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HOW TO ACTUALLY LOVE YOUR BODY.

Welcome to episode 4 of the Free Spirit Academy podcast, How to Actually Love Your Body.

This episode is gonna be a little different in that I'm not interviewing anyone, rather I'm gonna be talking about my perspective on self-acceptance and body love. The common experience I see is that we believe we need to DO something to be self loving or to love our bodies. Like, we have this deep sense that life in a body you love is a beautiful thing and we're right...but then we think we need to make a change or lose the weight in order to feel that beauty. I disagree. Can we have preferences for the way our body looks? Sure. But if we're pushing, forcing, molding, restricting, and dissaproving of our body ON THE WAY to a body we assume we'll love, it won't be sustainable. Because even if we do manage to willpower our way through a weight loss program, there will be a constant underlying fear that we'll end up back in that awful self-loathing place if we don't keep the weight off.

Today's episode is for you if you have been on diet after diet, spent a huge chunk of your energy trying to "fix" yourself, constantly compare yourself and your body with other women, hide in your clothes, and perhaps feel that everything will be "alright" once you lose the weight. Or perhaps you're part of the intuitive eating and body positive communities. Perhaps you've given up dieting and tried desperately to accept your body and it just. isn't. happening. You look in the mirror and try to love the cellulite but all you get is tears. Perhaps you feel like you SHOULD love your body if you're a good feminist or truly body positive. Maybe you've told yourself over and over that your body is amazing because it WALKS and GIVES BIRTH and ON AND ON...but you just don't feel it. NOT loving your body is just one more thing you feel like you're doing wrong.

Let me assure you, you're doing nothing wrong. There are no wrongs steps on the journey to body freedom, just steps that feel good and ones that don't. Steps that get us closer to being who we truly are and steps that shift us further from that experience.

Links mentioned:

Body Love full course. 

Free Spirit Academy website.

Free Spirit Academy courses.

Free Spirit Academy Facebook group.