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This page is all about celebrating our journey of sharing the message of Joyous Adaptive Momentous Movement with a broader audience, one media appearance at a time.
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Diet Culture Reincarnated: How SkinnyTok Is Seeding Self-Doubt and Stagnation - Diet culture has always been incredibly good at reinventing itself.The language, the trends, the products change. But the message underneath rarely does: Control your hunger, your body, yourself. Take up less space. If you can just become smaller, life will finally begin. Twenty years ago, these messages were delivered through glossy magazine covers and popular celebrity diets. Today they reach us through viral videos and via algorithms. Open any social media app and you're hit with "What I eat in a day" posts, body checks, SkinnyTok content, and videos about GLP-1 medications from influencers who have turned becoming smaller into an entire personality.... (read more)
Diet Culture Rebel Podcast
Can You Love Fitness But Hate Fitness Culture? Ep. 275 - It can be hard to love movement when fitness spaces are filled with anti-fat bias, weight stigma, and diet culture messages telling you that you need to look a certain way to belong. Maybe you’ve felt like you don’t belong in a gym. Maybe you’ve developed resistance around working out, even though part of you genuinely wants to move your body. Or maybe you’ve gotten stuck exercising mostly to control your body size, while guilt, shame, or body checking have made it harder to actually enjoy movement.
Wendy Welsher and Bonnie Roney talk about how to find a love for fitness and build a healthier relationship with movement. Wendy shares her own experiences with weight stigma, anti-fat bias, diet culture, and eating disorder recovery, and how she created a safe fitness space for people who have felt excluded or harmed by traditional fitness environments. Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
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Strength Belongs to Everyone - In August 2022, a friend called with an opportunity that would end up changing my life.
She was buzzing about an email she’d received from Aimee Everett's all-women weightlifting camp in New Orleans. Later she told me that when she opened the invitation, she quickly started thinking, "Who would go with me?" Almost immediately, she picked up the phone to call me ... (read more)
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How I Fuel My Weightlifting - Wendy Welsher has a lot going on. She’s a weightlifter and the founder and owner of My JAMM (Joyous Adaptive Momentous Movement), a functional strength and conditioning coaching business that specializes in working with underrepresented communities. To fuel herself well, Welsher prioritizes protein, hydration, and intuitive eating, which complements her recovery from an eating disorder and management of her ADHD.
“Food is meant to be enjoyed, and it’s also there to fuel my body,” Welsher, 51, tells Embody. ... (read more)
Ep: #173: Trust with Special Guest Wendy Welsher - Trust is the knowing that our bodies are living intelligences, giving us immediate feedback about what does and doesn’t work for us. When we stop viewing our bodies as something we need to control and manipulate, we can begin seeing them as very wise teachers. When we start to trust our bodies, we can listen and understand what they need.
Ep #65: Let's talk about diet culture, body positivity, and strength training in menopausal women with Wendy - In this episode we are talking with Wendy, a local personal trainer and competitive athlete who is big in the educational space when it comes to size inclusion. Topics like diet culture, fatphobia, weight bias, and advocating for yourself.
It's Working Out - A personal trainer can make your time at the gym more efficient and enjoyable. We asked five trainers to share their fitness philosophies and debunk some myths about the field.
Out of the Ashes of Joyn Comes JIM: Joyful Inclusive Movement - The fitness industry isn’t always kind to bigger people. Until recently, companies making products and services to help you enjoy movement weren’t thinking about inclusivity. That’s changing, though for every brand that embraces its larger customers, there’s one that doesn’t meet its potential, like the Nike-backed body-inclusive fitness platform Joyn, which shuttered last year. The end of Joyn brings us a new platform: Joyful Inclusive Movement, a.k.a. JIM.
The 6 Best Mini-Bands for People With Larger Bodies, According to Personal Trainers - Mini-bands can be an awesome addition to anyone’s workout gear stash: They’re portable, versatile, scalable to different fitness levels, and great for cranking up the intensity of bodyweight exercises.
To the Finish - Despite the rise in gluten-free trends, seven-day juice cleanses and other popular diets, for many, weight and body perception remain a constant struggle. And, too often, the thought of stepping into a gym filled with fit men and women decked out in neon-colored attire is intimidating enough to keep the pounds hidden and excuses active. For Wendy Welsher, her tipping point appeared in the form of a 300-pound reality check.
If You’re Mad That a Fitness Instructor Isn’t Skinny, Kindly Get a Grip - At the end of September, Peloton announced its latest lineup of instructors—something they’ve done numerous times before. But this time, one of those instructors got a lot of extra attention. Soon after the initial social posts, Peloton’s newest rowing instructor, Ash Pryor, spoke up about what she called an “overwhelming” number of “disgusting fat-shaming comments” directed at her in response to the news.
