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How often do you find yourself relating to your body as a physical being rather than a physical object? Celebrating what it can do for you instead of fixating on how it looks in the mirror? If you\u2019re like most people, not often! All too often we find ourselves comparing how our body looks to narrowly-defined cultural ideals that are unhealthy, unsustainable, and just plain inaccessible!\xa0\n\n\n\nIn this episode, Dr. Jennifer Webb, associate professor at UNC Charlotte, and Yael discuss strategies for responding to the cultural messages that we receive in ways that cultivate body kindness and inclusivity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nListen and Learn:\n\n\n\nHow looking at our body as process is more useful than looking at our body as an objectHow body shaming de-motivates healthy behaviors\xa0How to integrate an acceptance and commitment therapy take on \u201cbody flexibility\u201dSpecific practices to cultivate body flexibility and kindness\n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Webb:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Webb, Ph.D., is a clinical health psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Webb is also the Director of the MIND-BATCH Lab at UNC Charlotte, which is dedicated to furthering research about positive psychology, mindfulness, body acceptance, culture, and health. Her research is informed by multiculturally inclusive values and Dr. Webb is specifically interested in the experience of young ethnic minority women as well as the effects of weight-related body shaming and the mind-body connection on appetite, metabolism, and weight. Dr. Webb received her bachelor\u2019s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Southern California.\n\n\n\nResources:\n\n\n\nTo learn more about Jennifer\u2019s research, follow these links:\n\n\n\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer_Webb2https://www.researchgate.net/lab/MIND-BATCH-Lab-Jennifer-B-WebbRealizing Yoga\u2019s All-Access Pass: A Social Justice Critique of Westernized Yoga and Inclusive MovementIs \u201cYoga Bod\u201d the New Skinny?: A Comparative Content Analysis of Mainstream of Yoga Lifestyle Magazine CoversThe interview with Jennifer on the Body Kindness podcast\n\n\n\nTo learn more about yoga inclusivity resources, check out the following:\n\n\n\nYoga and Body Image CoalitionAccessible YogaDecolonizing YogaBody Positive YogaCurvy YogaJessamyn StanleyDianne BondyYes! Yoga Has Curves\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices