My name is Ronit and it’s my pleasure to introduce The Body Myth podcast which features conversations with women about their relationship to their bodies, when they first began judging themselves, how self-surveillance has impacted their lives, and what they’ve come to understand about their bodies and the world. These interviews have opened my eyes even more to how universal body judgment seems to be among Western women and how much time we spend denigrating ourselves. Each episode of The Body Myth explores how we got here, why our size and shape has nothing to do with happiness, and what we can do to find body peace. I am so excited to bring you this show and the first two episodes which launch on March 22, 2022. Be sure and hit the subscribe button now so you don’t miss episodes one and two when they drop.   Ronit is a writer, teacher, and mom who has taught elementary school through high school and whose writing has been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, Salon, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, Scary Mommy, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about her body image struggles and the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was named Finalist in both the 2021 Best Book Awards and the 2021 Book of the Year Award and a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022. She is also host and producer of the podcasts And Then Everything Changed and Let’s Talk Memoir.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com   Have a body image story you’d like Ronit to read on air or want to take the Your Body and the World survey? Follow this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZiXP1FklUkWaYg4T6IAqFKDRp6OIvef4be8SRHVaaWt044w/viewform Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates:   Follow Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank   Photo credit: Baran Lotfollahi on Unsplash Theme music: The Lighthouse by Sounds Like Sander