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Body image care beyond the scale.
Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen treats body image as something shaped by culture, health systems, aging, family stories, and survival strategies. Its conversations move gently from personal experience toward practical language for living beyond shame and weight-centered rules.
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Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen is a body image and anti-diet interview show with a calm, humane rhythm. It treats shame as learned, reinforced, and deeply contextual. The show returns often to the gap between what people are told their bodies should be and what their bodies actually need. Recent episodes focus on aging, body relationship work, diabetes, wellness misinformation, and fitness goals that do not rely on weight loss. The conversations are gentle, but they are not vague. A discussion with Ivy Felicia lingers on the body changes that come with age, the messages people absorb about staying strong and mobile, and the complicated feeling of recognizing a parent in one's own face. That same conversation also names ableism and the fear of losing health as forces that can quietly shape body image. With Jessica Jones, the show brings a weight-inclusive lens to prediabetes, diabetes, blood sugar, hormones, perimenopause, menopause, and common advice about cutting carbohydrates. The point is not to dismiss health concerns. It is to separate care from panic, stigma, and overly simple rules. Episodes with Deb Benfield and Louise Green extend that work into pro-aging perspectives and weight-neutral fitness. Christy Harrison's appearance adds a skeptical look at wellness culture and the claims that spread through social media. Jessi Kneeland's episode frames body image struggles as something more complex than a thinking problem, which fits the show's larger pattern. It keeps asking what a body preoccupation is protecting, managing, or trying to solve. The show can be practical. It also makes room for ambivalence. That combination gives it a distinctive softness and usefulness. Rather than pushing confidence as a performance, it normalizes slow repair, changing needs, and bodies that do not fit cultural scripts. It is best for listeners who want body image support that respects emotional history as much as health information. The show is described in a recent episode as on hiatus, with a large back catalog still available.
Made for: This show is for listeners working through body shame, diet culture, aging anxiety, health fears, or a strained relationship with movement and food. It also fits coaches, counselors, and practitioners looking for weight-inclusive language grounded in lived experience.
What sets it apart: Eat the Rules stands apart by pairing intimate personal reflection with anti-diet, weight-inclusive education. Its strongest episodes slow down the emotional mechanics of body image instead of rushing toward affirmations or one-size-fits-all advice.
Eat the Rules is dedicated to empowering you to break free of societal standards, body shame and live life beyond the scale. Summer interviews the leading experts in body image, the anti-diet movement, self-help and intersectional feminism, covering a range of topics that include: body positivity, size acceptance, fat positivity, self-worth, self-esteem, intuitive eating and eating disorder recovery, health at every size and positive psychology. Summer also gives practical advice and shares personal experiences to help you accept your body and break free of diet culture. Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth and confidence and is the best-sel…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Summer Innanen connects body image, bodily trust and health decisions through pointed questions, practical examples and candid guest conversations.
Summer Innanen treats body image as a daily negotiation shaped by health fears, ageing, self-worth and the pressure to measure the body. She moves between solo guidance and guest conversations, usually starting with a familiar rule and asking what happens when it overrides a…
The bathroom scale gets demoted from oracle to scrap metal, and you get your morning back.
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Graduates connect body-image training with lived experience, client work, and steadier confidence around familiar language.
The spring graduates of the Body Image Coach Certification give this review its shape: body-image work can feel more usable when structured training is paired with lived experience.
A candid review of aging, ability, and the body stories that shape self-worth.
Eat the Rules #323 places aging inside a broader conversation about body image, self-worth, chronic illness, mobility, and the pressure to remain strong.
Summer Innanen and Jessica Jones question familiar advice about weight, carbs and blood sugar.
Weight loss and cutting out carbs often come up in advice about prediabetes and diabetes. Summer Innanen and weight-inclusive registered dietitian Jessica Jones examine both ideas in this episode.
Mara Glatzel gives needs and wants a clear, practical distinction that makes self-advocacy feel more reachable.
Needs are the throughline here, with Mara Glatzel framing them as basic requirements for living well in relationship with oneself and with other people.
A candid case for stepping away from the numbers that can steer eating, mood, and self-worth.
Weight scales and tracking devices come under sharp scrutiny in this installment of Eat the Rules. Summer draws on Instagram followers' accounts and her own history with these tools to show how a number can drown out bodily signals, shape food choices, and turn an ordinary…
Spiritual balance meets ordinary life.
Warm wellness for body, voice, and spirit.
Summer Innanen interviews Jesse Neeland about why body image struggles are not a thinking problem, exploring deeper psychological roots.
Summer Innanen interviews Christy Harrison about the cultural obsession with wellness and how to avoid the wellness trap.
Summer Innanen interviews Deb Benfield about internalized ageism and embracing aging in the context of diet and wellness culture.
Summer Innanen interviews Louise Green about New Year's resolutions, fitness goals, and body image from a weight-neutral perspective.
Summer Innanen’s Eat the Rules episode #242 argues that scales, measuring tapes, jeans checks, and Fitbits can distort body image by making a number feel like authority.
Summer Innanen talks with Mara Glatzel, author of Needy, about moving from self-abandonment to self-partnership, radical self-care, and self-advocacy.
The certification helped Raven Iman stop treating her body like the problem and name “the culture and society” as the problem.
Summer Innanen says tinnitus forced her to accept "a permanent part of my life now."
Eat the Rules episode 323 pairs Summer Inanen with Ivy Felicia for a two-part conversation about aging body changes, internalized messages, and what shifts after 40.
Jessica Jones explains that prediabetes corresponds to an A1C of 5.7 to 6.4, while diabetes is typically classified at 6.5 or higher.