How to love your body (whatever it looks like) with Mel Wells

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Mel Wells is a Certified Health Coach, Eating Psychology Coach, International Speaker and the Bestselling Author of widely acclaimed, ‘The Goddess Revolution’. She is Hay House’s youngest author and has been featured in Forbes Under 30, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, BBC Radio 1 and more, as a leading women’s expert in her field. Mel and I chat about: - Mel’s story; eating disorders, relationships, food, exercise, diets and how one thought changed everything. - the biggest problem facing mums and body image issues, and why we’re often asking the wrong question. - how changing the way we talk to ourselves can directly change our energy levels. - the most important things to do when you want to make a change to how you view yourself, your body and your relationship with food. - what we should teach our children, especially girls, about body image and eating. For full show notes go to https://www.motherkind.co/listen-1/ To find out more about Mel Wells, visit https://melwells.com and ‘iammelwells’ (Instagram). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.6	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Motherkind podcast with me, your host, Zoe Blaskey.
1:19.9	This week we are talking all things body image with Mel Wells.
1:25.6	If you haven't come across Mel, she is a health and eating psychology coach.
1:31.6	She's a speaker. She's a body image expert and she has written a brilliant book called The Goddess
1:37.9	Revolution with Hayhouse, which was a bestseller. So Mal and I chatted in my home.
1:46.5	We had a really, really lovely afternoon together talking about how we can learn to love our bodies,
1:54.2	even though they might look very different to how they did pre-children.
1:59.2	And that was definitely my experience.
2:00.9	So you aren't going backwards, neither is your body. to how they did pre-children, and that was definitely my experience.
2:04.8	So you aren't going backwards, neither is your body.
2:10.9	You can move forward, and absolutely you can have a very healthy and strong and fit body as a mother.
2:15.5	But just don't be with the mentality of trying to get something back.
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