216 - Quiet the Inner Critic: Healing Body Image and Reclaiming Your Confidence
Life Happens with Barb & Michelle
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Struggling with negative self-talk and body image issues? You’re not alone.
With diet culture, self-loathing, and unrealistic beauty standards woven into our feeds and conversations, we’re challenging the narrative and shifting toward self-acceptance and confidence from the inside out.
In this episode, we’re talking about how to quiet the inner critic, heal your relationship with your body, and begin reclaiming the confidence that diet culture, beauty standards, and perfectionism tried to take from you.
We’ll explore:
✨ Where the inner critic comes from
💭 How social media and cultural messages fuel self-doubt
🛠️ Practical tools to challenge toxic narratives and build self-compassion
💡 Why confidence is a practice, not a personality trait
Barb opens up about her healing journey from bulimia to self-love, and Michelle shares her experience navigating critical friendships and body insecurities. Together, we’re unpacking what it means to truly feel at home in your body and at peace with yourself.
💌 Want to quiet the self-criticism and build true confidence? This one’s for you.
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📢 Let us know in the comments what resonated most—we’d love to hear your story.
Episode Topics:
✨Healing body image by becoming your own best friend
✨Valuing your voice over external validation and judgment
✨Understanding the power of words—how you speak to yourself and others matters
✨Letting go of comparison and unrealistic beauty standards on social media
✨Supporting your child’s self-worth and confidence through mindful parenting
✨Navigating relationships with critical or unsupportive people
✨Practicing gratitude and celebrating your personal growth
You are your greatest companion in life—so choose to love, accept, and trust yourself every day.
We’re so grateful you’re here. As a mother-daughter duo, we’re passionate about having real, honest conversations around the challenges we all face—and the healing that begins from within.
This July, we’re diving deep into confidence, self-worth, self-advocacy, and purpose. In this episode, we unpack the harmful messages and behaviors that chip away at our self-confidence and body image.
We’ll explore how to begin healing the way you see yourself—shifting from self-judgment and comparison to inner validation, self-love, and acceptance that comes from within, not the outside world.
Join us next Tuesday for another heartfelt and healing episode of Life Happens with Barb Michelle! 💕
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| 0:59.6 | I'm so excited for today's episode. This is one of your favorites. You're a Q&A queen, and we |
| 1:05.9 | have a Q&A episode today for you all. I don't know if people know that about you that you love doing |
| 1:11.6 | Q's and Q&A, but you do. And we usually get some really good stuff out of you from Q&As. |
| 1:18.4 | So this should be a good episode. We're talking all about, you know, the theme of this month |
| 1:24.3 | with confidence, body positivity, managing our self-worth and self-respect. |
| 1:29.8 | And we got some really great questions from our listeners and viewers. |
| 1:34.0 | And I'm really excited to hear your interpretation of it. |
| 1:37.3 | I love Q&As. |
| 1:39.3 | And I like that you called me the Q&A queen. |
| 1:41.7 | I feel it. |
| 1:42.3 | That's very cool. |
| 1:43.3 | No, I love it so much because it's really interacting one-on-one, you know, with a human being out there asking me a question and asking us a question. It's very personal. And I love it. I love it. You know how much I love, you know, being in person with our workshops, our retreats, our lectures, even on social media, I feel like when anybody asked me a question in the DMs or in the comments, I love to answer back because |
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