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Meet Me in the Middle
by Annika Buckle, Jenny O'Mahony, Li Fryling
Our insight and analysis of the (often problematic) wellness world, and how we're navigating the middle ground within it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Intuitive Eating - ADHD Edition
In 2022, we did an episode about Intuitive Eating (it's good and you should definitely listen to it). But now that we have our ADHD diagnosis, we're learning more about our own experiences with food and trusting your body (truly, even just listening to it!) so join us this week as we extol the...
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Sephora Kids
If you haven't seen this trend pop up on your social feeds lately, you may have heard or read about it elsewhere. Join us as we talk about the social media trend of little kids being not only obsessed with skincare, but posting about it at length online. Jenny walks us through exactly is going on...
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Purity Culture & The Wellness World (Pt 2)
*Note from Annika: my mic was having issues in this episode (mainly that I didn't connect it properly, whoops) and so apologies that the sound is a little off for this week! Pretty sure I'll manage to not have it happen again, but if you think it sounds off... that's because it does!* While this...
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Purity Culture & The Wellness World (Pt 1)
Today we start a two episode series that Annika has been wanting to cover since the podcast began! We're journeying today down the rabbit hole inside the purity culture social phenomenon of the 1990s and early 2000s, situated within evangelical Christianity. While today we are mostly covering...
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Kate Middleton: Our Thoughts on KateGate
We might know where Kate Middleton is now, but join us this week for a conversation about the conversation around "where Kate Middleton went" (spoiler: nowhere) and what it means about being a public figure, and what media speculation and disinformation is creating around us. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Tradwives
If you're not on TikTok or YouTube, you might not have been exposed to the freshly revived Tradwife movement, so join us this week while we explore the resurgence of the Traditional Housewife movement/aesthetic. From gorgeous gardens to churning butter, all the way to MAGA hats and monetization,...
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ADHD Hacks Part 2
Thanks for your patience as we've had a few weeks with a lot of unplanned life going on! This is part 2 of our own personal experience with ADHD Hacks - we're covering some of the bigger lifestyle things that we didn't discuss in our last episode and sharing how we've been able to work together…
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ADHD Hacks Part 1
As we wrap up our neurodivergent January mini-series, join us as we talk about some of the non-pharmacological interventions that we use for our ADHD. This episode is part 1 of 2 as we don't talk about therapy OR exercise today but these are both things we're both very passionate about and use...
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ADHD Meds - Why I Started My Kid on Them and How It’s Going
Continuing on with our neurodivergent theme for January, this week Jenny shares a little bit about what it's been like to make the choice to medicate her child's ADHD and what it looks like to find a middle ground with some of the other non-pharmacological interventions that are available too....
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Happy New Year, We have ADHD!
Yeah, so for real - both Jenny and Annika have been diagnosed with ADHD very recently. Turns out it's not just shorthand for our inability to start or finish projects; there's more going on for both of us - birds of a feather and whatnot. We touch briefly on the prevalent idea that "everyone has...
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Navigating an Autism Diagnosis
Today's episode is a very personal peek behind the curtain. Join us in the messy middle as Jenny shares what it's like to navigate through noticing something is up with your kid through to the day of diagnosis. This is a chat about experiencing the system and finding the ways to advocate for what...
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Cabbage Patch Kids
Yes, it's the 40th anniversary of the Cabbage Patch Kid this year and if that makes you feel old then us too. But what a great time to take a peek behind the curtain on what exactly all the hype was like, and how we got there. Join us as we journey back to holiday season, 1983, and all the stops…
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Duggar Family Secrets: Movie Night (Pt 2)
Join us for a Meet Me in the Middle movie night. We watched the docu-series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets so you don't have to! This is the second of two episodes on this series, so if you haven't listened to part one, go back and do that - you join us kind of mid-idea here and it…
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Duggar Family Secrets: Movie Night (Pt 1)
Join us for a Meet Me in the Middle movie night. We watched the docu-series Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets so you don't have to! In this first of two episodes on this series, we dig in to the context that the hit TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting came up around, and some of the...
