Hi, this is Monica Packer. What you're about to hear is a session from my five-day online event going on right now,

The More for Mom's Conference. This event is for the mom who is ready for more in her happiness,

habits, health, home, and hobbies. Audio versions of each speaker session will only be available

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For ad-free video and audio versions of all content, be sure to sign up for the basic or all-access pass before the conference ends on October 12th. You can do so at aboutprogress.com

slash more for moms. Now on to our special session.

Thank you. on to our special session. Meg Hadley, welcome to the Morp for Mom's Conference.

It's so fun to have you here.

It's so fun to be here.

I'm a good 10 out of 10 fan for all things, Meg, and you are all going to find out why. But I wanted to just jump right in by talking about the things that we do as women, the weird things we normalize. And I mean, that could be a whole other topic in and of itself. But the one that we're here for is the way we talk about our bodies. And you kind of get that anytime

women gather, right, from a little social gathering, like a girl's night, to even being in the

line for grocery checkout, just how it's no big deal for a woman to talk bad about our bodies.

It's almost like a way for us to join arms and to make friends and to laugh at

ourselves. But it's indicative of deeper things. So let's speak to that first. How do you see this

coming up? And why is it not so great? Yeah, you were so right. I mean, you can get a group of

women around, especially around food or anything like that. and you're going to hear about their bodies or maybe what they're doing to change their bodies. That might be a lot of talk about that. And that's all coming from the same place of like not liking our bodies, whatever diet we're on or what food we're giving up or anything like that. And there's even,

like you said, this bonding that can happen over body dislike. And, you know, I think this has been

going on for a very long time. You know, we might have watched our moms do this. We might have done

this with our moms, you know, growing up. And I believe it comes from a place of a lot of negative messages that we've internalized about bodies. It might be our own, like our own body. Maybe things that have been said to us that have been really harmful and we're still hearing those. It might have been things that we've heard other people that

we care about say about other people's bodies because when that happens, even if that other body

is very different than ours, we still internalize like, oh, there's a right way to have a body

and there's a wrong way to have a body. And this person is obviously has this wrong body. Or maybe we see a body get praised for complying, you know, with a current social beauty standard, right? And so we see, we take note of that as kids when we're growing up and we're like, oh, like that, I can get noticed if my body's that way in a positive way.

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