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The Overwhelmed Brain

How your body image can make you do things you may regret

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

If you have ever dealt with body image issues, this is an important episode that addresses the subject of someone who lost over 100 pounds and learned that people treated her much differently afterward, She was living the life she always wanted. Until she realized it wasn't only the pounds she lost. She lost something a lot deeper. And happiness didn't last. This is a special episode of The Overwhelmed Brain where I introduce you to an amazing podcast called A Slight Change of Plans. I'm going to play you a segment from an episode that I believe has a powerful life lesson for all of us. A Slight Change of Plans is hosted by Dr. Maya Shankar, who is a cognitive scientist that studies how our minds work and how we change. She hosts intimate conversations that give an unvarnished look into how people navigate changes of all kinds and use that change to ultimately grow. You'll hear little-known personal stories and reflections from familiar names, like Tiffany Haddish, Kacey Musgraves, and even former first lady Hillary Clinton. Tune into A Slight Change of Plans to hear extraordinary stories from real-life inspirations, like a young cancer researcher in the throes of a stage 4 diagnosis. Their stories and circumstances couldn't be more different, but they all share one thing in common: life threw them a (slight) change of plans. On this episode, Elna Baker shares a powerful story of personal and physical transformation that took a turn she didn't expect. After losing close to 100 pounds in five months. she realized she had lost herself in the process. You can hear more episodes of A Slight Change of Plans at: http://podcasts.pushkin.fm/overwhelmedbrain

Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to welcome you to a special edition of the overwhelmed brain and this is really

0:06.4

special.

0:07.4

This is about a podcast I started listening to called a slight change of plans.

0:13.9

Have you ever been on a path in life and then just decided that something needed to change?

0:20.3

This podcast interested me because it's hosted by a cognitive scientist who studies how

0:26.1

our minds work and how we change.

0:29.6

And that's what I love to learn about and that's what I love to talk about.

0:33.3

And so I gave it a shot and it is an excellent podcast.

0:37.5

I highly recommend you tune in to a slight change of plans.

0:41.8

Not only am I just telling you to tune in, I'm actually going to play a clip from that

0:46.1

show they gave me permission.

0:47.1

I'm going to play this clip.

0:49.6

It's about a person who was overweight and really didn't think about it too much until

0:53.5

people started treating her differently because of the way she looked.

0:57.7

And the episode is really all about body image and how we look at ourselves and how

1:02.3

we feel about ourselves and how she went on this journey of losing a bunch of weight

1:07.9

and learning that she lost part of herself along the way.

1:12.2

This is something I really don't talk about too much on my show about body image and things

1:17.4

like that.

1:18.4

I've had episodes on that.

1:19.4

In fact, I talked about my own self-consciousness about my body when I was younger and even

1:24.2

today.

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