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Body Cons

A collection of conversations about bodies

Molly Forbes & Lottie Storey

Hello! Molly and Lottie are back with a bonus chatty episode, and updates about some of the things that have happened in the past year. Expect deep talks, funny nonsense, plenty of body image and mental health exploration and lots of nuance to make you think. Useful stuff: Base Camp Therapy: https://basecampchepstow.weebly.com/ Pre-order Molly’s book, Body Happy Kids: https://smarturl.it/bodyhappykids Molly’s ...

Body Cons CHATS: Embodiment, Cold Water Swimming, Books & Outrage Culture

Hello! Welcome to a bonus episode of Body Cons. If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this episode sounds a little different. This is because we’ve been making the podcast remotely while it’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations. Hopefully you’ll forgive the less than perfect sound quality of ...

BONUS EPISODE: Everyday Lookism with Professor Heather Widdows

Hello! Welcome back to this emergency series of Body Cons. If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but ...

EMERGENCY SERIES, EPISODE 6: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and hopes after lockdown, with Franky Shanahan from Love Audrey

EMERGENCY SERIES, EPISODE 5: How to stay zen in a lockdown, with Aisha Carrington

Welcome back to this emergency series of Body Cons! If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because we’re each recording the interviews separately and making the podcast remotely. It’s not possible to travel the country together to have these conversations around people’s kitchen tables, but hopefully ...

EMERGENCY SERIES, EPISODE 4: Young people, body image and mental health in a pandemic with Caoimhe Green and Tanisha Barrett from OTR

Welcome back to another emergency episode of Body Cons! We’re here to help you navigate diet culture, the changing food landscape, anxiety and all the other things that may be triggering bad body image during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve listened to our previous two series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is ...

EMERGENCY SERIES, EPISODE 3: Self-love during lockdown with Sylvia Mac from Love Disfigure

Hello! We are back for an emergency series of Body Cons to help you navigate diet culture, the changing food landscape, anxiety and all the other things that may be triggering bad body image during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve listened to our previous series of Body Cons you might notice this one sounds a little different. This is because ...

EMERGENCY SERIES, EPISODE 2: Staying positive in a pandemic with Becky Amoi Young from Anti Diet Riot Club

Hello! We are back for an emergency series of Body Cons to help you navigate diet culture, the changing food landscape, anxiety and all the other things that may be triggering bad body image during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each episode has been recorded remotely so please excuse the less than perfect sound quality. Today we discuss coping with the changing ...

EMERGENCY SERIES, EPISODE 1: Coping with the food landscape during a pandemic, with Hope Virgo

Consider this your antidote to Christmas diet culture! We’ve brought together some of our stand-out moments from the past two series of Body Cons to create a bumper Christmas special. Best listened to while enjoying a mince pie (or 15). We’ll be back with more body love goodness and amazing guests in 2020 but in the meantime, merry Christmas and ...

Christmas Special: The Body Cons Big Fat Pod of the Year 2019

What's the link between sex and mental health? Why is sex still a taboo subject in so many circles? What does it mean to be "sex positive"? What's non-monogamy and why do we even need to know? We discuss all this and more in this special final episode of the second season of Body Cons, with sex educator, artist and body positive crusader Ruby Rare.

Episode 15, Season 2: Sex Positivity 101 with Ruby Rare

Magazines often get the blame for making women feel insecure, promoting unrealistic body types and narrow beauty ideals, and not being inclusive in the bodies they present in their pages. But what's it really like in 2019? And what's it like to actually work on a high end fashion magazine?

Terri Waters is a fashion journalist who worked at multiple glossy magazines, before leaving the industry to set up independent body-positive publication The Unedit.

Episode 14, Season 2: The truth about magazines, with Terri Waters from The Unedit

Natalie Ambersley was diagnosed with the Vitiligo skin condition at two years old. In this episode of Body Cons we discover how she turned her self-hate and shame around the condition into one of self-love and acceptance, becoming an ambassador for Vitiligo and helping others reach a state of peace with their diagnosis.

Episode 13, Season 2: Life with Vitiligo, with Natalie Ambersley

‘The media’ is a catch-all term often blamed for the high beauty standards to which we hold women accountable, so what do two telly execs have to say on the subject?  Plenty, as it happens. In this episode of Body Cons we speak with Rosie Bray and Lucy Golding, the two execs behind Barefaced TV, which made Channel 4’s Naked ...

Episode 12, Season 2: Bodies on TV, with Barefaced TV’s Rosie Bray & Lucy Golding

Find out how self-doubt impacts body image and vice versa, with this deep dive into self-doubt and body image with self-doubt researcher and life coach Sas Petherick.

Episode 11, Season 2: Body image and self-doubt with Sas Petherick

TW: This episode contains some swearing as well as discussions alluding to eating disorders and disordered eating. Welcome to episode 10 of season 2 of Body Cons! In this episode we share what we’ve loved and hated on the subject of body image this week, we chat about Molly’s experience of intuitive movement, share our favourite ever listener email and ...

Episode 10, Season 2: Activism and radical compassion, with Bear

Lauren Mahon chats body image and cancer in this special episode of Body Cons.

Episode 9, Season 2: Body image and cancer, with Lauren Mahon

Want to feel better but not sure where to even begin? This is a must-listen episode of Body Cons with self-love legend Jules Von Hep, sharing practical tips and inspiring ideas on how to empower yourself to start feeling better in the skin you're in.

Episode 8, Season 2: How to love yourself, with Jules Von Hep

Molly Forbes and Lottie Storey are back with the Body Cons podcast after a mid-season break for summer, with a bumper back to school catch-up and special Q&A edition.

Episode 7, Season 2: Back to school Q&A catch-up

What does a "healthy diet" actually look like? We speak to nutrional scientist Toral Shah from The Urban Kitchen in this week's episode of Body Cons.

Episode 6, Season 2: What’s a healthy diet, anyway? With The Urban Kitchen’s Toral Shah

This week’s episode revisits the idea of toxic masculinity and the effect it can have on body image, as we chat to body positive activist, campaigner and influencer Stevie Blaine aka Bopo Boy. It’s a great episode to listen to if you’re a parent to boys, or if you’re looking for ways to get teenagers to engage with the subject ...

Episode 5, Season 2: Toxic Masculinity and body image, with Stevie Blaine aka Bopo Boy

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.

Episode 4, Season 2: Raising Intuitive Eaters, with Laura Thomas

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.

Episode 3, Season 2: Confidence is a trick, with Jada Sezer

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 ...

Episode 2, Season 2: Body Image and Boys, with Dan Richards & Ben Whit from Naked Beach

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

Episode 1, Season 2: An Introduction to Intuitive Exercise, 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 ...

Body Love Event Live Bonus Episode

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 ...

Episode 10: Fatphobia – A Mental Health Awareness Week Special, with Hayley McLean

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 ...

Episode 9: But what if I don’t love my body? With Laura Phelan and Abby Russell

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 ...

Episode 8: Kindness is key – radical body politics, with Imogen Fox

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 ...

Episode 7: Fashion for Everyone, with Niki Groom aka Miss Magpie Spy

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.

Episode 6: Fitspiration – Exercise for all with Women’s Health Digital Ed Amy Lane

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 ...

Episode 5: Let’s talk about sex baby – body image and intimacy, with Lala

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 ...

Episode 4: Instagram vs reality – body image in a social media age, with Emily Fisher

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, ...

Episode 3: Does my bump look big in this? Body image in pregnancy, with Siobhan Miller

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.

Episode 2: Ditching the diets – is there another way? With Laura Thomas PhD

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.

Episode 1: Why we need to talk about body image, with Nadia Craddock

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