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.

This episode is part of our Best of Mary's Cup of Tea series where I dug through over 250 recordings.

It was quite an undertaking to compile a cornucopia of some of my favorite conversations,

as well as honest reflections from my own self-love journey. We'll cover topics surrounding self-love, of course, including body image, which is the focus of today. We covered

disordered eating in last week's episode. We'll also dive into mental health, mindset, confidence,

relationships, and women's empowerment as a whole. I hope this series can be like a self-love

starter kit for you. If you're new here, welcome. Or a little refresher if you're a seasoned self-lover.

I'm so happy you're here. If something speaks to you and you want to dive deeper, you can find links

to the original episodes in the show notes. Today's topic is loving yourself beyond your body.

So let's unpack beauty standards, the nuances between body love, chronic pain, and the pursuit of

health, body shame in the bedroom, like when you're naked. And at the end, you'll hear my

personal advice on how to deal with weight gain. But let's pick up where we left off last week

on the link between disordered eating and your relationship with your body. Here let's pick up where we left off last week on the link between

disordered eating and your relationship with your body. Here is anti-diet weight-inclusive nutritionist,

Abby Atwood. The outcome of learning to eat in a way that is not in response to all of these

rules that we're taught around what is good, what is bad, what is healthy, what is

unhealthy, learning to do that, honoring our hunger, honoring our desires and pleasures with food,

and reducing the stress that we experience around feeding ourselves, which ultimately

requires that we disentangle the obsession we have with our body, right?

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