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Mind the Body is a podcast about the space between how we think, feel, and live in our bodies — and how trauma, culture, and relationships shape the way we experience the world.
Hosted by psychodynamic psychotherapist and EMDR therapist Yvette Vuaran, the show unpacks how the body remembers, how the mind protects, and how understanding that connection can change the way we live and love.
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🎧 Episode 10: Pretty Hurts – What Cosmetic Surgery Tells Us About Childhood Trauma What drives the desire to change the body, and why can it feel so urgent? In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore the link between cosmetic surgery, childhood trauma, and body image. While cultural pressures like beauty standards and social media are real, research suggests something deeper may also be at work. A 2024 study found that women seeking cosmetic procedures reported significantly higher levels of...
🎧 Episode 9: The Virtual Body: Gaming, Chronic Illness & Escape When the body becomes a source of pain, unpredictability, or shame - where does the self go? In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore gaming, chronic illness, and body image, and why virtual worlds can feel like relief when the body feels difficult to live in. For some, the virtual body offers a return to a self interrupted by chronic illness - something echoed in Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorro...
🎧 Episode 8: The Body as Stage - Chronic Illness, Body Image & Body Grief What happens when your body changes in ways you didn’t choose, and you no longer recognise yourself within it? Over the past seven episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, trauma, attachment, and neurodiversity. In this episode, we turn toward chronic illness and the psychological rupture that can occur when the body itself becomes unfamiliar, unpredictable, or altered. Drawing on psychoanalytic...
🎧 Episode 7: Why Your Body Feels Different: Neurodiversity, Sensory Overload & Belonging Over the past six episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, trauma, and attachment. In this episode, we explore the missing piece: neurodiversity and how differences in sensory processing, interoception, and regulation shape how the body actually feels, not just how it is perceived. Drawing on the work of neuroscientist Mark Solms, Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, Damian Milton’s ...
🎧 Episode 6: Bridget Jones - Attachment, Body Image, and the Anxious–Avoidant Pattern Over the past five episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, early relationships, trauma, and attachment. In this episode, we use the character of Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones’s Diary as a lens to explore these patterns. While often framed as romantic comedy, Bridget’s struggles with body image, insecurity, and emotionally unavailable partners reflect deeper attachment patterns. Drawi...
🎧 Episode 5: The “Revenge Body” - What We’re Really Trying to Fix After Heartbreak Over the past four episodes, we’ve explored body image as shaped by culture, attachment, and trauma. In this episode, we bring those threads together through a culturally familiar phenomenon: the “revenge body.” The post-breakup transformation. The intense focus on changing your body after heartbreak. The belief that if you look different, you’ll feel different. But what is the revenge body really about? In thi...
🎧 Episode 4: Building Secure Attachments - How Attachment Styles Shape Body Image and Relationships Over the past three episodes, we’ve explored body image as something shaped by culture, early experiences, and trauma. In this episode, we turn to attachment. Attachment is formed through the body - through early experiences of being held, soothed, mirrored, and responded to. These early relational patterns shape not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to ourselves. Including our bo...
🎧 Episode 3: Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Body Image Over the past two episodes, we’ve explored body image as a language - shaped by culture, attachment, and relationship. In this episode, we turn directly toward trauma. What if body hatred isn’t superficial - but protective? What if the way you relate to your body makes perfect sense given what you’ve experienced? This episode traces the powerful and often unspoken link between trauma and body image - and why traditional approaches...
🎧 Episode 2: Body Image in Love Where does body image really begin - and why does it show up so powerfully in our intimate relationships? In this episode of Mind the Body, I examine how body image struggles are shaped long before adulthood - through cultural messaging, early attachment relationships, and experiences that disrupt safety in the body. While body dissatisfaction often appears to be about appearance, this episode looks beneath the surface - at how relational pain, insecurity, and ...
🎧 Episode 1: Your Body Image Isn’t About Your Body - It’s a Language Welcome to the first episode of Mind The Body. I’m your host, Yvette Vuaran, psychodynamic psychotherapist and EMDR therapist specialising in body image, attachment, and trauma. In this episode, I explore why body image struggles are rarely about appearance. Instead, they often reflect early relationships, unprocessed trauma, and the ways we learned to disconnect from ourselves in order to feel safe and accepted. Rather than...
If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your body — unsure how to bridge the gap between what you think and what you feel — this podcast is for you. Hosted by psychodynamic psychotherapist and EMDR therapist Yvette Vuaran, Mind the Body explores how trauma, body image, and relationships shape our sense of self — and how healing the divide between mind and body helps us feel more at home within ourselves. Together, we’ll explore how the body remembers, how the mind protects, and how understand...
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