Guest Bio
Simone Harding
Simone is an Intuitive Eating Counsellor, currently finishing MSc Nutrition and Behaviour at Bournemouth University. She is also a PhD Counselling psychology candidate. Her academic research area is body image and adaptive eating, and she practices as a therapist in the field of nutrition, chronic dieting, body image and eating disorders.
In This Episode We Discuss
- The scale of the problem of negative body image
- Tying appearance to self-worth & personal identity
- External drivers of negative body image
- Root causes of obesity
- Why “self-responsability” isn’t helpful at scale
- Steps in modifying body image
- Self-talk: moving from negative to neutral to positive
- Can non-weight loss interventions improve health to the same degree as those that lead to weight loss in “at risk” groups (e.g. those with diabetes or with obesity)?
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- Simone’s website
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- Twitter: @simonejharding
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