49 min
A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Oppression Go Down with Lindo Bacon, PhD Recovery Bites
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- Mental Health
In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Lindo Bacon, a researcher, and former professor, having taught courses in social justice, health, weight, and nutrition for nearly two decades. Bacon holds a PhD in physiology with a specialty in nutrition, and Masters degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, their clinical expertise, and their personal experience to write two bestselling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight, both of which are credited with transforming the weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the global body positivity movement. In their forthcoming book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better), Bacon takes their inspiring message beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity, and true belonging. A compelling speaker and storyteller, Bacon delivers a unique blend of academic expertise, clinical experience, and social justice advocacy, all couched in raw honesty and compassion that touch and inspire.
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
• The dangers of government and healthcare professionals using weight stigma for health promotion.
• Weight stigma is one of many body-based oppressions.
• The problem is in injustice, not individuals.
• Alienation from one’s body isn’t a result of personal failing; it’s a result of culture failing people.
• For marginalized people, a focus on self-love can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down.
• The “school to prison pipeline” theory.
• Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
• What happens when we try to fit into the expectations that society thrusts on us.
• The challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love and into belonging.
• The beauty of connection, community, belonging, and truly “seeing” on another allows self-love to carry us to healing.
• The belief that recovery is accepting humanity and taking care of yourself in it.
• Lindo's experience writing "Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better)."
In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Lindo Bacon, a researcher, and former professor, having taught courses in social justice, health, weight, and nutrition for nearly two decades. Bacon holds a PhD in physiology with a specialty in nutrition, and Masters degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, their clinical expertise, and their personal experience to write two bestselling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight, both of which are credited with transforming the weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the global body positivity movement. In their forthcoming book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better), Bacon takes their inspiring message beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity, and true belonging. A compelling speaker and storyteller, Bacon delivers a unique blend of academic expertise, clinical experience, and social justice advocacy, all couched in raw honesty and compassion that touch and inspire.
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
• The dangers of government and healthcare professionals using weight stigma for health promotion.
• Weight stigma is one of many body-based oppressions.
• The problem is in injustice, not individuals.
• Alienation from one’s body isn’t a result of personal failing; it’s a result of culture failing people.
• For marginalized people, a focus on self-love can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down.
• The “school to prison pipeline” theory.
• Being “othered” and the body shame it spurs is not “just” a feeling.
• What happens when we try to fit into the expectations that society thrusts on us.
• The challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love and into belonging.
• The beauty of connection, community, belonging, and truly “seeing” on another allows self-love to carry us to healing.
• The belief that recovery is accepting humanity and taking care of yourself in it.
• Lindo's experience writing "Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better)."
49 min