Body Positivity Archives

Eating Disorders Awareness Week

25th February 2020

Body Positivity, Management, Mental Health, Podcast, Wellbeing

This week on the Diverse Minds podcast is all about Eating Disorders Awareness Week, and I’m delighted to be joined by Hope Virgo. If you enjoyed this episode, then consider subscribing on Apple podcast, Spotify or wherever you access your podcasts from. There are two weeks allocated to raising awareness about eating disorders. Firstly, the National Eating Disorders Association’s week running from the 24 Feb to the 1 March. The second one run by Beat Eating disorders from 2 to…

People of colour, sex and mental health

11th February 2020

Leyla O

Body Positivity, Mental Health, Podcast, Race Equality

We are approaching Valentine’s Day, where the focus is commercial love. This can be too much. So, today’s podcast is all about exploring people of colour, sex and mental health. I couldn’t talk about this on my own, because I am not an expert. I am delighted to be joined by Dr Annabel Sowemimo on this week’s episode of the Diverse Minds podcast. If you enjoyed this episode, then consider subscribing on Apple podcast, Spotify or wherever you access your…

Body Positivity and how to be an ally with Sarah-Daisy Burnard

14th January 2020

Leyla O

Body Positivity, Diversity, Mental Health, Podcast, Wellbeing

It’s National Obesity Week, so I wanted to take a different perspective and talk about Body Positivity on this week’s episode. To help me with this, I am joined by Sarah-Daisy Burnard who hosts the podcast Shake the Tree. About my guest Sarah is a 43-year-old mother of 4 with one more on the way. Having grown up in Oxford, she describes herself as a dual heritage having a Mauritian mother and English Jewish father. Sarah has always felt a…