#134: Body Image as We Age: Navigating Perimenopause with Summer Innanen

Sep 23

This week on the Full Plate Podcast, Summer Innanen returns for her second (!!) time on the pod to speak with Abbie about the challenges of body image during perimenopause.

With the ever-present pressure from diet culture -- preying on our insecurities, selling us anti-aging creams, 'fixes' for menopause symptoms, and endless diets to keep our bodies as small as possible -- it’s exhausting. This conversation takes a deeper look at what's happening as we age out of the beauty standard, the challenges we face with body grief, and how we can truly support ourselves and our changing bodies.

We chat about so much in this one, including...

What's happening to the body in perimenopause
Why body image can worsen in midlife
Navigating physical and hormonal changes
Experiencing body grief as we age
The effects of psychosocial and life stressors on body image
How diet culture targets women in midlife
Marginalized identities and aging
Social comparison and anti-aging culture
Managing social media around diet culture and aging
Taking a compassionate approach to aging
How to challenge our negative beliefs about getting older

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She is the host of the podcast Eat The Rules and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program with Danni Adams to train professionals to be better equipped to work with clients around body image. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com.

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