Body Image Triggers: Where They Come From & How To Find Healing – In Session with Marc David
The Psychology of Eating Podcast
Marc David
4.7 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Picture this:
You're trucking along your day – everything's going pretty well, when BOOM:
You see a picture of yourself, and you're instantly triggered.
"Is that really what I look like?" you ask yourself.
You can't believe your appearance. Maybe it's extra weight, or the shape of your hips or stomach.
But whatever it is – you feel your heart start to sink, and a crushing sadness races in.
Before you know it, you're spiraling into that incorporeal place made famous on Netflix's acclaimed series.
(And let's just say, it's not "The Good Place.")
Sound familiar?
Most of us have had the disconcerting experience of getting triggered around our weight or appearance. So in this episode, we take a special look at body image triggers, where they come from, and how to begin healing them.
You'll hear Marc David work with 41-year old Jen on her triggers with weight and body image.
While Jen is hungering for weight loss – she'd love to lose around 40 pounds – she comes to realize in working with Marc that there's something she'd like even more:
Being able to love and stand by herself, even if she's not yet at her goal weight.
Because Jen's body image triggers have been preventing her from so many things, such as:
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Taking photos of herself with loved ones.
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Role modeling a healthy body image to her daughters.
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Feeling confident in her own skin.
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Living in a state of freedom and joy.
Tired of feeling sad, afraid, and anxious about her weight, Jen is ready for a big shift … even if she's confused about how to get there.
While her wisdom, self-kindness, and high values have served her well so far, her body image triggers are clearly still blocking the way.
But one thing she's clear about? It's time to break the door down.
Nothing is going to stop Jen from doing the inner work she needs to do, so she can finally embrace herself – and the life she so deserves.
Listen in as Marc shares:
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How to understand the root causes behind your weight and body image triggers.
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Reframing the core negative beliefs and old traumas that are often at the root of body image challenges.
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How to recognize and shift how you speak to yourself about your body.
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A powerful exercise for learning to embrace your appearance.
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And much more…
Don't miss this remarkable eating psychology coaching session, where Marc lays out the path for all of us who are ready to release our body image triggers, and discover just how good life can be on the other side.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Psychology of Eating Podcast, where food and body challenges are the doorway into a happier, healthier life. |
| 0:11.3 | Now, here's your host, Eating Psychology Expert and founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. |
| 0:26.1 | Thank you. Institute for the Psychology of Eating, Mark David. Hi, everybody. I'm Mark David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. |
| 0:30.9 | We're in the Psychology of Eating podcast, and I'm with Jenny today. Welcome, Jenny. |
| 0:36.3 | Hi. Thanks for having me. Glad you're here. |
| 0:39.4 | Glad we're doing this. And just for anybody tuning in to the podcast for the first time, |
| 0:45.2 | Jenny and I are meeting for the first time. And we get to have a client coach session together |
| 0:51.0 | and see if we can do some good things. So Jenny, if you could wave your magic wand |
| 0:55.7 | and have whatever you wanted with food and body, what would that be for you? I think that I would |
| 1:02.9 | love to have a more consistent relationship with my food in the sense that I could not have my stressors control my menu and just be able to |
| 1:14.5 | have not my stress, debunk my motivation so that I can keep eating clean because I really |
| 1:21.9 | enjoy eating clean. I just realized that my triggers and my stressors obviously make me choose |
| 1:27.1 | meals that aren't as wise. |
| 1:29.4 | And I think for body wise, I would just, I just want to be not as large so that I can be more comfortable in my clothes and my skin and just feel good. |
| 1:43.6 | Feel good in my clothes and feel good and not feel so heavy. |
| 1:48.3 | Okay. So I think I think I got that. So you want to be able to make food choices that work for you. |
| 1:55.5 | That help take you where you want to go and not let things like stress or emotions just get in the way of making good choices |
| 2:02.6 | for yourself. Yeah. And you want to live in the kind of body where you feel lighter and you feel |
| 2:08.9 | better. Yeah. Okay. That's fair. So roughly how much weight would you like to lose? I think that I haven't been on a scale in a while. |
| 2:21.6 | So I'm thinking if it was to be where I think it might be at, |
| 2:26.2 | I think I would like to lose about 40 pounds. |
| 2:29.0 | You'd like to lose 40 pounds. |
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