It’s Beyond The Food: Non-Diet Health Coaching
Jul 9, 2026 · 47 min · 12 segments
We have a body autonomy problem and a body liberation problem, and they are not the same thing. Abbie Attwood joins me to talk about the conversation everyone is having badly right now. Celebrities…
I, I originally wrote it, I wanna say, like maybe a, a year ago, and it was kind of as a response to at that time when Serena Williams had come out, um, about GLP-1s, and there was a lot of kind of controversy and a lot of opinions about that, and a lot of hot takes, you know.
And I actually ended up having, I think, I think you have a, you have some private group coaching you do, right, Stephanie?
So I have a membership group, and we ended up talking about it and just kind of holding space for all the different feelings that were coming up for people.
And after that conversation, I was just reflecting and wanted to share some thoughts and just about what it means to be living in this moment right now and how different it feels than maybe it has for people in the past because it's nothing new, right? It's nothing new that we're seeing a new style of, um, you know, a new popular weight loss technique, right? It's, it's nothing new.
It feels more present, both because of just the accessibility of, um, you know, that social media offers and the media at large and celebrity culture and kind of the parasocial relationships that we form.
And then just how loud the marketing is right now around GLP-1s, which I personally do think is a really huge issue.
The marketing of these medications has become just really dangerous territory for a lot of people, you know? And so I think it's just louder and more pervasive than it has been fr- before.
And so I wanted to have a conversation about that or just kind of type my thoughts up about, like, how do we handle this? Like, how do we think about body autonomy and a culture that has conditioned us to formulate our sense of self-worth, our status, our power, our self-esteem, our whole quality of life around kind of how we're perceived and our body size and the beauty ideal.
And I think it's not just the tactic itself, it's the money behind it and it's social media.
Like, I didn't have social media 15 years ago, 20 years ago when I was, like, doing the latest diet.
I, I originally wrote it, I wanna say, like maybe a, a year ago, and it was kind of as a response to at that time when Serena Williams had come out, um, about GLP-1s, and there was a lot of kind of controversy and a lot of opinions about that, and a lot of hot takes, you know.
And I actually ended up having, I think, I think you have a, you have some private group coaching you do, right, Stephanie?
So I have a membership group, and we ended up talking about it and just kind of holding space for all the different feelings that were coming up for people.
And after that conversation, I was just reflecting and wanted to share some thoughts and just about what it means to be living in this moment right now and how different it feels than maybe it has for people in the past because it's nothing new, right? It's nothing new that we're seeing a new style of, um, you know, a new popular weight loss technique, right? It's, it's nothing new.
It feels more present, both because of just the accessibility of, um, you know, that social media offers and the media at large and celebrity culture and kind of the parasocial relationships that we form.
And then just how loud the marketing is right now around GLP-1s, which I personally do think is a really huge issue.
The marketing of these medications has become just really dangerous territory for a lot of people, you know? And so I think it's just louder and more pervasive than it has been fr- before.
And so I wanted to have a conversation about that or just kind of type my thoughts up about, like, how do we handle this? Like, how do we think about body autonomy and a culture that has conditioned us to formulate our sense of self-worth, our status, our power, our self-esteem, our whole quality of life around kind of how we're perceived and our body size and the beauty ideal.
And I think it's not just the tactic itself, it's the money behind it and it's social media.
Like, I didn't have social media 15 years ago, 20 years ago when I was, like, doing the latest diet.
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