The Body Trust® Podcast

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57. GLP-1s for Children and the Risks of Weight-Focused Pediatrician

2026-11-0340:00

On this episode of The Body Trust podcast, Hilary, Dana, and Sirius discuss the prescription of GLP-1s for adolescents. They debrief their recent “GLP-1s and kids” webinar (available on their website) and discuss the poor understanding of puberty, development, and eating disorders. They contrast the American Academy of Pediatrics’ support for GLP-1s for ages 12+ with the WHO’s decision not to recommend them for children, while noting WHO still promotes weight-pathologizing lifestyle intervent...

56. The future of Center for Body Trust

2026-10-2035:45

On this episode Sirius, Dana, and Hilary share some exciting news about the future of Center for Body Trust. They discuss the current political and cultural moment, including the marketing and expanding use of GLP-1 medications to include pediatrics. They announce certification will reopen, with a refreshed approach aimed at helping practitioners develop nuanced, practical tools for today’s context, and preview an upcoming workshop on ethical guidelines and applying Body Trust as a decision-m...

55. What Does It Really Mean to Be Embodied?

2026-10-0657:27

On this episode Hilary, Dana, and Sirius discuss what it really means to be “embodied,” aiming to rescue the term from being used as a prescriptive “should”. They frame embodiment as a quality of presence and a spectrum of positive to negative experiences, not a 24/7 state, and connect disembodiment to dominant culture, control, and mistrust of bodily knowing, including diet culture and objectification. Drawing on Niva Piran’s research, they outline five dimensions of embodiment, highlighting...

54. Dietician Anna Sweeney on Chronic Illness, Body Grief, and Resisting Wellness Grifts

2026-09-2201:15:38

Dana, Hilary, and Sirius are joined by eating disorder dietitian Anna Sweeney (Dietitian Anna) to discuss chronic illness, eating disorders and wellness grifters. Anna shares her path into dietetics, and the professional unlearning and repair involved in her work. The conversation explores body grief, disability and ableism and feeling betrayed by the body. Anna critiques wellness grifters, “root cause” marketing, anti-inflammatory cure diets, and current GLP-1 weight-loss culture, linking th...

53. Back From Sabbatical: Fat Liberation Month, GLP-1 Ethics, and What’s Coming This Fall

2026-09-0855:06

Dana, Sirius, and Hilary return from their sabbatical to share personal updates—creative projects and rest, a major home remodel, travel to Minneapolis and San Francisco, and reflections on making space to think. In Fat Liberation Month, They discuss Fat Liberation Month, fat joy and discrimination, the cultural normalization of extreme thinness and disordered eating, and the debate about commenting on people’s bodies; emphasizing nuance, context, and the harms of casual “Ozempic” language as...

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