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Covenant Eyes
If you didn't grow up in a 1990s youth group, you might not have the intimate knowledge of a surveillance software like Covenant Eyes. Join us this week as Annika walks us thorough some of the politics of the new US Speaker Mike Johnson, the politics of American Christian Nationalism, and the…
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Beckham
Whether you follow soccer (or as the rest of the world calls it, football) or not, you've probably heard about the new Netflix mini-docuseries on David Beckham. This week, Jenny takes us through the part of the story that stuck with her long after she'd finished watching. Join us as we discuss...
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Canadian News Ban: Dude Where's my News? Pt 2
If you're in Canada, you might have noticed that news has disappeared - or is in the process of disappearing - from your social media feeds and internet searches. This week, in part 2 of a 2 part episode, we actually dig in to the details of Bills C-11 (the Online Streaming Act) and C-18 (the...
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Canadian News Ban: Dude Where's my News? Pt 1
If you're in Canada, you might have noticed that news has disappeared - or is in the process of disappearing - from your social media feeds and internet searches. This week, in part 1 of a 2 part episode, we dig in to why. Before we review the details in Bill C-11 and Bill C-18, we have to talk a...
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The Coaching Industry
In today's wellness world circle of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps", we dive into the coaching industry! Is it a helpful addition to a toolbox of support, or repackaged victim-blaming that ignores structural inequalities? (Spoiler - we're looking for middle ground, soooo...) Edit/Follow up…
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Aspartame & IG Partnerships
This week, we get into the weeds with a social media "scandal" that broke a few weeks ago. Should registered dieticians be paid by industry groups to create social media content? Digressions include a long and detailed conversation about the safety of aspartame (we know you've been asking!), and...
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The Master Cleanse
Today we're going to deep dive into a topic that came up in nearly every decade we looked at in our summer series - the Master Cleanse! Yes, you're remembering right if you are thinking about eating or drinking nothing but a "lemonade" made of water, cayenne pepper, maple syrup, and squeezed...
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Deodorant & Antiperspirant
This week, we dig into the history of trying to make ourselves smell good, and debunk some myths around the use of products under our arms. (And yes, it looks like you can still order Odorono if you so desire!) Should you wear antiperspirant? Will it give you breast cancer? Join us as we review…
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The Racist History of Canada's Food Guide
Welcome to season 2 of our podcast! We're so excited to come back from a journey through the past, right into a story about Canada's complicated and racist history around food (content warning: residential schools, child abuse and neglect). And, if you have ideas or suggestions for topics for...
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2010s Wellness Trends
Join us for the final instalment in our summer series as we tour through history! This episode wraps up our weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This is episode 10 and it's the last week to listen to us highlight the…
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2000s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer (and early fall), we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 9, we finally cross into the new millennium! When Y2K...
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1990s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 8, we journey into the 1990s! If you've been waiting for us to get to...
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1980s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 7, we've finally made it to a decade we were alive in - the 1980s! This...
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1970s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 6, we talk about the 1970s. Not only was this the decade of avocado…
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1960s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 5, we talk about the 1960s. From a three martini lunch to the…
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1950s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 4, we talk about the 1950s - the war might be over but the policing of...
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1940s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 3, we talk about the 1940s, which not only featured WW2, but also...
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1930s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 2, we talk about the 1930s, which was not only the great depression but...
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1920s Wellness Trends
Join us in our summer series as we tour through history! This summer, we're going to do a weekly dive into each decade of the last 100 years and the most notable/painful/absurd/hilarious wellness trends. This week, in episode 1, we talk about the 1920s, which was not all just flappers and...
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Matcha
You have probably heard or read about the wellness benefits of green tea, so join us as we talk about some very specific claims around matcha. You'll meet some familiar faces and it shouldn't be too much of a spoiler to say that we find a middle ground approach by the end. The instagram post that...
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The Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox
If you lived in Vancouver and were in the wellness community (or even the broader community) in the early aughts, you might have heard about the Wild Rose Cleanse. If you're like Annika, you might even have done it - a few times... Join us this week as we talk about this cleanse specifically and...
