Episode 78

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16th Oct 2024

Love the skin you are in – with Molly Forbes

Molly is founder of The Body Happy Organisation and author of ‘Every Body’ and ‘Body Happy Kids’  

We spoke to Molly about: 

  • Her background as a journalist and why she decided to focus on researching and promoting Body Confidence for children (and adults). 
  • Diet culture around children and becoming aware of all the things they are watching and absorbing all the time. 
  • Teaching children to value, respect and give dignity to everyone regardless of what they look like. 
  • Body diversity, discrimination and poor body image. 
  • Weight stigma and weight bias and how this can affect people throughout their lives, for example how well children do in school, in their career and future lives. 
  • Molly’s books – ‘Every Body’ for children aged 9+ - and how body image is ‘a we issue not a me issue’ and ‘Body Happy Kids’ written for parents to help children and teens love the skin they are in - raising children with a positive body image. 
  • Being at peace with your body and all the things that feed into this – body appreciation. 
  • How parents can approach conversations with children when they are being negative about their bodies or when someone has made a comment about their body.  
  • How listening and encouraging children to talk to us is one of the most important things we can teach them. 

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