Yes& Body Politics
by Tresla and Guru Shabd
We are two women who are passionate about body positivity and empowering people. This podcast is an opportunity start the conversation about being fierce. Self Esteem, Image, pressures, fashion, love, sex, feminism and more. Follow us on instagram:@yesandbodypolitics@curvykimchi and @grrshubzE-mail: [email protected]
Episodes
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Ep 708: Fatphobia, Shame, Disability & Movement
Why do people make fun of me being fat? What is ableism? Why do I feel bad about being fat? I am fat and disabled why are doctors so focused on my weight? Why can't I get help for my disability? Why is it hard to ask for help? Why is there limited resources to support my disability? Why is...
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Ep 707: Fatphobia in Reproductive Healthcare & Pediatrics
Does being fat make it hard to get pregnant? Does obesity affect fertility? Do hormones impact weight? What science do we actually know about being fat and conception? I want to have a baby and my doctor won't stop telling me to lose weight, why does this happen? Is my infertility all my fault?...
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Ep 706: Fatphobia & Mental Health
Is my therapist mad at me for being fat? Why does my therapist want to know my BMI? Does being fat affect how people treat me? Does being fat make me mentally ill? Is my therapist prejudiced against fat people? Should my therapist give me diet and exercise tips? Why do I feel so guilty after…
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Ep 705: Fatphobia in Medical language, insurance, and clinician communication
Why does my doctor say I am obese? Does being obese mean I am not healthy? What does obese mean? Is obese a medical term? Is obesity science? Is obesity a disease? Why do I feel shame around the word obese? Do I need an advocate at my doctors appointment? Why does my doctor treat being obese like…
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Ep 704: Fatphobia, Weight Loss As A Cure All
Will losing weight make me healthy? Is my doctor practicing outdated science? Is my doctor hurting me? Does the BMI tell me if I am healthy? Why does my doctor want to put me on ozempic/semiglutide to lose weight? Is there a cure for being fat? Do fat people need to be cured? Why does my doctor...
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Ep 703: Fatphobia, systemic racism, patriarchy, cultural stigma and norms
Is fatphobia racist? Is fatphobia prejudice? Is the medical system practicing racism by vilifying obesity? Do people of color get worse medical care? Is my doctor actually helping me? How can I tell if my doctor is biased? Is BMI meant for women? What are the racist origins of fatphobia? Are...
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Ep 702: Fatphobia, The Obesity Crisis, & The Medias Portrayal
Is there an obesity crisis? Is TV and social media fatphobic? Is public health information wrong about being fat? Did the war on obesity work? Why was there a war on obesity? Why do people hate fat people? Does social media and tv still represent old problematic beliefs that aren't actual…
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Ep 701: Fatphobia How Doctors & Clinicians Can Help
What is fatphobia? Why does fatphobia matter? Why is fatphobia so prevalent? What can doctors and clinicians do about it? Is the BMI real? Is the BMI even science? What are concrete solutions and steps that could help improve the medical system and our relationships with Doctors and Clinicians?...
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Ep 700: The Prequel, A Different Conversation
New Season, Serious Vibes, Same Passion Join our heavily researched series Fatphobia in the Medical industry All cited sources found at yesandbodypolitics.com
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Ep 614: Know When to Take a Break
This week we talk about self compassion. When is it important to recognize our limits and prioritize certain needs. It can be hard, but changing the world, building a business, or being your best self is a long process. You need to make sure you can handle the marathon, not just the sprint. You...
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Ep 613: Why Are Doctors Fat Phobic?
How do you feel when you think about doctors visits? Are you filled with dread, excitement, anxiety? Join us as Guru Shabd talks about her recent experience, and how we can take care of ourselves and our bodies even when "authorities" are telling us the opposite. Follow us on Instagram:...
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Ep 612: I Feel Ugly
This week we get VULNERABLE! How do we deal with feeling ugly and unattractive, when despite our best intentions, it feels impossible? Join us as we practice being gentle with ourselves and each other, and try to navigate difficult feelings we often leave unsaid. Follow us on Instagram:...
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Ep 611: AITA Others Shitty Opinions
AITA Body positive edition continues with uncovering how other peoples beliefs, comments and attitudes can change and form our opinions about ourselves. Join us as we talk about and ask: Ways family, friends and even strangers can add to the self loathing that hurts us and what if we didn't have…
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Ep 610: AITA Hurt People Hurt Others
Am I the asshole body positive edition continues as we talk about how people who are hurting hurt people. What happens when we have internalized our trauma and never work on it? Join us as we review some doozies, and thank a 17 year old for being incredible BOPO advocate! Follow us on Instagram:...
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Ep 609: AITA Fat Fashion & Friends
It's 2022 Baby!!! Tresla & Guru Shabd are back (and so is our friend Mercury Retrograde)! AITA body positive edition continues as we talk about pandemic doldrums, shopping, sizing autonomy, plus size small businesses, and fast fashion. Who knows your body and victories better than you? Follow us…
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Ep 608: Body Shaming and The Holidays
We are pausing ATA and we're talking about the fall and winter holidays, (all of them). We talk about the things that are challenging or triggering, like having family comment on our bodies and food, or the overwhelming weight loss messaging we expect with the New Year. Join us as we discuss how...
