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Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

Nia Patterson

17 episodes

2 months ago

This week is the last episode of Season 1 of Body Trauma. And for this episode, it is a solo episode with just Nia speaking for the podcast. In this week's episode, I tell you the story of my own body's trauma throughout the years. I start from birth and move up to the present day. We get into a lot of raw feelings and places. Please listen along this week to my story and also please support the podcast and my work by joining my Patreon at patreon.com/thefriendineverwanted. Nia is an eating d...

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This week is the last episode of Season 1 of Body Trauma. And for this episode, it is a solo episode with just Nia speaking for the podcast. In this week's episode, I tell you the story of my own body's trauma throughout the years. I start from birth and move up to the present day. We get into a lot of raw feelings and places. Please listen along this week to my story and also please support the podcast and my work by joining my Patreon at patreon.com/thefriendineverwanted. Nia is an eating d...

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Society & Culture,

Self-Improvement,

Episodes (17/17)

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#016: My Body Trauma Story: How We Cope with Emotions with Nia Patterson

This week is the last episode of Season 1 of Body Trauma. And for this episode, it is a solo episode with just Nia speaking for the podcast. In this week's episode, I tell you the story of my own body's trauma throughout the years. I start from birth and move up to the present day. We get into a lot of raw feelings and places. Please listen along this week to my story and also please support the podcast and my work by joining my Patreon at patreon.com/thefriendineverwanted. Nia is an eating d...

5 years ago

1 hour 1 minute

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#015: Where Do Marginalized People Go To Find Their Utopia? with Caleb Luna

Caleb Luna (@chairbreaker), a fat queer (of color) critical theorist, artist, and performance scholar joins Nia Patterson for the fifteenth episode of the podcast. In this week's episode the two of us talk about Caleb's upbringing living with various forms of abuse and trauma. From familial trauma to bullying and more. Caleb also tells us about what it has been like to live in a disabled body. We discuss queerness as a concept and its political roots. We also discuss fatness as an aspect of w...

5 years ago

1 hour 12 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#014: How to Handle Not Being Liked with Megan Crabbe @bodyposipanda

Megan Crabbe (@bodyposipanda), an author, influencer, performer and so much more joins Nia Patterson for the fourteenth episode of the podcast. This week the two of us talk about everything Megan and we cover a lot of topics! We talk about Megan's experiences growing up in a biracial body and also a "chunky" body as she puts it. We talk about her experiences with her body from a young age, through puberty, and into adulthood. We cover how her eating disorder started and how she managed to pul...

5 years ago

1 hour 36 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#013: Unpacking Black Liberation and Black Mental Health with Monique Melton

Monique Melton, an anti-racism educator, published author, international speaker, and fellow podcast host joins Nia Patterson for the thirteenth episode of the podcast. This week the two of us talk about Monique's experiences growing up in a Black body and also about Black Liberation and the ways she benefits from privilege even in a multiply-marginalized body. Monique talks to us about her experiences with Mental Health, including suicidal ideation and depression. She talks about being calle...

5 years ago

43 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#012: The Trauma of Chronic Illness and How Does Privilege Help Us Move Through the World Easier? with Anna Sweeney

Anna Sweeney, a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor joins Nia Patterson for a talk about chronic illness and privilege. This week on the twelfth episode of the podcast we talk about Anna's experience growing up with developing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) since the age of 12 and how that has caused physical trauma and mental trauma to her body. She also talks about the privilege she benefits from in her body and how that has lessened the trauma s...

5 years ago

50 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#011: Swatting Away the Negative Thoughts and Critiques About our Bodies with Dalina Soto

Dalina Soto, MA, RD, LDN, a bilingual registered dietitian at Your Latina Nutritionist joins Nia Patterson this week on the eleventh episode of the podcast. We talk about Dalina's experience with body image after the birth of her first child and developing stretch marks on her body. She talks about her life growing up within the Dominican cultural frame. We talk about different ways that we have encountered racism in the world. Then we move on to discuss how she became a dietitian and how she...

5 years ago

44 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#010: The Ways that Eating Disorders and Exercise Addiction Cause Trauma to our Bodies with Naomi Savin

Naomi Savin, a writer, recovery advocate and blogger, joins Nia Patterson for an episode about eating disorders and exercise addiction. This week on the tenth episode of the podcast we talk about Naomi's experience with anorexia when she was in high school and the exercise addiction she developed as a result of that. She talks about her life growing up while restricting food and the ways that hunger manifested in her life. We talk about how her exercise addiction started from her love of runn...

