Minding the Body Edited by Patricia Foster with Jess Brock-Pitts

Fat Girl Book Club

Major discussion points included:

• Jess's journey to becoming a weight neutral personal trainer
• Getting over the idea that we need to earn our right to be fat
• How Jess found this book and what impact its had on her life
• Major differences between this reading and reading this book when she was 17
• Jess's favourite story
• Have we shifted as a culture since the 90s in regards to respect for bodies?
• The most haunting story in the book
• Attaching our value was women to the male gaze
• The comparison trap and how to get out of it
• Feminism and body liberation
• Is it a natural course to buy into beauty ideals before deconstructing them?
• Makeup and social media

Links

Jess's Instagram

Jess's Facebook

Jess's Youtube

Jess's website

The Lightbulb Fitness Club

Regular Fitness Classes

The Your Better Body Image Checklist

The Better Body Image Facebook group

Fat Girl Book Club Instagram

Fat Girl Book Club Merchandise

Book Picks

Minding the Body Edited by Patricia Foster

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg

The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf