Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jilkovsky. I'm an author,

speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love

yourself. Hello, my self-lovers. Welcome to another episode. Today, we're diving into a big topic that can often feel so heavy because it's just infused with a lot of shame and it's probably something we're not as open to talking about. And that is body shame in the bedroom. What that feels like, how

discouraging it can feel, and hopefully by the end of this episode, you'll walk away with some

tools to help you conquer the body shame in the bedroom when it comes to dating, intimacy, having sex, relationships,

all of that. So just a couple of notes before we dive in. Firstly, this is an 18 plus episode.

I have the explicit warning on all my episodes actually because you never know what's going to

come out of my mouth. So I think everything should be considered 18 plus on Mary's cup of tea.

But this one especially.

Also, I would like to acknowledge my thin privilege and that this episode is coming from

my own personal experience.

And my own experience is being in a body that's even at

my highest weight was and is considered quote unquote socially acceptable. So I meet a lot of

beauty standards and there are aspects of body image and oppression that I do not

understand. And as much as I wish that I could speak more on that, and of course I can do research

and educate myself as much as possible, I don't think it would be right for me to try to talk about it as if I'm an

expert. So I do have a book recommendation if that's you, if you're living in a marginalized

body, whether that's a bigger body or you're a person of color, or you just feel like you

don't really, really, really don't fit into the beauty standard.

And it's perhaps not all in your head, but rather a big part of it is external societal forces

that are quite literally making you feel like shit.

And that is a very real experience.

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