I Used to Hate My Body and it Impacted My Relationship - Here's How I Became Confident: Jocelyn Solo Episode 116
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
You aren't alone if you've dealt with body image challenges. In this episode, I share the vulnerable truth about my relationship to my body growing up, and specifically how it negatively impacted my romantic relationships.
You will hear the 6 things I did to start loving myself (inside and out) so that I could show up as an authentically confident partner. Feel free to steal any one of them for yourself so you can show up more confident in your own relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empowered Couples podcast. You're going to be talking with me, myself, |
| 0:04.6 | and I today, it's Jocelyn Freeman. And once a week, we trade off and you'll either hear from |
| 0:10.4 | Aaron or you'll hear from myself. And we get to go a bit deeper into topics that are important to us |
| 0:15.7 | and that are on our hearts. And this week, I'm going to go into a topic that can be uncomfortable |
| 0:20.1 | for some. It definitely |
| 0:21.5 | used to be an uncomfortable conversation for me. And it's about how I used to hate my body. |
| 0:26.8 | Yes, I used to hate my body. That's a strong statement I know. But that's true for me. And it |
| 0:31.9 | impacted my relationships. And I want to share with you how I became confident. So taking you back, I grew up and I used to be, |
| 0:43.2 | and I always have been kind of on the thinner side of things. And one side note that I think is |
| 0:47.7 | important is we never can assume that whether someone is on the thinner side or the curvier side that they aren't self-conscious |
| 0:56.6 | either way. And I literally used to hate the fact that I was on the thinner side. And I even would |
| 1:02.8 | try to eat more and eat more and eat more and add to my body size. And I would get picked on |
| 1:08.6 | and there was nothing I could do about it. And so from a young age, |
| 1:12.6 | I remember really being in my young teens and I never would wear shorts. I hated my body. |
| 1:18.9 | You guys, to get real with it, I would be getting ready for school in the morning and I would |
| 1:24.8 | cry as I was looking in the mirror. and I would just grab my legs and I would |
| 1:29.4 | just say please just get thicker. I hate how thin you are and I would look in the mirror and I hated |
| 1:35.1 | being blonde. I hated so much about myself and I know that maybe even me sharing part of this might |
| 1:41.8 | be triggering emotions and use. So number one, I just want to |
| 1:44.5 | invite you to take a breath if it is bringing back memories of you because so many of us, |
| 1:50.7 | both men and women, have dealt with being body self-conscious and just having a bad relationship |
| 1:58.2 | with our image. And so just take a breath and it's okay, |
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