Body Cons

How to raise intuitive eaters - we speak to anti-diet nutritionist Laura Thomas PhD about how to raise children who have a healthy relationship with food and positive body image.

What's confidence and is it something you can learn? What's the link between confidence, self-esteem and mental health, and how we can give ourselves a boost if things aren't feeling that great? We chat to model and mental health advocate Jada Sezer for this episode of Body Cons podcast.

How can we raise body confident boys? What’s masculinity look like anyway? And why is there still so much stigma around guys talking about their feelings? We discuss all this and more in the latest episode of Body Cons. This week’s guests are models and body confidence advocates Ben Whit and Dan Richards, who also starred as two of the ...

An introduction to Intuitive Exercise, an anti-diet culture movement, with an interview with Tally Rye.

To celebrate the end of Mental Health Awareness Week, on Saturday 18th May we hosted a very special day of workshops, talks, a live podcast and a nude photoshoot experience for mums in our very first Body Cons “Body Love” event. It was an empowering, inspiring and uplifting day, with tears, laughter and some beautiful images captured by the incredible ...

Happy Mental Health Awareness Week! We’ve got a really special episode for you this week as not only is it MHAW 2019, which focuses on body image this year, but it’s also the final episode in the first season of Body Cons. This week we’re looking at the term “Fatphobia” and learning what it means both for ourselves as individuals ...

What if you want to feel good about your body but you’re just not there yet? Is self-love just another thing to fail at? If we’ve tried liking ourselves as we are, is the only other option to change our body? In this episode we explore the idea of body confidence and how we can achieve peace with our body ...

Why does kindness matter? What’s the social model of disability? Why is diet culture so dangerous? We discuss all this and more in this episode on radical body politics with the iconic Imogen Fox. Molly and Lottie also discuss this week’s Going UP / DOWN and take an in-depth look at the Beyoncé Homecoming film on Netflix – there is ...

Why is it that you can be one size in one shop and a completely different size in the shop next door? Why don’t more shops stock a wider variety of sizes? What needs to be done to make fashion a truly inclusive space, so we can all enjoy it regardless of body shape? And what’s the trick to feeling ...

Does fitness look one way? How can we enjoy moving our body if we don't feel like we fit the "fitness look"? What's the relationship between body image and exercise? All this and more is discussed in Episode 6 of Body Cons.

How does how you feel in your body affect your intimate relationships? If you’re not feeling great, how can you feel better? And as parents, how much should we be telling our kids when it comes to this stuff? We discuss all this and more in this week’s episode of Body Cons. Featuring the usual Going UP / Going DOWN ...

How does social media make us feel about our bodies? Is the “Instagram effect” a positive or negative one? How can we make sure social media is a force for good when it comes to body image? We discuss all this and more in episode 4 of Body Cons. With the regular “Going up / Going down” feature, Molly and ...

Is there such a thing as the “perfect” baby bump? What happens if we’re told our bump is “too big” or “too small”? And what’s the secret to feeling good in our skin in that vulnerable newborn phase, when we’re often bombarded with messages about “snapping back”? All this and more is covered in the third episode of Body Cons, ...

What's diet culture anyway, and why is it so damaging? Is there an alternative to diets if we want to find another way? And what's the best documentary on Amazon Prime at the moment?! We cover all of this and more in our second episode of Season One of Body Cons.

What's the secret to feeling good about your body? Why is body image such an important subject anyway? And what's the most joyous body positive pop song around at the moment? We cover all of this and more in this, the first ever episode of Body Cons.

Welcome to Body Cons, a brand new podcast offering a collection of conversations about bodies.