Summer returns for her second (!!) time on the pod to speak with Abbie about the challenges of body image during perimenopause. With the ever-present pressure from diet culture -- preying on our insecurities, selling us anti-aging creams, 'fixes' for menopause symptoms, and endless diets to keep our bodies as small as possible -- it’s exhausting. This conversation takes a deeper look at what's happening as we age out of the beauty standard, the challenges we face with body grief, and how we can truly support ourselves and our changing bodies.

We chat about so much in this one, including...

• What's happening to the body in perimenopause
• Why body image can worsen in midlife
• Navigating physical and hormonal changes
• Experiencing body grief as we age
• The effects of psychosocial and life stressors on body image
• How diet culture targets women in midlife
• Marginalized identities and aging
• Social comparison and anti-aging culture
• Managing social media around diet culture and aging
• Taking a compassionate approach to aging
• How to challenge our negative beliefs about getting older

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence. She is the host of the podcast Eat The Rules and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program with Danni Adams to train professionals to be better equipped to work with clients around body image. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com.

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