[Fear Less] Go from BODY CRITICISM to body ACCEPTANCE
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today we dive into the topic of the fear of negative body appearance. Hosts Jessica Flint and Andrea Wells share strategies to overcome internal and external barriers that hinder body acceptance.
This episode explores the journey of embracing one's body and how it evolves over time. Listen to gain insights into changing your critical dialogue around your body and transitioning from self-criticism to self-acceptance. This episode also offers a compilation of expert perspectives on body acceptance and its role in the recovery process.
Key Topics:
- The fluctuating nature of self-acceptance and body image.
- Making peace with yourself and your body.
- Body acceptance as a universal experience for all in the recovery journey.
- Challenging critical dialogue: Andrea details her transition from critical and negative self-talk to a more neutral and positive narrative when body fears arise.
- The power of mindfulness and witness consciousness: the importance of acknowledging thoughts without letting them define yourself or your worth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fearless, an audio series designed to help you take action towards letting go of your eating disorder. |
| 0:12.7 | My name is Jessica Flint, and I'll be your guide to helping you embody the recovered version of yourself. |
| 0:18.3 | Like every human being ever to walk this planet, you and I are not |
| 0:22.9 | immune to fear. It is biologically programmed into our brains. At the same time, I'm committed to |
| 0:29.6 | not letting fear control my destiny and want you to have the same freedom. Every time we choose |
| 0:35.7 | courage over fear, we grow stronger and receive what we desire |
| 0:39.3 | most in regards to our recovery, our health, love, wealth, and impact in the world. In order to |
| 0:46.5 | fully let go of your eating disorder and whatever is holding you back in life, you need to learn |
| 0:51.0 | how to alchemize fear into courage. So let's lock arms and do this work together. Time to fly. Time to fly. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome back, my warrior loves. |
| 1:17.4 | Today we're going to talk about fear of negative body appearance. |
| 1:20.8 | And we'll be giving you strategies that you can use to reduce internal and external |
| 1:24.7 | barriers that are holding you back from body acceptance. |
| 1:28.5 | And along for this fearless journey is my co-pilot, Andrea Wells, the new host of Recovery Strong. |
| 1:34.2 | Welcome back, Andrea. |
| 1:36.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:36.8 | I'm looking forward to making some more personal progress with these lessons. |
| 1:40.7 | Again, I feel like this one really is resonating with me with my own body fears |
| 1:44.4 | that I've been sharing. So I'm excited. It's a process, right? I feel like when we're exploring |
| 1:49.3 | body appearance and by way of body acceptance or body acceptance being able to work with body |
| 1:55.4 | appearance, it's a process. And how has it been something that you've been working on over the years and even just right now? Like how has it changed for you and evolved? Yeah. Well, I think within myself, like in my own world, the people around me, my own mind, my own body, I feel like I've come a long way. I feel self-acceptance. Depends on the days. Some days I'm more body neutral. Some days I'm body positive. And I'm like, hell yeah, I love my body. And some days I'm like, oh, my body is a body. And that's it fluctuates. But I feel like that's both of those things are a night and day difference from hating my body and being afraid to go outside and be looked at because I struggled with body image so badly. So I feel like I've come |
| 2:34.1 | along away personally. And then also just with stepping into this role and thinking about people |
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