Hi, hello. Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the self-love podcast for women. Though all self-lovers are welcome here. I'm Mary. I write and speak about self-love and I'm best known for my book, The Gift of Self-love, and I also host retreats for women. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself. Real quick, before we dive in, I want to make sure you know about my book, The Gift of Self-Love. It's a workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to love who you are. It's available anywhere books are sold. Thousands of people have it, love it, and have told me that it has greatly benefited their

self-love journey, and I hope it'll do the same for you. And now let's get into the podcast.

Hello, myself, lovers. Welcome to another episode of the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. Today,

we are doing an episode that might be difficult for you to hear,

but necessary for you to heal. Wow, I didn't even write that down. I just came up with that,

but it perfectly describes what this episode will be about, which is confronting a few

disordered habits that you're probably still

doing despite knowing better. So what I'm talking about is you've been in recovery for a while.

Maybe you're an eating disorder warrior, or maybe you're just on a path of unsubscribing from diet culture and learning to accept your body

and learning to love yourself as a whole. So wherever you're at on your journey, there are some

diet cultured habits slash behaviors and some things that we've been brainwashed to do subconsciously because of beauty standards

and fat phobia and all of that fun stuff that we know about.

But sometimes it's a little bit difficult to actually put it into practice, especially

these little pesky habits that we've been doing for so long,

like probably since childhood. So of course, it's going to take a little bit of time for us to

stop doing them, but the first step is to admit to ourselves that we're doing them.

And how this episode came up is I am actually doing a 10-week voice coaching program, and I'm

studying a technique called Fitzmorest's voice work.

It's a group class over Zoom.

And it's all about creating room in your body so that your voice has a place to reverberate.

I don't know if that makes any sense,

but it's basically about expanding the channels in your body.

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