Diet and weight talk is all around us! While we can do our best to change the subject or leave the room, it can also help to build resilience to that rhetoric.Sharing three tips on the blog today to become more resilient to diet talk! Diet culture is the sea we are swimming in.And like a fish who doesn’t recognize it’s in the water because that’s all it knows, we too can become unaware of the reality surrounding us.

Once folks learn about diet culture and develop an understanding of it, many people share a common experience of seeing and hearing it everywhere.It can often feel kinda overwhelming and hard to manage.There are tangible ways to handle this like changing the subject, leaving the room, or setting a boundary, which I talk about in my post on 3 ways to navigate diet talk, but what about the inner work? How do we develop a greater capacity for tolerating the discomfort that comes along with hearing this? How do we stay sturdy within ourselves so we don’t internalize what’s coming into our sphere? The answer lies in building resilience.

What is resilience anyway? The American Psychological Association (APA) defines resilience as “the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.” Some folks may be more apt to being resilient than others based on their ability to cope,

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