This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Go with my place. and Success Podcast.

The band is Bunny with a song Thaw.

It's a haunting song with a raw message, and that is intentional because we're going there today.

Today, we're talking about you and your relationship with your body.

It can be hard to love your body.

I mean, how do you feel about your body?

If you're like a lot of people, especially women, you don't like what you see in the mirror.

You wish your body look different and a lot of people, especially women, get tricked into believing that if only you could attain this physical ideal of beauty that is unrealistic

for like 99.999% of all humans. But if you could, then finally,

you would get the love, happiness, and success that you always wanted. And this is a trap.

We need to talk about it. Too many of us are socialized into basing our worth on the way we look

and we spend way too much time thinking about how we can force our body to be different.

I get super vigilant to what we're eating or weighing ourselves or even taking this, you know,

air quote, healthy lifestyle to an extreme that is not actually good

for anyone, especially mentally and emotionally or physically for that matter. If any of what I'm

saying is feeling familiar and on point for you, I want you to get ready for a breath of fresh air. Today I'm so pleased to be

visiting with my colleague here at Growing Self, Stephanie O. She is a marriage and family therapist,

but she also has a real passion for helping people, especially women, liberate themselves from these really destructive and toxic

ideas about self-worth and particularly self-worth based on the way you should look.

So Stephanie is here today to talk with us about how to practice health at any size, how to shift

away from self-hatred and towards self-acceptance

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