Episode 5: How and Why I Stopped Hating My Body (The Hardest Thing For Me To Talk About)

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Cara Alwill

Girlboss, Confidence, Selfimprovement, Positivethoughts, Education, Self-improvement, Personaldevelopment, Raiseyourvibration, Bosslady, Motivation, Girlpower, Lifecoach, Entrepreneurship, Empoweringwomen, Liveyourbestlife, Mindfulness, Selfhelp, Manifestation, Business, Inspiration, Inspiring

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🗓️ 11 February 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Cara shares a very raw and real side of her personal struggles with her weight and body image. From disordered eating, to toxic habits, she divulges what it has been like to hate her body for most of her life. Cara has finally overcome that challenge, and is now working to not just accept her body but truly celebrate it. She shares the strategies and mindset shifts that have helped her along the way, and hopes this episode will help any woman struggling with this topic to feel less alone and more empowered in her body and mind.

The video mentioned in this episode: https://thescene.com/watch/presents/best-friends-get-brutally-honest-about-their-bodies

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0:00.0	Welcome to Style Your Mind, a podcast for women who want to design their thoughts, empower themselves, and build a beautiful life.
0:09.0	I'm your host, Kara Al-Waleba, best-selling author and master life coach.
0:13.8	I am obsessed with women on the edge of change, and I've worked with hundreds of those women all around the world to help them unlock the best
0:21.5	version of themselves and fulfill their potential. If you're ready to style your mind and transform
0:27.2	your life, then you're in the right place. Let's do this.
0:36.7	Hi guys and welcome back to style Your Mind. I wanted to do a sort of follow-up to the babe chat that I had with Felicity Hayward the other day. And if you didn't listen to it yet, please go ahead and check that episode out because it's really powerful. I talked to Felicity about her experience as a model, specifically a plus
0:56.1	sized model in a world that I feel is kind of slowly waking up and slowly beginning to accept
1:03.9	and celebrate women of all shapes and sizes. And for me, it's a journey that I have personally
1:10.2	been on for as long as I can remember.
1:13.3	I mean, learning how to be okay with my body and learning how to accept the fact that I didn't get the body that I want.
1:22.5	Okay?
1:22.8	I think it's fair to put that out there.
1:24.5	That's probably the first time, actually, that I've ever said that out loud. I don't have the body that I really desire. And I tried for so long to get that
1:34.3	body. I have tried everything under the sun. I've literally been on probably every single
1:39.6	diet that you can imagine. I have starved myself. I have dealt with, I mean, I don't want to use the word
1:47.4	eating disorder because I don't really know if I ever had one, but I can tell you that for a long
1:51.6	time in my teens in high school, I would go an entire day or two without eating and get headaches
1:58.3	so bad that I would have to take Tylenol just to deal with it.
2:02.2	I mean, I've gone from, you know, chewing food and spitting it out, like starving myself,
2:07.8	overeating, binge eating, obsessing over my weight, weighing myself 10, 20 times a day.
2:15.2	I mean, it's been a real problem for me.
2:20.0	And I have gotten through the years much more comfortable with my body, much more comfortable with my relationship with my body
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