement.

They are the best selling author of paradigm shifting books: Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight and the co-author of Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight.  Both these books have helped to expand the Health at Every Size philosophy which at the core is a social justice framework that respects the diversity of body shapes and sizes, supporting equitable access to health care, and rejecting weight discrimination and stigma.

In this heartwarming conversation, we talk about Dr. Bacon's newly released book Radical Belonging - How To Survive and Thrive In An Unjust World (While Transforming It For the Better).  In this authentic consciousness raising memoir,  they ask us to explore the ways that power, privilege and disadvantage complicate the experience of our bodies.   Dr. Bacon invites us to an elevated conversation  about diet, size and weight that goes beyond  the self help approach and through the lens of social justice.  

Their paradigm goes right to the root cause of our body struggles by evaluating the social conditioning and culture that gives rise to all the self harming habits, compulsions that derail our health.   It  lightens the burden of toxic shame and self blame but  it' s also  beautiful all to action for building a more compassionate and equitable world.

Dr. Bacon’s book touched me deeply because it goes to the heart of our shared struggle  - we all know in one way or another  the  pain of living a life based on not who we truly are  - the pain of not feeling at home in our skin -  safe in our very own bodies.  The cost of being deprived of this basic sense of belonging taxes our health and wellbeing on all levels.   

Visit:  https://lindobacon.com