Katie Crenshaw joins us to talk about Body neutrality and ways to talk with our kids about having a healthy body image. Katie is the Mother of three and has a great message for post partum Mother’s who are questioning how their body is “supposed” to look and a message for the parent trying to create a healthy environment around the topic of body image in their home.
I am grateful for Katie’s leadership on this topic and hope that you get as much out of this episode as I do.
What we talked about:
3:50- Introduction to Katie Crenshaw and her parenting journey
5:45- Her recent blog post about life during the pandemic and realizing how so much of her happiness is tied to her productivity
8:00- How she has accepted that she doesn’t find her full identity in motherhood and how that lead her to starting her blog
10:55- How she started Her Body Can and what lead her to becoming so passionate about body positivity
17:10- Teaching young boys and girls to have body positivity for themselves and respecting other bodies
23:20- Teaching people to love bigger bodies and love all bodies
25:15- Modeling good body image and accepting your body as a parent
27:50- Her philosophy around food and meals with her kids
30:55- The Her Body Can book
33:45- Running the New York City Marathon and the story of why she did it
42:00- Messages to moms about their bodies changing after having kids
44:30- What she wants her kids to remember about her as a mom and the messages that she taught them
45:20- End of podcast questions
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