Dismantling Internalized Ageism with Body Liberation with Deb Benfield RD

Overview

Deb invites you to blaze a liberating new path to a respectful, nurturing relationship with your aging body.  She has helped hundreds of women heal their relationship with food, eating, and their bodies in her more than 35-year career as a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and Registered Yoga Teacher specializing in preventing and treating disordered eating. Now in her 60s, she focuses her research, training, passion, clinical, and lived experience on the intersection of pro-aging and body liberation. 

Her work is rooted in helping you: Shift your relationship with your body from your life’s project to your life partner; Nourish your body in midlife and beyond to support growing older in alignment with your values; Recognize internalized ageism and end it; Untangle from diet/wellness culture mess, and See midlife and beyond as a time of Emergence and Authenticity. Deb centers accessible practices so you can apply principles to your daily life and experience true transformation. Deb is also a lover of rivers, words, and her kids and grandkids.  She is currently envisioning life as a semi-nomad.

In this episode of Taking Up Space, we discussed: 

• Why women in particular can have such a hard time with aging and a changing body
• Youthfulness, sexiness, thinness, and the pressure to maintain the body you have as you age
• Body changes are normal and protective as we age, but someone women continue to feel as though its a personal failure or inadequacy
• The key challenges that people face in embracing aging with vitality while navigating societal pressures and expectations around appearance and wellness
• Practical strategies or practices that individuals can incorporate into their daily lives to promote vitality and well-being as they age

Read the Episode Transcript here.

Connect with Deb and her work:

• Website: https://www.debrabenfield.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agingbodyliberation/ 
• Deb offers 1:1 coaching, small group coaching, a membership community, and professional consultation.  

• Deb also founded Body in Mind Nutrition, a group practice of big-hearted and highly skilled Registered Dietitians specializing in weight-neutral care and treating eating disorders. 

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