Admit it, you’ve done this before. You’re on a date and you order the salad (dressing on the side, please) because you think it’s more ladylike and therefore more acceptable. As women, we internalize so many messages that society levies against us. One of those messages is that a big appetite is unfeminine and therefore unattractive. […]
I don’t know if I’m any more conscious of what I look like than any other woman, but maybe because I was obese up until 9 years ago (I used to weigh 265 lbs. and had a Body Mass Index of 43, which is clinically morbidly obese, and I now weigh 145 lbs. with a […]
Yes, “living authentically” may be a cliché these days, but we know someone who does it in the most hardcore, badass way that we just had to have her on our show. In this episode of The Naked Broad View, Jill and I talk to Stephanie Earling, a certified personal trainer, yoga instructor, and tattooed […]
Mar 14 2016
Jill and I sit down to talk with yoga instructor, eating psychology coach and former opera singer (Wha??? Yep!) Elisa Jordan. Elisa has been up and down the scale, and up and down the body image and self-worth roller coaster. In this episode of the Naked Broad View she shares how she came to find […]
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Jan 18 2016
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Jan 16 2016
Drumroll please….. TA DA!!! My friends, I’d like to introduce you to the Naked Broad View podcast! Naked Broad View is a new podcast I’ve been working on with my friend Jill Fagan. In this podcast, Jill and I will be talking about body image issues, relationships, feminism, food, and much more! As you’ll hear, […]
Jan 9 2016
A couple of my closest friends started Whole30 this week. I just ran into another friend who told me she ordered the 21-Day Fix system to lose weight. And every seat’s taken in my favorite spinning class. Seems everybody’s renewed a commitment to healthy living recently! In many ways it doesn’t even matter what program […]
Jan 7 2016
Am I limited to just one body part that drives me bonkers? We all have them; some of us have more than one. Maybe you tell yourself: Ugh, my bust is too big (or too small). My arms flap in the breeze. I hate the way my muffin top smooshes out over the top of […]
I thought I had my body image issues licked after having lost 120 lbs., but then I realized something that shook me to my core. At that moment it occurred to me that I’d just transferred my sense of okay-ness from “I’m bad because fat = bad” to “I’m good because thin = good”. But shouldn’t we be striving […]
It was about six weeks ago something occurred to me that really shook me to my core. I’m a little embarrassed to say that I hadn’t thought of it before. I’ll get to what triggered this epiphany in a sec, but the thought I had was just this: my body image hasn’t really changed since […]
Mar 17 2015
You needn’t go any farther than the magazine racks at the grocery store or social media to know that nowadays fitness advice looks like erotica. I find this trend disturbing on so many levels, and I’m certainly not the only one who’s noticed. Recently, Huffington Post carried a piece written by magazine mogul and fitness model, Tosca […]