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b"David Bedrick is a psychological activist - an ally to the unheard and marginalized voices inside individuals and the culture at large.\\nJoin Traci as she discusses body image, body-shame and diet culture with David, which is also the subject of David\\u2019s book: You can\\u2019t judge a Body by its Cover: 17 Women\\u2019s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption.\\n\\xa0\\nEpisode Timeline\\n[00:09] Intro\\xa0\\n[0:58] Meet David\\n[2:39] How David (a white man from New York) came to write a book about women\\u2019s bodies\\n[9:33] How David\\u2019s longing to be witnessed led to him become a witness to others\\n[13:42] Psychological Activism\\n[14:48] What\\u2019s cooking?\\n[29:40] The inner paradox of diet culture\\n[38:12] How you can find David\\n[41:43] David\\u2019s message to the Sidewalk Talk volunteers\\n[43:06] Closing\\n[43:32] Outro\\n\\xa0\\nResources Mentioned\\nYou can\\u2019t judge a Body by its Cover: 17 Women\\u2019s Stories of Hunger, Body Shame, and Redemption (David\\u2019s book)\\n\\xa0\\nStandout Quotes\\n\\u201cThe idea of having a witness to somebody else's suffering my own and other people's bodies and difficulties became a very important thing to me.\\u201d (David)\\n\\u201cSo my fascination or hunger to learn from other people was really important to me.\\u201d (David)\\n\\u201cThe word that's just coming into the foreground is this deep longing that you had to be witnessed, that you've now been transmuted into as the witnesser.\\u201d (Traci)\\n\\u201cWhat happens if I'm not seen or I'm looked at as a problem and not as a source of brilliance or beauty or creativity?\\u201d (David)\\n\\u201cAre you trying to make everyone a sliced piece of really boring American cheese where we're all plasticy wrapped up in that cellophane wrapper so that we're convenient and we go back to work and we're not a pain in the ass?\\u201d (Traci)\\n\\u201cAnd what I hear you advocating for is the beauty, the wisdom, the complexity, the nuance, the multigenerational story that a soul holds, and the fixed idea of psychology sometimes doesn't do a very good job of gestating.\\u201d (Traci)\\n\\u201cResearch says 98% of women have violent voices in their head every day about their bodies. And it's not minor violent. Not like that doesn't look good on you. I'm not talking about that. I would repeat them, but then we'd have to slow down and hear them because they're so gross.\\u201d (David)\\n\\u201cOh, my god. So what if what if all of us women are going on diets and choosing to fail the diets because it's the actual way that we're trying to rise up against patriarchy to say fuck you to the diet.\\u201d (Traci)\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nConnect:\\nFind | Sidewalk Talk\\xa0\\nAt sidewalk-talk.org\\nOn Instagram: @sidewalktalkorg\\nOn Twitter: @sidewalktalkorg\\n\\xa0\\nFind | Traci Ruble\\nAt Traciruble.com\\nOn Instagram: @TraciRubleMFT\\nOn Twitter: @TraciRubleMFT\\nOn Facebook: @TraciRubleMFT\\n\\xa0\\nFind | David Bedrick\\nAt www.davidbedrick.com\\nIn Two Deep (David\\u2019s podcast): https://www.intwodeep.com/\\n\\xa0\\nSUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST\\nOn Apple Podcasts\\nOn Google Podcasts\\nOn Spotify\\nOn YouTube"