5 years ago

58 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#009: Living Life with Type 1 Diabetes and Learning to Advocate for our Bodies with Sarah Buchanan

Sarah Buchanan, an author, artist, food blogger, and one of my really good friends joins Nia Patterson for what is probably our funniest episode to date! This week on the ninth episode of the podcast we talk about Sarah's experience being a Type 1 Diabetic since the age of 4 and how that has affected her physical health as well as her mental health. She talks about her life growing up with childhood bullying and trauma. We talk about how important it is that we are able to advocate for our bo...

5 years ago

1 hour 21 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#008: How our Bodies are Affected by Racism, OCD, and Childhood Trauma with Carolina Guízar

Carolina Guízar, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and certified intuitive eating counselor, joins Nia Patterson this week on the eight episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma growing up in a straight-size, Latinx body. She talks about her life growing up with childhood trauma and racism. We talk about OCD and the different ways it presents for both of us and how we cope with it. We also talk about Health At Every Size (HAES) and what does that even mean. Lastly, we throw in so...

5 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#007: Recovery from an Eating Disorder through Body Neutrality and Dance with Colleen Werner

Colleen Werner, a ballet dancer, writer, and therapist-in-training, joins Nia Patterson this week on the seventh episode of the podcast to talk about her life experiences growing up with an eating disorder in a weight centric family. She talks about her history with dance and how she has started to dance again late in her recovery and since she's become fully recovered from anorexia. We talk about body image and how we can counter it with body neutrality. We also talk about dating while in a ...

5 years ago

1 hour 11 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#006: Living with Mental and Physical Illness as a Fat, Black Woman in America with Evette Dionne

Evette Dionne, a Black feminist culture journalist, critic, author and editor-in-chief, joins Nia Patterson this week on the sixth episode of the podcast to talk about her body's experiences with physical health and mental health while being black in America. We talk about how black and fat women are expected to uphold hyperfemininity in their day-to-day lives. Evette talks about how medical fatphobia and bias kept her from getting treatment for critical heart disease. We also break down what...

5 years ago

1 hour 13 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#005: What Is It Like Being Black in America With Mental Illness and How Do We Treat It? with Alishia McCullough

Alishia McCullough, a black Licensed Clinical Mental Health Therapist, joins Nia Patterson this week on the fifth episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma, racism, eating disorder recovery, and being black in the mental health field. We talk about what is going on the country right now with the War on Black and we talk about how can we improve the occurrence of mental health practitioners of color. We talk about both our experiences growing up black in America and how we developed...

5 years ago

1 hour 8 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#004: Ways Our Bodies Hold onto Trauma through PTSD and Chronic Pain with Jude Valentin

Jude Valentin is a content creator who posts @mermaidqueenjude, joins Nia Patterson this week on the fourth episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma, chronic pain, PTSD, and eating disorder recovery. We talk about processing grief, cooking and food, holding space for our followers, and our mutual theater kid histories. This episode is riddled with dark humor and sarcasm as well as painful vulnerability and story sharing. Join us as we talk about how our mental and physical health ...

5 years ago

1 hour 25 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#003: How Does Social Media Influence our Body Image and Perceived Self Worth? with Clare @recoverybrainfood

Clare, an instagram figure who posts @recoverybrainfood, joins Nia Patterson this week on the third episode of the podcast to talk about her body trauma and eating disorder recovery. We talk about damaging parenting, major weight loss from an eating disorder, and then branch off into talking about our social media accounts and how we manage them. This episode is filled with laughs and sarcasm and also serious moments and revelations. Join us as we talk about how social media can help us in re...

5 years ago

1 hour 18 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#002: Growing up Black / How Racism Shapes our Relationships with our Bodies with Ayana Habtemariam

Ayana Habtemariam, a registered anti-diet dietitian and social worker joins Nia Patterson on this second episode of the podcast to discuss body trauma in her life. We talk about racism and discrimination based on our bodies and how these create tangible trauma in our bodies. We also confess some little-known secrets about black women. Ayana is a nutrition therapist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and macro social worker. She is the founder of Truly Real Nutrition, LLC, a private nutr...

5 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

#001: What is Body Trauma and What Do All These Words Mean? with Ayesha King

Fellow woman of color and Nia’s best friend, Ayesha King, joins us on this episode of the podcast to discuss the various body traumas that exist. We also talk about where we hope this podcast is going and we get some good laughs in along the way. Ayesha King is a thirty-something California native. She identifies as Filipino-Bengali, a first-generation college graduate and makes her living in education. Ayesha has had psoriasis for 20 years and lives in an average body. She is a daughter, sis...

5 years ago

42 minutes

Body Trauma: A Storytelling Podcast

Body Trauma Trailer

Body Trauma premieres in May 2020! For a quick intro to what this podcast will be about take a listen to Nia Patterson introduce herself and the podcast. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and check us out at www.bodytraumapod.com for more.

5 years ago

2 minutes