Food, Bodies, Periods, and...Our Dogs with Karoline May

The Body Competence Podcast

In this episode, Michelle is joined by Karoline (she/her) from Dog Mom Mentality to talk about food, bodies, periods, and of course, our dogs. Karoline is the creator of the Dog Mom Mentality brand: a community of dog owners, a podcast, merch line, and a journal all designed to support and empower dog owners through their own mental health and training journeys. It all started in 2020 with an Australian Shepherd mix named Layla who became Karoline’s invitation to healing.

When her husband brought home Layla, Karoline’s anxiety was immensely triggered by Layla’s reactivity and behavioral issues. She quickly took to the internet to share the lessons that came from training her dog – from setting boundaries, to sharpening her communication skills, to building up her self-confidence.

Today, Karoline’s platform focuses on motivating and empowering other dog owners to build their confidence and relationship with their dogs through training, play, mental health advocacy, and exploring.
Connect with Karoline on Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and on her website.

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The Body Competence Podcast explores what it means to be and raise body competent humans. In each episode Michelle and her guests talk about getting back in touch with our needs, wants, and desires that were suppressed by the power hierarchies of patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, anti-fat bias, ableism, and even our own families.
Michelle navigates topics like body positivity, body neutrality, cycle breaking, food neutrality and so much more. This podcast is for you if you are a human or parent trying to imagine a future without diet culture and other toxic intergenerational cycles but aren’t quite sure where to begin.
Find Michelle on Instagram @foodbodiesfamilies.
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