Pushkin.

Hey, Happiness Lab listeners.

It's just about the start of summer,

which means we're finally coming to the end of our special series on spring cleaning your happiness.

But since swimsuit season is around the corner, I wanted to end this series with one

final thing that many of us need to let go of to boost our happiness. We need to clear out

our body shame. With social media feeds filled with bikini body workouts and looks maxing tips,

it can be very easy to not

only beat yourself up about what you look like, but also to turn exercise into some form

of body hatred. But what if you swept away all that self-loathing and embraced moving the only

body you'll ever have in a healthier, happier way? What have you exercised without trying to transform

what your body looked like?

That is what we'll be exploring

in today's throwback episode.

It's a show we ran a few years ago in January,

another time of year

when we tend to fall into body hatred spirals.

And it features an inspirational yoga teacher and author,

who's changed the way that I personally

relate to exercise.

Jessamine Stanley spent most of her life identifying as what she called a, quote, fat and

awkward weirdo.

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