Jessica Curran joined me on the Diet Culture Dropout Podcast where she shared her ideas of what body security means. She is a local psychotherapist who helps clients disentangle their self-worth from their bodies.

You can listen to the episode here.

 

This is what we covered in this week’s episode about Body Security:

• Jessica’s personal experience of difficult body talk conversations during pregnancy.
• Defining what body security is.
• Explain how people’s safety and security in their bodies can be jeopardized directly and indirectly.
• The ways body insecurity shows up in the body- mentally, physically, and emotionally.
• How fatphobia relates to body security. 
• The narrative that is common around describing fat people which drives the fear for people.
• Why do people place such a value on thinness and attach it to their self-worth
• Jessica shares her top 5 tips to start the process of developing a more aligned self-worth and sense of body security.

Connect with Jessica Curran by:

• Instagram @jessicalightpost
• Website 
• Her Blog 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonja Renee Taylor
• Your Body Is Not An Apology Workbook By Sonja Renee Taylor
• Christy Harrison’s podcast- Food Psych
• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Check out the full episode on body security here!