Being body positive on the surface the messages you have to love yourself as you are so there is no need to change

That was really hard for me because I went from strictly dieting and then moving into the intuitive eating anti-d diet space and then very judgmental towards anyone that was participating in quote unquote diet culture.

If I'm still in judgment, I just change the judgment from my body to now the

industry. Does that really offer me more peace? Hello, welcome back to the In Source Podcast.

My name is Ashley Molstead and I'll be your host in today's episode.

Today I want to dive into something that's kind of come up several times for me over the years and in fact before

Just a couple years ago before I launched the podcast I launched a course called

body positive badass and it came up recently in a one-on-one session with a client

this week about body positivity and how she's really struggling

with it because she can't seem to wrap her brain around the idea that she would love her body or love the way that it looks, right?

And so she kind of asked my opinion on, I'm struggling with body positivity,

like where do you stand on it?

And it's so interesting because I actually,

if you guys have followed my journey,

you probably heard me talk about

that I used to be a serial dieter. I spent years and years

and years hating my body and doing every diet under the sun trying to find the

solution that would basically make me love myself. I did not know that's what I was searching for. I thought I was searching for six-pack abs.

What I was actually searching for was peace and acceptance of who I am. And it was so much easier for me to say

that I'm unhappy because of my body.

Or I'm not as successful because of my body.

Or I'm not worthy of love because of my body.

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