The Body Trust® Podcast

45. Survivorship and Body Trust With Christina Borel

CW: Sexual violence and trafficking. This episode includes discussion of sexual violence, including human trafficking. Please take gentle care of yourself if you choose to listen - we care about you and how this may impact you. On this episode of The Body Trust Podcast Hilary and Sirius invite Body Trust provider and therapist Christina Burrell to discuss survivorship. Christina discusses dissociation, compartmentalization, bodily autonomy, and the cultural context of Me Too. Christina describes running a small Body Trust foundations group for queer survivors and emphasizes explicit, consistent invitations that communicate “all of you is welcome here,” noting healing cannot be thought through alone and must connect to collective movement toward “the horizon of love.” 01:28 Christina’s Body Trust journey 06:59 Defining Survivorship 09:23 Reorienting Healing 12:27 Compartmentalization and Safety 17:49 Me Too and Visibility 19:25 From Rage to Action 32:07 From Individual to Collective Change 39:15 How to Support Survivors RESOURCES The Foundations of Body Trust [https://centerforbodytrust.com/foundations-of-body-trust/] : The Body Trust Framework [https://centerforbodytrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Body-Trust-Phases-Roots-with-Book.pdf] Reclaiming Body Trust:A Path to Liberation and Healing [https://share.google/LXKAPh7sSta3vqzrO] by Kinavey & Sturtevant Me, Too International [https://metoomvmt.org/] Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the birth of the Me, Too Movement [https://powells.com/book/unbound-my-story-of-liberation-and-the-birth-of-the-me-too-movement-9781250621733] by Tarana Burke Survivor Power with Tarana Burke [https://becomingthepeople.buzzsprout.com/1108100/episodes/18653975-survivor-power-with-tarana-burke] on Becoming the People Podcast with Prentis Hemphill adrienne marry brown and Sonya Renee Taylor on survivorship in these times [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVM2fmCAVZt/?igsh=c2Q5Mmd6Mm16aDls]Freedom & Desire Substack [https://freedomanddesire.substack.com/] by Sirius Bonner CHRISTINA BOREL Email: christina@kaleidoscope-growth.com Instagram: @kaleidoscopegrowth [https://www.instagram.com/kaleidoscopegrowth/]ANCHORING: Body Trust Practices for Survivors [https://www.kaleidoscope-growth.com/programs]www.kaleidoscope-growth.com [http://www.kaleidoscope-growth.com/] Are you tired of “weighting” to live your life? Our beloved No More Weighting program is a self-paced e-course to introduce you to Body Trust. It is available for purchase now! Learn more here. [https://centerforbodytrust.com/no-more-weighting/] Looking for Body Trust training? Our Groundwork training starts the day you purchase it. Learn more here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/groundwork/]. For more on all of our offerings, click here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/offerings]. Send us your thoughts/questions [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIvqTFZEaupuxZ0WJQZFsrdEy9lwbL_bkAI3E9F6dpMls5rg/viewform]. Produced by Wowow Podcasts [https://www.wowowpodcasts.com/]

44. Ethical Care Guidelines for GLP-1s: Body Autonomy, Informed Consent, and Anti-Fat Bias

On this episode of The Body Trust Podcast, Hilary, Sirius and Dana discuss the intentions behind their free ethical care guidelines for GLP-1 medications. They critique weight-centric healthcare, industry-influenced research, and an “ethics” focus limited to rationing and allocation rather than relational care, informed consent, and “do no harm.” Centering body autonomy, they stress that true consent requires unbiased information and freedom from coercion, including weight stigma and medical gaslighting. They highlight risks such as deaths, weight cycling, and inadequate eating-disorder screening, including concerns about people developing or worsening eating disorders on GLP-1s. They describe practical elements of weight-inclusive care, identify clinical red flags, and encourage patients and providers to use the guidelines to ask better questions while recognizing systemic anti-fat bias cannot be solved by individual weight loss. RESOURCES Ethical Care Guidelines for GLP1 Medications [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-9-VRDNNuSQwvCh-rs2hXmDlVkWc0rrSn0aokjMLns/edit?usp=sharing] by Center for Body Trust Freedom & Desire Substack [https://freedomanddesire.substack.com/] by Sirius Bonner Coaching with Meg Bradbury [https://centerforbodytrust.com/meg-bradbury/] Certified Body Trust Provider Directory [https://centerforbodytrust.com/body-trust-professional-network/] Are you tired of “weighting” to live your life? Our beloved No More Weighting program is a self-paced e-course to introduce you to Body Trust. It is available for purchase now! Learn more here. [https://centerforbodytrust.com/no-more-weighting/] Looking for Body Trust training? Our Groundwork training starts the day you purchase it. Learn more here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/groundwork/]. For more on all of our offerings, click here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/offerings]. Send us your thoughts/questions [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIvqTFZEaupuxZ0WJQZFsrdEy9lwbL_bkAI3E9F6dpMls5rg/viewform]. CONNECT WITH US Support The Podcast [https://centerforbodytrust.com/product/podcast] Newsletter [https://centerforbodytrust.com/newsletters] Facebook [https://facebook.com/CenterForBodyTrust] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-body-trust] Website [https://centerforbodytrust.com] Produced by Wowow Podcasts [https://www.wowowpodcasts.com/]

