E9 : Shit Sandwich

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It’s easy to be sunny when everything is coming up for Natalie and Sam. But how about those periods when things are not looking so great? Like, say, when the world is experiencing a pandemic and you’ve been in lockdown for practically a year? For the fatties, looking on the bright side has been a learned art (and one they’re still mastering). In this episode, the ladies talk about surviving a culture of fear, doubt, and insecurity and developing skills for seeing the good without losing integrity or getting into ‘toxic positivity’. Hear them share about how parenting books have helped them self-parent, why acknowledging one's shadow side is important, and how the school of life has given them tools to survive just about anything.

Episode Glossary
Shit Sandwich: something highly undesirable made more palatable by attempting to surround it with more tolerable things.
Beaches: 1988 American comedy-drama film starring Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, Mayim Bialik and John Heard. Essential viewing.
Katniss Everdeen: protagonist of The Hunger Games trilogy and known for being a keen archer.
Dick Pouch: From E8 (Cheetah Print) a dick pouch is the empty ‘pouch’ left behind when fat teen girls substitute jeans with mens sizes.
Who’s the Boss?: a US sitcom television series starring Tony Danza, Judith Light and Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro and Katherine Helmond that aired from 1984 to 1992.
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen...And Listen So Kids Will Talk: Child-rearing bible that Natalie enjoyed as light reading in her 20s.
Holly Dolke: the YouTube Fitness influencer who Natalie may never ever end up watching.

* Sam’s Mum pre-listens to each episode where she gets a mention. She’s of course a big fan of the show and wants you all to know that it was a bow and arrow (not a crossbow) and they did not buy it especially, it was found on their property, lol. She is jazzed that the apocalypse has not come, yet.