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Ep 607: AITA Eating Disorders & Toxic Traits
Am I the asshole body positive edition continues as we talk about toxic behavior during the holiday season. How do you feel about Bill Maher encouraging fat shaming? Do you know toxic relationship trait red flags? Join us as we talk about ARFID, and how people can be cruel around food needs they...
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Ep 606: AITA Dating A Fat Girl (Ft: @MandaPaints)
Am I the asshole body positive edition continues with our special guest Amanda Lee. Join us as we talk about self respect, our need to defend our fat to strangers, the culture of fat phobia, and navigate dating, health and living in joy. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers…
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Ep 605: AITA Fat Shamed in a Relationship
Am I the asshole body positive edition continues as we talk a lot about terrible relationships, manipulative situationships, unhealthy marriages and mean siblings. Join us as we remind ourselves of our worth and making sure we are being treasured and cared for as we deserve! Follow us on…
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Ep 604: AITA Do I Need To Tell People I'm Fat?
Am I the asshole body positive edition continues as we navigate self image and how we allow others to dictate our worth. Why do we have to keep proving our worth and choices? Join us as we discuss dating expectations, weight loss challenges, and fat phobic triggering bullies in the work place....
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Ep 603: AITA It's Cute When you Can Mind Your Own Body Autonomy
Am I the asshole body positive edition continues as we explore why it's important for idiots to keep their opinions to themselves when they can't respect body autonomy. What do you do when someone who is on a body changing journey turns into a projecting hateful activist for weight loss and…
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Ep 602: AITA Am I Fat Phobic?
Am I the asshole, body positive edition with opinions flying with extra special noises that must be interpreted! Join us as we venture the opinions on Reddit and find out how strangers deal with fat phobia, bad dates, and communication. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers…
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Ep 601: Vaxxed, Fat, & Mad
Let's talk about Rebel Wilsons inherent fatphobic comments after weight loss and why it's bad to exploit your fanbase on your way to social climbing. Why do people who lose weight turn into bullies instead of minding their business? Why can't people adore people like they adore and encourage fat...
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EP 515: Why Should I Advocate for Myself?
Why is asking for what I need so hard? Can I be ok with making people mad? Is it better to be agreeable and stifled, or disagreeable and free? Join us as we talk about the risks, vulnerability, and challenges required to live according to your own sense of agency. Follow us on Instagram:...
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EP 514: Am I Bad at Dating?
Am I bad at dating? Am I just doing it wrong? What is my bare minimum? Are others opinions affecting my judgement? Join us as we talk about dating, lessons learned, and how to make choices that are right for you in the dating in the deep end of the pool. Follow us on Instagram…
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Ep 513: What is the Weight Limit? NSFW
Are you afraid to take up space, specifically the space ON TOP OF another person? Join us as we talk about sitting on laps and why we think we aren't allowed. Do women have to be smaller and daintier than our partners? Why do we even want to? Who says we can't sit where we want (consensually of...
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Ep 512: What Am I So Afraid of?
What have your fears kept you from doing? Join us as we discuss whether our fear keeps us safe or keep us away from really cool things. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers: Tresla Friedrick (@curvykimchi), Guru Shabd Khalsa (@grrshubz)
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Episode 511: Fat in a Swimsuit
Why does wearing a swimsuit scare you? Why are swimsuits so physically, emotionally, and financially challenging? Join us as we talk about our journeys through buying swimwear and why you shouldn't hide your body. Your body deserves to be comfortable and feel pretty at the beach! Follow us on...
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Episode 510: Why do I Ignore Relationship Red Flags?
The struggle to stay 'you' as an independent being while trying to navigate compromise is difficult. Do you ignore your needs or instincts in the interest of keeping a relationship going? Are second guessing your own thoughts and feelings? Join us as we talk about relationship red flags, pursuing...
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Episode 509: What is Self Confidence and Self Esteem?
Guru had the mind blowing realization that she made self confidence and self esteem synonyms! *Gasp* does anyone else do that? How many of our feelings and recognition of self are we lumping together as the same thing?! Join us as we get weird and vulnerable while trying to support each others...
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Episode 508: How to Deal with Anger
Do you struggle with how to be angry? Today let's have a conversation about anger. Join us as we discuss, why some people see anger as negative and scary and something that should be avoided. Tresla & Guru Shabd discuss how we've approached our anger and the ways we are learning to trust and...
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Episode 507: Happy Birthday Yes& BOPO!
It's Yes& Body Politics Birthday and oh the adventures Guru Shabd & Tresla have had! Join us as we discuss how we have grown, learned, and stepped out of our comfort zones over the past three years. Take a walk down memory lane as we remember the barriers, victories, look at how we have changed,...
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Episode 506: Why do I hate Exercise?
We've been focusing on getting strong which means we are met with our worst negative self talk, and Marvin is not having it. This week we talk to Marvin, who has been teaching, coaching and reading us for filth. Join us as we discuss the experience of being in our bodies, and using movement as...