43. Orthorexia, “Clean Eating,” and the Wellness-to-White Nationalism Pipeline (with Meg Bradbury)

On this episode Hilary, Sirius and Dana welcome Center for Body Trust program coordinator and coach Meg Bradbury to discuss orthorexia. Meg shares  their background and describes growing up with body shaming, prior eating disorder histories, and how “healthy eating” escalated into orthorexia. The hosts unpack the overlap orthorexia has with influencer culture, toxic masculinity, and white-supremacist-coded “purity” narratives, and warn about restrictive medical/naturopathic food advice. Meg underscores the importance of recovery support by way of community, patience and non-linear healing. 02:52 Meg discussing their journey to Body Trust 11:10 Meg shares how their Orthorexia developed and escalates 31:43 The impact of Influencers and Wellness Culture on orthorexia 41:38 Medical Nuance and Restriction Risks 44:37 ED Risks Beyond Size 45:51 Food Advice and Performative Health 01:06:48 MAHA and co-opting body liberation language 01:08:41 How To Start Healing RESOURCES How White Nationalists Infiltrated the Wellness Movement [https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2025/2/2/how-white-nationalists-infiltrated-the-wellness-movement] Orthorexia & Diet Culture in the Family [https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/7/orthorexia-and-diet-culture-in-the-family-with-meg-bradbury-daughter-carson] (Meg with her daughter Carson) Healthism: The Desire to be Healthy Gone Wrong [https://www.stephaniedodier.com/episodes/227-healthism-the-desire-to-be-healthy-gone-wrong-with-dana-sturtevant/] Coaching with Meg Bradbury [https://centerforbodytrust.com/meg-bradbury/] Certified Body Trust Provider Directory [https://centerforbodytrust.com/body-trust-professional-network/] Are you tired of “weighting” to live your life? Our beloved No More Weighting program is a self-paced e-course to introduce you to Body Trust. It is available for purchase now! Learn more here. [https://centerforbodytrust.com/no-more-weighting/] Looking for Body Trust training? Our Groundwork training starts the day you purchase it. Learn more here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/groundwork/]. For more on all of our offerings, click here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/offerings]. Send us your thoughts/questions [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIvqTFZEaupuxZ0WJQZFsrdEy9lwbL_bkAI3E9F6dpMls5rg/viewform]. CONNECT WITH US Support The Podcast [https://centerforbodytrust.com/product/podcast] Newsletter [https://centerforbodytrust.com/newsletters] Facebook [https://facebook.com/CenterForBodyTrust] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-body-trust] Website [https://centerforbodytrust.com] Produced by Wowow Podcasts [https://www.wowowpodcasts.com/]

