The Self-Care Creature Podcast | Season 2, Episode 006| Becoming A Freedom Conduit

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Welcome to season 2 of the podcast where we are having candid conversations. Open, honest, vulnerable conversations from people, Friends, and clients that I admire. Our intention here is to educate and empower you! These episodes are unscripted, recorded live, and in this episode I'm diving in with my guest James Rose, actor and writer. We discuss antidotes to thin culture in the wellness industry, trauma-informed yoga, and James's experience with COVID-19.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:​

• Who James is and how the pandemic played a part in the community he has built on Instagram
• How James got his start on Instagram and built his unique presence
• Why a tiny platform is just as impactful as a large one and why the movement of micro-influencers is growing
• How James ensures he holds an authentic space online and learned to stop comparing himself to other influencers
• The growing pains of creating boundaries on social media
• What we look for in the influencers that we follow and how the events of 2020 caused us to pare down the people we follow
• Being a conscious consumer of products and personalities
• The body positivity movement and its influence on social media
• Why James chose to follow influencers who allowed him to challenge himself and his mindset
• How James found his unique voice on social media and decided to share personal details about his experience in the gay community that no one else acknowledged
• The lack of mentors in the queer community and the inception of “community mentoring”
• The tight-knit and trustworthy community of sex workers and its overlap with the queer community
• Trauma-informed yoga and how James was introduced to it
• The influence of Sophia Holly (@blissfulembodiment) on James, and her unique take on providing a space for allowing healing through movement
• Why healing is never done alone and how James recovered from his own traumas
• What I learned from my own training in trauma-informed yoga
• Susanna Barkataki (@susannabarkataki) and the concept of decolonizing yoga
• Finding antidotes to diet and thinness culture
• Strength and health at every size, and dismantling the notion that fit people look one specific way
• The overlap of body shaming in the fitness and queer community
• How the opportunity to teach in a wellness space has allowed James to be the conduit to allowing someone freedom in their own body
• James’ experience with COVID-19 and its longstanding effects on his health
• The support of We Are Body Politic (@wearebodypolitic)and its part in James’ recovery from COVID-19
• How the pandemic has highlighted a lack of community care and the ongoing toxicity of denial in the wellness community
• Why the way to love and light is through the dark
• Decolonizing movement and allowing people to find joy in their imperfect fitness journey

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