So everybody, this episode has raw, real talk about disordered eating.

If that kind of talk heals you, listen up.

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in a safe place with safe people, please first take care of you.

Hi everybody, it's Glenin.

Thanks for coming back to We Can Do Hard Things.

Today we're going to get into some hard things about women and why so many of us seem to

be trapped in an endless war with our bodies.

I got this question a while back from Ann.

She said, gee, I'm struggling hard with food and body stuff, especially since quarantine.

I look to you for advice on most things, but I don't know if you can relate to this one.

You're so thin.

I just want to get to a place where I feel acceptance and love for my own body.

I felt so freed by untamed and I'm hoping you can help free me from my own body hate.

So Ann, I can.

I can relate.

I've struggled my entire life to be comfortable in my own skin, to understand my body, to

be as much me as my mind and my spirit.

As a girl in this culture, I learned to be desired, but not how to desire.

How to be wanted, but not how to want.

To care about what I looked like, more than I care about what I'm looking at.

I learned that my worthiness was in my appearance, in my outer beauty, in that to be beautiful,

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