56: Scripts For Responding To Unsolicited Comments About Your Body with Summer Innanen
We’ve all been in the situation where someone has said things like “you look tired” or “you look too thin – you need to eat something” or “have you lost weight? you look so good!” or the best of all, “are you pregnant?”. While most people mean well and don’t have any malicious intent by saying any of these things, the reality is that words are powerful and when such things are said without knowing exactly where the person on the receiving end is at, it has the potential to be harmful and damaging. In many cases, these words leave a lasting effect that end up acting like a catalyst years worth of disordered eating habits.
Here to bring a humourous and sarcastic spin on how we can respond to such comments productively is Summer Innanen – a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, body positivity and confidence. Summer works with women all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnnane.com.
She is the Host of Fearless Rebelle Radio, a podcast dedicated to empowering women to live life on their own terms; the best-selling author of Body Image Remix; and creator of the flagship You, On Fire – a 3 month online program dedicated to helping women break out of the diet culture cage and accept their bodies so they can live their badass lives to the fullest.
In this episode we discuss:
Summer’s disordered eating journey
How disordered eating habits can often be disguised as “health habits”
The key things to explore when healing body image
Why positive body image has nothing to do with actually feeling beautiful
People’s comments and how they say more about the person saying them rather than the person they’re making the comment to
How you response should be tweaked based on the person making the comment
Being mindful as the deliveree of comments and the receiver
What to say in response to someone making a comment about:
Looking tired
Being too thin
Praise around weight loss
Reaching for a second helping at dinner
Being pregnant
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