Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions

we have about our lives as women. We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships

and self-confidence, a better calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the full.

Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when you navigate it together as

girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started. So recently I heard a statistic that says that 90

percent of men and women in western cultures hate their bodies. Isn't that crazy? 90 percent.

But the thing is it's not that crazy because for most of my life I've totally been part of that 90 percent.

Now I don't always hate my body. Sometimes I just dislike my body and thankfully more and more

in the last 10 years or so I've started to actually sometimes like my body occasionally even love it.

But overall I have truly lost count of the numbers of hours and days and months and years I've

spent wishing my body was different and I know I'm not alone in this. You know there have been

some really great body positivity conversations happening lately and I am so grateful for them.

But I also know that sometimes when people talk about learning to love our bodies the solutions

they suggest just don't sit well with me. Things like just think about your body differently

are so much easier said than done it feels like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound.

Now I am glad that people are suggesting something because we can't keep going like this.

This is the one body we have. We only get one and we also only get one life and I just don't

want to spend my one and only life hating my one and only body. There are so many other lovely

and important things I'd rather be thinking about. But again getting to that place is a lot

easier said than done and so that's why I'm just thrilled about today's podcast episode.

Today I'm talking with Dr. Hilary McBride. Hilary is a therapist and author, a researcher and a

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