This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen Rider.

Hey friends, in this episode I'm chatting with my friend and co-host Christine Bailey and as we usually do on the show she and I are talking about what we wrote this week

Christine shared about a pretty significant milestone for her last summer when she was on a houseboat with some friends at the lake.

From it, she started facing her body images head on.

Here, she talks more about simple but not always easy ways to overcome negative body

image issues which I think a lot of us can relate to. And then this week I hit

publish on something that felt pretty vulnerable to me. I'm sharing with you all how I'm going on

sabbatical next month. In July, yep. It feels pretty vulnerable because our productivity

obsessed world is a Petri dish for all sorts of

limiting beliefs about why we shouldn't or couldn't take something like a sabbatical

from our work. So in this chat I talk about how I've grown to overcome some of that thinking this year,

plus some practicals of how I'm making it happen, and my game plan for what I'll be doing on my sabbatical.

Hint, I won't be working, but I also won't be doing nothing. Okay, so let's get right into this

episode. Here's Christine sharing her wisdom about overcoming a negative body image.

All right, Christine, you wrote this week

about kind of a body image manifest,

so tell me more of what you're thinking in this department.

Yeah, so my post this week, it was a pretty vulnerable one for me.

I kind of dove into the topic of body image and how I have struggled pretty much my whole life since about fourth grade with this particular issue.

And about for the past 15 years, I've been on an ongoing journey of just healing

from just the lifetime of body image issues.

So I've done a lot of hard intentional work

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