42. Ragen Chastain on GLP-1s, Weight Science, and Ethical Informed Consent

Hosts Dana, Sirius, and Hilary welcome fat activist and researcher Ragen Chastain, author of the Weight and Healthcare Substack and founder of the Dances With Fat blog onto the podcast. Ragen discusses her entry into fat civil rights and healthcare advocacy and describes focusing her work on intersections of weight science, weight stigma, and healthcare practice, arguing that the weight-loss industry and drug companies manipulate healthcare and media with “science” marketing. She outlines how she evaluates studies (funding, conflicts of interest, methodology, dosing, outcomes, and comparisons to existing treatments), critiques GLP-1 claims and secondary-indication narratives, and emphasizes bodily autonomy, collective harm from anti-fat bias, and the necessity of ethical informed consent, including risks, limited long-term outcomes, and denial-of-care pressures. 05:14 Ragen's personal experience with anti-fat bias  12:09 The GLP-1 Marketing Machine 24:58 The connection between Fen-phen, Purdue and Novo Nordisk 37:15 Ethical Informed Consent 38:38 Why Fatphobia Persists and the diet industry co-opting fat liberation language 58:36  Autonomy, Accountability and Responsibility within Celebrity and Influencer culture 01:06:33 Medical ethics, Informed Consent and Patient Coercion RESOURCES Weight & Healthcare Substack Newsletter [https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/] by Ragen Chastain Prediabetes: Dubious Diagnosis [https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.363.6431.1026]Novo Nordisk Report: Building the Market from Scratch [https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive/n/NYSE_NVO_2015.PDF] (see page 30)  Are you tired of “weighting” to live your life? Our beloved No More Weighting program is a self-paced e-course to introduce you to Body Trust. It is available for purchase now! Learn more here. [https://centerforbodytrust.com/no-more-weighting/] Looking for Body Trust training? Our Groundwork training starts the day you purchase it. Learn more here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/groundwork/]. For more on all of our offerings, click here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/offerings]. Send us your thoughts/questions [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIvqTFZEaupuxZ0WJQZFsrdEy9lwbL_bkAI3E9F6dpMls5rg/viewform]. CONNECT WITH US Support The Podcast [https://centerforbodytrust.com/product/podcast] Newsletter [https://centerforbodytrust.com/newsletters] Facebook [https://facebook.com/CenterForBodyTrust] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-body-trust] TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@body.trust] Website [https://centerforbodytrust.com] Produced by Wowow Podcasts [https://www.wowowpodcasts.com/]

41. From Super Bowl GLP-1 Ads to Ethical Care Guidelines: Body Trust on Media, Weight Stigma, and Power

On this episode hosts Dana, Sirius, and Hilary discuss GLP-1s, and how they’re showing up in pop culture and politics. They unpack the Super Bowl ads and awkward displays of male power in the media. They critique a New York Times opinion piece about “leaving body positivity” and use it as a jumping off point to discuss the importance of using an intersectional lens to approach body trust. They discuss the rise in GLP-1 related deaths and incidences of scurvy, and announce the release of their ethical care guidelines for folks using GLP-1s. 00:46 Pop culture round up: the Super Bowl  17:43 Health Nuance And Backlash 21:45 Political Roots Missing in Body Positivity  28:41 Fat loss does not eradicate oppression 32:53 FDA Warnings And Deaths 55:57 Iran And War Distractions 01:01:23 Introducing our ethical care guidelines RESOURCES Ethical Care Guidelines for GLP1 Medications [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-9-VRDNNuSQwvCh-rs2hXmDlVkWc0rrSn0aokjMLns/edit?usp=sharing] by Center for Body Trust Instagram Post with Band Names for Junior and Kid Rock [https://www.instagram.com/p/DU7dWcLDvn6/] The Split Inside Body Positivity Boils Down to This One Thing [https://www.forbes.com/sites/virgietovar/2026/02/22/the-split-inside-body-positivity-boils-down-to-this-one-thing/] Ethical Care Guidelines and Secondary Uses of GLP-1 Medications [https://centerforbodytrust.com/glp-1-webinar/] Beyond Body Positivity [https://centerforbodytrust.com/fat-at-intersections/] Looking for an intro class to Body Trust? Our newly revamped No More Weighting self-paced e-course is available for purchase now! Learn more here. [https://centerforbodytrust.com/no-more-weighting/] For more on all of our offerings, click here [https://centerforbodytrust.com/offerings]. Send us your thoughts/questions [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIvqTFZEaupuxZ0WJQZFsrdEy9lwbL_bkAI3E9F6dpMls5rg/viewform]. CONNECT WITH US Support The Podcast [https://centerforbodytrust.com/product/podcast] Newsletter [https://centerforbodytrust.com/newsletters] Facebook [https://facebook.com/CenterForBodyTrust] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/center4bodytrust] LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-body-trust] TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@body.trust] Website [https://centerforbodytrust.com] Produced by Wowow Podcasts [https://www.wowowpodcasts.com/]