213 - Why We Think We’re Not Enough: The Truth About Body Image, Confidence, and Learning to Love Yourself
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
How you feel about your body can shape your entire life—and in this episode, we’re diving deep into the truth about body image, self-worth, and the journey to self-acceptance.
In this deeply personal conversation on Life Happens with Barb and Michelle, we open up about how harmful messages around appearance take root, how they impact our confidence, and what it really takes to unlearn them. From childhood memories and cultural pressure to the struggle of believing compliments and chasing “enoughness,” we explore the path from self-criticism to compassion—one thought at a time.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why self-worth can’t come from outside validation
- How body image issues start early and get reinforced by society
- Why “you matter” is more than just a nice phrase
- Barb’s story of success, bulimia, and finding real healing
- The difference between body positivity, neutrality, and appreciation
- Tips to stop body-shaming yourself and start practicing self-kindness
This episode is filled with truth, tools, and a reminder that being human means you already matter—just as you are.
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We’re so grateful you’re here with us. As a mother-daughter duo, we’re passionate about having honest conversations about the struggles we all face—and the healing that’s possible when we start from within.
This July, we’re diving deep into confidence, self-worth, self-advocacy, and purpose—beginning with the relationship we have with our bodies. In this episode, we’re unpacking how early experiences and cultural messages shape our self-image, why external validation never fills the void, and how to reclaim your worth one kind thought at a time.
We're challenging the beliefs that tell us we have to look a certain way to be enough. Because you are enough—just as you are. It's time to shift the story, appreciate your body, and start living like you truly matter.
Join us next Tuesday for another heartfelt and healing episode of Life Happens with Barb Michelle! 💕
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Mom and hi everyone. Welcome back to Life Happens podcast. I'm, as always, so excited to be chatting with you today, Mom. And this week we have a really, you know, great conversation, a great topic. As always, I think we say that with every show. But this is a topic that's up for us a lot, up for you and me a lot, up for people a lot. |
| 0:23.0 | I know you get a lot of comments and DMs from people about this. |
| 0:27.1 | And so, you know, we wanted to dive into it a little deeper, share what we've been learning |
| 0:31.9 | and the insights that we've picked up in our lived experiences and, you know, have that chat about it. So I'm really |
| 0:40.0 | excited. So my. It's, it's something that affects our lives every single day. Yeah. |
| 0:46.6 | And I love that we talk about this often on the show because it's something that I feel |
| 0:51.3 | very strongly about that if we can actually get to the root |
| 0:54.6 | and learn to manage this in a way that it doesn't really affect us from the inside out, |
| 1:02.8 | it's magical. And it really has the opportunity to transform our lives in a way where we can |
| 1:06.9 | have the success and the happiness and all the things that we're looking for. |
| 1:10.1 | So, yes, this is a topic that we talk about often and it's going to be good. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah. So with the show and with our work in general, we often reference the concept of becoming your own best friend. |
| 1:26.4 | You know, that's kind of our, or that's become like my ethos, |
| 1:29.1 | at least, of what it means to live a happy life or a successful life is really starting to |
| 1:35.6 | be your friend. And we talk about self-love and self-care and you talk about self-worth a bunch. |
| 1:43.1 | And what it means to cultivate these feelings for |
| 1:48.3 | ourselves so that we can walk through our own personal lives feeling confident and secure |
| 1:56.4 | and just knowing that we matter. I think when I think so much about what you share in social media, |
| 2:02.6 | it's like so much that you, you, you, or you, anyone watching or listening or on social media matter. |
| 2:10.9 | We all matter. |
| 2:12.8 | And so I think today's conversation and what we really want to dive into is thinking about that |
| 2:21.4 | and knowing that that's true, how can we start to chip away at the critical thoughts and the |
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