HeyJaredThe Body Grievers® Club
Welcome to The Body Grievers® Club – a podcast aimed to help you explore your body image. I'm Bri, a trained mental health counselor + body image coach. I know how distressful body image can SUCK and I want to sit in that grief with you.
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97. Beyond the Food with Stephanie Dodier (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri talks with non-diet nutritionist and cognitive behavioral coach Stephanie Dodier about how many people move from rejecting diet culture into a new "health" identity that still moralizes food as healthy/unhealthy, keeping them stuck in food noise, shame, restriction, and weight cycling. Stephanie explains her "Beyond the Food" methodology, using coaching questions to unpack thoughts, beliefs, and identity, and emphasizes autonomy, self-trust, and "h
96. Bri's 7 Steps to Move Through Body Grief (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri reframes body trust as secure attachment to the body and explains that body grief is unavoidable because bodies change, get sick, and experience discomfort and loss. She shares a seven-step, trauma-informed acronym—GRIEVER—as a tangible roadmap for shifting body image work from cognitive fixes to somatic practice, emphasizing that there's no final "arrival," only learning to tolerate and manage distress safely. Using the example of trying on clothe
95. You Can Do Everything Right and Still Get Breast Cancer with Jenna Werner (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri talks with registered dietician and private practice founder Jenna Werner about body grief, body image, and self-trust after Jenna's recent breast cancer diagnosis. Jenna shares how a baseline mammogram required before a planned breast augmentation revealed stage zero DCIS that couldn't be felt, leading to a double mastectomy, reconstruction with expanders, lymph node testing, and ongoing discussions about estrogen-suppressing medication due to rec
94. Fat People Can Do Pilates, Too with Dr. Danica Harris (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Body Grievers ® Club, Bri is joined by Dr. Danica Harris, a counseling psychologist turned somatic experiencing practitioner and co-owner of a trauma-informed group therapy practice, to explore how Pilates can support body-based healing, strength, and mobility. They discuss rebuilding a relationship with movement after burnout, chronic pain, hypermobility, and the pandemic, including grief around changing body size, lost privilege, and internalized ableism. Bri and Danica
93. Body Neutral with Jessi Kneeland (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Body GrieversⓇ Club, Bri interviews body image coach and "Body Neutral" author Jessi Kneeland about why body positivity and self-love often feel inaccessible and ignore social context, and how body neutrality focuses on moral neutrality by stripping false, inflated meaning from appearance. Using examples like having a zit, they discuss how body shame spirals come from learned beliefs about worth and failure, and how "health" is frequently used as a socially acceptable cove
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