The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf with Michelle Vina-Baltsas

While this book was super intense, Michelle and I had a really great chat and we covered a lot of ground.  An overarching theme was loving your ageing body but some of the other topics included:

• Michelle’s body acceptance journey
• Body acceptance in an ageing body
• Why Michelle picked this book
• The Beauty Myth in a corporate environment
• What The Beauty Myth is
• Beauty, ageing and invisibility
• The Iron Maiden as a metaphor for The Beauty Myth
• Diet culture and The Beauty Myth
• The use of language in The Beauty Myth
• How The Beauty Myth affects men
• The discomfort of challenging mainstream beliefs
• What things have changed since this book was written
• The role of social media in our beauty obsessed world
• The importance of women supporting women
• Thinking about the intention behind your beauty routine

Please join me in just listening to Michelle's infectious laugh throughout this discussion!  I loved it so much.  

 

LINKS

Michelle's website

Michelle's FB Group: The No Diet Sisterhood

Michelle's Instagram

Joyful Movement at Last Program

Your Better Body Image Checklist

Food Psych Podcast

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