This podcast, conducted as conversations between the host and her guests offers an absolutely unique and revelatory take on how we (especially women) live in our bodies: hating them, feeding them, starving them, moving and not moving in them, and learning how deeply influenced we’ve been through millennia by patriarchy to look a certain way: mostly smaller - and thus being made smaller and unthreatening in all ways. Though the show is not overtly political, it can’t help but be because I’ve learned from it that my lifelong antagonistic relationship to my body was not because I was “bad” and “undisciplined” but the result of outside influences I could not have possibly escaped. Now, at 65, I am liberated by these conversations and the astute questions the host, Cadence Dubus, asks of her guests, all accomplished women - many of whom are women of color - who have contributed through books and activism to enabling women like me to see ourselves in a completely different and wholly empowering way. Why DID I struggle to look like I did before having a baby AFTER I’d had a baby? What was wrong with looking like a woman who’d miraculously made a human being with her body? It was something, for instance, that I’d never thought of until now, and certainly not when I returned to my desperate Bulimic self hunched over a toilet at the age of 24 as a new mother who was nursing an infant! This podcast, along with a subscription to Ms. Dubus’ Substack newsletter are indispensable for all who struggle with body issues and eating disorders and those seeking to find a consistent means of moving for their physical and mental health. Again, I’m 65 and just now forgiving myself for years of struggle and self-flagellation and looking ahead, now, to nurturing and embracing my body with joy and gratitude - all from how much I’ve learned listening to these conversations, reading Ms. Dubus’ newsletter, and engaging in Ms. Dubus’ classes that are virtual, so can reach anyone anywhere.