138: Discussing Body Image with Anne Poirier

Thrive Beyond Size

Content Warning: This episode contains in-depth conversations about eating disorders, internal shame regarding body size, and body image

Today I’m having an open and honest conversation with Anne Poirier about body image and our relationships with food. Anne is a nationally recognized Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, author of “The Body Joyful”, a Certified Self-Talk Trainer, eating disorder specialist, and life coach. She is the leader of the body joyful movement and does a lot of body image and body neutrality work. She shares her own lived experiences with disordered eating with me in this discussion and we talk a lot about diet culture. We get vulnerable in this episode and we also address why we don’t talk about this subject enough. This is a necessary conversation, even if it’s difficult, and I’m so glad Anne is having it with me.

Anne shares her history with anorexia nervosa and binge eating and how the body messages in her head followed her through hospitalization and into a career in the fitness realm. The pressure from society to look a certain way, to embrace what I call “the thin ideal”, has always been powerful but especially in today’s world of 24/7 social media bombardment about how to look and eat. Anne and I talk about learning to question what we choose to believe about bodies, food, and eating. We need to identify the loathing self-talk in our heads and listen to our own bodies instead of those outside voices. Our conversation really dives into how we see ourselves, how that’s tied to how we see food, how we eat or don’t eat, and the shame we’ve carried around for so long. It’s a deeply personal and important episode and I can’t wait for you all to hear what Anne has to say.

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About Anne Poirier:
Anne Poirier CSCS, is a nationally recognized Body Image Expert, author of The Body Joyful, and Not a Fat Annie and leader of the Body Joyful Revolution. As a pioneer and leading voice for the body neutrality movement, she has been featured and cited in major media outlets around the world including Shape, Women’s Health, New York Times, Washington Post, Livestrong, Huff Post, ABC, Fox, CBS and NPR.

As a long-time eating disorder survivor, non-diet coach and certified self-talk trainer Anne serves on the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Lived Experience Task Force. In a 35+ year fitness and coaching career and now as a certified Intuitive Eating Councilor, Eating Disorder Specialist and Life Coach, Anne helps women free themselves from diet culture and society’s thin ideal using her Body Joyful Solution.

Anne can be reached at [email protected]
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Resources discussed in this episode:

• “The Body Joyful” by Anne Poirier
• “Not a Fat Annie” by Anne Poirier
• “When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies” by Jane R. Hirschman and Carol H. Hunter

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