Hi there, you're listening to the Lazy Genius Podcast. I'm Kendra Adachi and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't.

Today is episode 301, how to kindly navigate a changing body.

First I want to say words to the handful of men who listen to this episode. I encourage you to listen.

Maybe this is not a huge issue for you, but it likely is for the women in your life, for your wife or your sister or your daughter or your friend.

I just want you to listen to this episode so you can get a more comprehensive understanding of what it means to be a woman with a body in the Western world.

Now if you are new here and you got sent this episode, you might be a little worried. Like you don't know me, you don't know what I'm going to say.

So first welcome. Second, this episode isn't about how to kindly change your body.

It's about kindly navigating the fact that your body is changing and those are two very, very different things.

And in some ways, navigating is harder. Like it's less clear, right?

Now changing our bodies, we understand what that means. It's a huge industry. There is no deficit of information for that process.

But navigating the fact that change happens and then what we do with that, that's a little trickier.

So today's episode is clothed in kindness because it needs it.

Our bodies, they are present with us all the time. And yet we often have such strange, sometimes even contentious relationships with them.

So I want to relax that tension today and how we talk about changing bodies because my guess is you're already hard enough on yourself about it.

And I for sure I'm not going to add an ounce to that. So if you are new, welcome. And I hope that this is a kind and safe place for you.

Now before we jump in, we have done a handful of episodes about bodies over the years.

So you can find those in the show notes will also have a body playlist in the next issue of the latest lazy listens, the biweekly recap and resource guide for the podcast.

It's emailed out every other Friday. So if you would like to get any extra words or resources about this episode or any of the episodes, you can sign up at the link in the show notes or at the lazy jeans collective.com slash listens.

Speaking of listens, do you guys hear the dog in the background like the like the yappy dog? It's very angry and I have I have a deadline.

So I have to record even though the dog is yapping very angry really behind me. So if you can hear it. Super sorry if you can't. I'm so glad because she mad.

Okay, the very first thing I want to say out of the gate, listen up is that external solutions will not solve internal problems.

External solutions will not solve internal problems. We will for sure, you know, dive into this more, but it is rare that a changing body or your reaction to your changing body is only external.

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