The Body Grievers® Club

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 clothes that don't fit, she distinguishes physical discomfort from the emotional story, challenges the idea of "bad body image" as an internal fire alarm, and walks through curiosity, critical self-talk, triggers, "sexy permission," validating needs and capacity, embracing pleasure and living now, and realigning to values to bridge the head-to-heart disconnect. 
 
02:16 Why Steps Matter
05:15 Three Key Premises
08:41 Step One Get Curious
12:02 Step Two Reassess Talk
13:47 Step Three Find Triggers
15:22 Step Four Sexy Permission
19:44 Step Five Validate Needs
23:13 Step Six Embrace Joy
27:52 Step Seven Values Alignment
29:19 Body Trust and Wrap Up
 
EPISODE RESOURCES
Get your ebook "How To Rewrite Your Body Image Story" at http://bodyimagewithbri.com/offers/quLcwv48/checkout 
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*Bri's Free Resource: 7-Step Guide to Shift Body Grief to Radical Body Acceptance
https://www.bodyimagewithbri.com/seven-steps

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 recurrence risk. She describes moving through the stages of grief, the loss of feeling "invincible," and the physical and emotional impact of scars, numbness, and fear, while emphasizing that health-promoting behaviors don't prevent illness and genetics can override "doing everything right." 
 
06:35 From Diet Culture to Nutritionist
13:57 Healthy Yet Diagnosed
16:26 Mammogram Surprise Discovery
24:00 Treatment Decisions and Genetics
26:08 Body Grief After Mastectomy
30:41 Diagnosis Shock and Grief
32:27 Genetics vs Lifestyle Myths
38:34 Finding Meaning After Trauma
41:58 Rebuilding Body Trust
47:52 Listen to Your Symptoms


EPISODE RESOURCES
"What The Actual Fork?" episode 248: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intimacy-dating-and-body-image-with-bri-campos/id1505223001?i=1000692194382
 
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*Bri's Free Resource: 7-Step Guide to Shift Body Grief to Radical Body Acceptance
https://www.bodyimagewithbri.com/seven-steps

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 encourage listeners to get curious about what their body needs today—even if it's rest.
 
 
03:47 Somatic Healing And Body Image
07:18 Privilege Loss And Scarcity
09:58 Movement Shame And Pandemic
14:10 Finding Pilates In 2024
18:20 Rest Burnout And Ableism
26:31 Pilates As Home Base
28:44 Flexibility Over Urgency
31:11 Alignment And Strength
34:22 Finding The Right Studio
43:08 Healing Unsafe Feelings
45:15 Real Life Wins
 
 
EPISODE RESOURCES
Episode 19: Body Pain Is Not Punishment
Superfit Hero Athleisure wear https://superfithero.com/ 
 
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Online https://theempoweredtherapist.com/ 
 
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*Bri's Free Resource: 7-Step Guide to Shift Body Grief to Radical Body Acceptance
https://www.bodyimagewithbri.com/seven-steps

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 cover for body hatred, disordered eating, and orthorexic behaviors. They explore the head-to-heart disconnect, the survival brain's role, the impact of oppression and weight stigma, and how "diet hope" offers false security while body neutrality supports living life despite discomfort.
 
 
02:13 Zit Example and Identity
04:38 Orthorexia and Fitness Culture
08:31 Thought Experiments on Health
12:34 Food Shame and Healing
15:57 Moral vs Emotional Neutrality
24:08 Politics Systems and Dissonance
27:47 Head to Heart Disconnect
30:32 False Safety of Thinness
31:34 Patriarchy and Slenderness Trap
33:23 Signs of Body Neutrality
44:41 Beauty Standards and Power
45:41 Complicity and Conscious Choices
 
 
WANT MORE OF JESSI?
*Buy her book! Body Neutral
*Website: https://www.jessikneeland.com/ 
*Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessikneeland/ 
*Check out our episode on her podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-not-about-your-body-the-power-of-body-grief/id1581433799?i=1000602037792 



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*Bri's Free Resource: 7-Step Guide to Shift Body Grief to Radical Body Acceptance
https://www.bodyimagewithbri.com/seven-steps

In this episode of The Body Grievers® Club, Bri challenges the idea that confidence comes simply from "doing the thing," arguing that without thought awareness and body connection, change won't stick. She reframes confidence as self-assurance: not the absence of discomfort. Brie shares her history with dieting, bariatric surgery at 19, and the ongoing body image pain that persisted even at a smaller size, leading to a 2015 breaking point to start living her life. She discusses dating fears, fetishization, and values alignment. 


03:59 Health And Weight Loss Trap
05:18 Bariatric Surgery Reality
09:07 Breaking Point In 2015
12:11 Dating Fear And Fat Bias
14:40 Self Assurance Framework
15:04 Step One Self Talk Audit
15:41 Step Two Values Reality Test
17:16 Step Three Cement Chair Confidence
21:24 Step Four Trauma Informed Exposure
25:41 Living With Ongoing Body Grief
 
EPISODE RESOURCES
Episode 21: Bri's Body Image Breaking Point 


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*Website: https://bodyimagewithbri.com/
*Bri's Free Resource: 7-Step Guide to Shift Body Grief to Radical Body Acceptance
https://www.bodyimagewithbri.com/seven-steps