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The Mediterranean Diet
Join us as we dig into the mediterranean diet - there's a lot of hype about it being a pretty close to prefect way to eat but is it just hype? Discussions include the health impacts of an afternoon siesta and a reminder once again that Annika really hates cooking. Hosted on Acast. See...
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Continuous Glucose Monitors
If you have any wellness content in your social feeds, you might have seen the recommendation to track your glucose levels for your health. This week, we talk specifically about the wellness trend to use continuous glucose monitors to track and hack your health. Is there anything to this? Join us...
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Collagen
You've probably read or seen *someone* you know or follow online suggesting a collagen supplement for your health, but is it just another wellness fad or is there some truth behind it? Is there a consensus on what kind of difference it makes for your *wellness* and if so, what is it? We dive in…
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Jenny Craig
We won't say that we're sad to see the doors of a diet culture OG close it's doors forever, but when we heard Jenny Craig was closing it's door permanently we wanted to dig a little deeper. Join us for a history lesson and some deconstruction of diet culture messaging. TW/CW: dieting, calories,...
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Parasocial Interaction - that thing when you think you know a celebrity
If you have ever had the sense that you "know" a celebrity or online personality, then you'll feel us on this episode. From boy bands to Princess Diana, we discuss parasocial interactions and relationships - and of course, it all comes back to money (say it with us - it was capitalism all along!)...
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"Clean" Beauty
This week we talk in detail about "clean beauty" - what does it actually mean? Is it more than a marketing technique - and what of it's possibly problematic history? Join us as we dig in to this and more. CW/TW: these links that we discuss within the history are painfully racist, please exercise...
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Naturopathic Medicine with Dr. Akehurst
Our very first interview episode! We are so excited this week to bring you a middle ground discussion with Dr Carley Akehurst, Naturopathic Doctor. Regardless if you think Naturopaths are the only way - the be-all and end-all for care - OR if you think they are "fringe", this episode will have…
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The New Canadian Alcohol Guidelines
This week we dissect the new Canadian alcohol guidelines - not only do we dig in to the actual meat of the report, but because we have different alcohol consumption patterns ourselves we really dig in to different sides and perspectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Cold Plunging
If you've been around the wellness world for a hot minute you've probably heard about or seen someone promoting cold therapy of some kind - cold showers, ice baths, etc and wondered - why? Or at least - does this do all the things that I've heard it can (or does it even do any of it)? This week…
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In the Middle with Us: Being Wrong
This week is a follow up to last week's episode around having hard conversations and not dying. Join us as we talk on a personal level about what it's meant to us to change our minds or deciding to have dialogue around tough or controversial conversations. As always, if you want more or less of...
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How to be Wrong and Not Die
The ethos of this podcast is and has always been to seek out the middle, but what does that *actually* look like in practice? This week we dive in to what it looks like to have tricky (maybe political?) conversations and maintaining relationships, even when we might be on different pages. This is...
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Free Birth Control in British Columbia
In Canada's province of British Columbia recently, it was announced that certain forms of birth control will be included in everyone's basic medical services plan starting April 1. Join us as we talk about the (sometimes dark) history of birth control and our legal historical context in Canada....
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Beyond Impossible Meat
This week we take a slightly different approach to finding the middle - join us on a journey of looking deeply at "both sides" in the meat vs plant-based meat conversation. As always, we seek out the middle ground and share our own personal opinions, beliefs, and biases - we aren't necessarily...
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In the Middle with Us: Women's Work (Part 2)
This week we take a slightly different route on our episode - a personal conversation. In some ways this is a part two to last week, but it's also just a conversation. Grab a cup of tea and sit down with us as we share our own personal experiences growing up, and our contexts now with work inside...
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The Invisible Work of Women
We branch off this week from strictly "wellness" into middle ground around the experience of women and labour. In the conversation that kicked this off, we were talking about that statistic that "being a mom is the equivalent of 2.5 jobs" and we wanted to look at that a little more. (We'd love to...
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Our insight and analysis of the (often problematic) wellness world, and how we're navigating the middle ground within it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Meet Me in the Middle is created and hosted by Annika Buckle, Jenny O'Mahony, Li Fryling.
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