You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. This is episode 534. Happy Valentine's Day!

If you listen live, this is Valentine's Day, and whether you have a Valentine or not, you are loved. Please know that.

You are so immensely loved, and I know there are seasons of life, and certain days it doesn't feel like that.

I want you to know this. The God of the Universe, the King who created everything, created you, and he called you his masterpiece.

You're amazing. You are loved. You are more than loved. You are delighted. If you haven't read my newest book Straight in Your Crown, you'll hear all about what I believe love feels like, and that the love of God is beyond just feeling loved.

It's what it feels like to be delighted as a child of God.

If you want some pep in yourself, do head to Amazon or my website to find that book Straight in Your Crown, but I'll link it in the show notes for you.

Let's talk about a different way to love. I want you to love food. I want you to love food. I want you to love your body.

I want you to know it's not an either or. It's a both and. Do you ever find yourself having unhealthy thoughts or feelings about food and body image?

Do you feel like you're constantly making decisions that aren't in your best interest when it comes to food and exercise?

If so, this is the perfect podcast episode for you. In this episode, I'm going to talk about how to have a healthy mindset around food and body image, no matter what your background has been.

No, my story is dicey with this. I had over a 15 year long struggle with an eating disorder with body image all hidden at elite division one full scholarship athletic level of of my sport and hit it from the world because

well, that's what perfection is to write type A. We need to pretend that there are no problems in my friends on the outside. I had a great life on the inside. I was emotionally distraught anxious beyond anything and felt imprisoned and fearful in almost every element of my life.

I can remember actually looking at other people and other athletes and sometimes men are just naturally more thin women and I thought you're not thinking about what you're going to eat today.

I remember being mesmerized by thinking, well, you probably had breakfast and you're going to have a snack and you're going to have lunch and you won't have any anxiety about any of it or even think about it.

And it was such a far fetched concept to me that someone could walk through the world with freedom.

Because I learned how to die when I was 10. I get obsessed with it secretly when I was in my in middle school years and I blamed a lot of my lack of athletic achievement on the fact that I wasn't quote unquote skinny enough.

And so I found myself in a cycle of never being good enough, always being disappointed myself, always white knuckling and doing doing more.

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