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Episode 505: No Bad Shapes Challenge
Are we missing out on some beautiful shapes because we (and society) has decided that shape is incorrect? Are there shapes on our body that we hide or dislike? Join us as we take those steps to challenge ourselves to be more than the judgmental notions we've attached to our daily lives. Follow us...
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Episode 504: Managing a Stressful Challenge
This month we pushed ourselves out of our boxes and became a whole production company! Was it worth it? If you do something that's difficult what will you discover about yourself? Join us as we talk about how we negotiate boundaries and needs, manage challenges in order to achieve something…
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Episode 503: Challenging Fear & Anxiety
How are you handling the fear of the world opening up and the fear associated with racism and living in this country right now? Are you ready to be seen after surviving over a year in the pandemic? Join us as we talk about how we challenge our fears, and give insight into goals we have set to…
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Episode 502: Inspire Vs Empower
This week we have been interviewing incredible women about concern trolling and social media. Join us as we talk about advocacy, the medical industry and fat phobia, and how we are looking at navigating the world post lockdown. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers: Tresla…
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Ep 501: Life, Right?
It's catch up time and we're back with a new season! Join us a we discuss what have we been up to you and how are we dealing with the world, then ask each other some hilarious questions! Card questions can be found at: https://shop.theskindeep.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics...
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Ep 414: Maybe it's Retrograde
Season 4 Finale! Mercury retrograde, communication, and lessons we have learned. Join us as we talk about cycles, personality profiles, and how we are always working to better ourselves. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers: Tresla Friedrick (@curvykimchi), Guru Shabd Khalsa...
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Ep 413: Why can't I have an Opinion?
Let's talk about a lot of different things, the Covid Vaccine, the BLM movement, racism, the lack of acknowledgment in media about current events, and communication with blood family vs found family. Join us as we get down and dirty with a smorgasbord opinion buffet of ideas! Follow us on...
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Ep 412: Medical System Trauma
What happens when you're sick and the person who is supposed to help you doesn't believe you or worse, ridicules you to your face? This situation happens regularly to people in larger bodies. Join us as we discuss our experiences with this, and ways to take care of ourselves despite the…
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Ep 411: Confidence!
Confidence! What does it mean? How does one build confidence and how does it change over time? Join us as we talk about our journeys to the people we are now. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers: Tresla Friedrick (@curvykimchi), Guru Shabd Khalsa @grrshubz
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Ep 410: Hey Jealousy
What makes us jealous, and does that make us bad people? How can we defeat the green eyed monster, or should we at all? join us as we ask ourselves, "Is our jealousy trying to tell us something?" Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers: Tresla Friedrick (@curvykimchi), Guru Shabd...
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Ep 409: Sexiness & Hypocrisy
CW: MENTIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THIS EPISODE Why is there such a double standard for men and women's sexuality? How are we supposed to balance being the right kind of sexy, but only on society's terms, and how come woman get in trouble for their sexiness so much more than men? Why does showing…
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Episode 408: Racism NSFW
It's already been a rough year and it's only been a week! Our country is struggling under the shadow of white supremacy and racism. It's a problem that we cannot hope to address until everyone acknowledges it's existence and works to counteract it. Join us as we have an emotional and heart felt...
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Episode 407: Before & After
Is comparison really helpful? What about your before and after photos and videos? Does seeing this make you feel bad? Is it always harmful? Can we decide to live and celebrate who we are without punishing who we used to be? Join us as we discuss comparison, self acceptance, and body neutrality....
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Episode 406: New Years Disillusion
What is your relationship with New Years resolutions, goal setting, and making intentions? Do you think they help or hurt you more. Is someone profiting from your resolution (a gym, a diet company, a clothing company?) We invite you to do something different this year, if resolutions aren't…
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Episode 405: Social Media Trolls
Concern trolling & social media, what is it, why does it keep happening, and what can you do about it? We discuss why people feel entitled to tell others what is and is not ok for their bodies. What would you do if you didn't have to worry about someone having an unwelcome and hurtful opinion?...
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Episode 404: HairOsphere & All The Hair
Welcome to the hairOsphere! Let's talk about all the hair! Why is it so important to maintain certain standards or styles, and why does it feel so bad to be different? Why do we experience fat shaming or pressure to have certain body hair or hair style? Have you been told you can't have a style…
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Episode 403: Diet Culture & Bad Doctors
Do you know what diet culture is and how it affects you? Can we even agree on it? How do we know when to stand up for yourself? We get personal talking about diet culture, disordered eating, and medical trauma especially when you're fat. Follow us on Instagram: @yesandbodypolitics Producers…
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About this show
We are two women who are passionate about body positivity and empowering people. This podcast is an opportunity start the conversation about being fierce. Self Esteem, Image, pressures, fashion, love, sex, feminism and more. Follow us on instagram:@yesandbodypolitics@curvykimchi and @grrshubzE-mail: [email protected]
Hosted by
Tresla and Guru Shabd