Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. Today how to stick two

fingers up to made up beauty standards and body ideals.

No matter how much positive self-talk someone's going to do, unfortunately, the world we live in does not care. It cares about having the same size boobs that are going not in different directions.

If you are critiquing beauty culture in any way, alongside with that is a complete rejection of it.

And that's very much not, I'm trying to do like the antithesis of that the minute you lose that

neurosis of what do they think what do I look like do I look good is my bum big in this is

it my bum too small in this, whatever.

Once you get past that, oh my God.

We're well into summer now,

and I know that you're likely have been fed

some sort of messaging about your summer body

or summer skin or some bullshit like that by now.

So I wanted to pop into your feed today

to share some happy place conversations

that I really hope will leave you feeling a little bit more empowered, a little less alone,

and with a little bit more self-worth than the rest of the world might want you to have,

particularly when it comes to what you look like.

So we're going to start with a conversation you won't have heard on the podcast.

It's from our YouTube series What Is How To.

And it's Dr. Rob Wilson, who's a cognitive behavior therapist and chair of the

body dysmorphic disorder foundation. Then it's broadcaster Amanda DeCadne

an activist Emma de Beery on the reality of the culture we live in, one that overvalues

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