S13 EP17: How to Love Yourself. Period.
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
There’s no one who can love yourself better than you and Panache Desai is here to show you how. This is your moment!
This episode invites you into a deeper understanding of your true self, encouraging you to know yourself from the heart.
So many of us carry the belief that we are "not enough" or "too much." Are you constantly meeting the needs of others, only to feel isolated and longing for the love you were promised?
This conversation is not about "fixing" anything. It's about reconnecting with and embracing the person you already are, recognizing that you are worthy of your own time, energy, and love.
We talk about:
Your authentic self vs your conditioned self.
How to stop invalidating yourself.
Why you can’t expect someone who doesn’t love themself to love you
How to be you without compromising
Why trauma can become a catalyst instead of a life sentence
The danger of living in the past or obsessing over the future
How to become the “observer” of your thoughts instead of being ruled by them
Intimate relationships and why you don’t need someone to love you.
If you’ve ever doubted yourself or felt lost… this episode is for you. You will leave knowing that you are all the things. You are a unique expression of love in the world, just the way you are now.
Links:
To register for Panache's free live meditation (every Monday through Friday morning 8:30 - 9:21am ET) https://www.panachedesai.com/call-to-calm-meditations/
Website: https://www.panachedesai.com/
Chapters
00:00:00 “You Are Enough”… So Why Do We Feel Broken?
00:01:41 The “Not Enough” Pandemic No One Talks About
00:04:33 Why Success, Fitness & Goals Still Feel Empty
00:07:20 You Can’t Achieve Your Way Out of Pain
00:09:07 The Lie That Something Is Wrong With You
00:13:02 The “Created Self” vs Who You Really Are
00:16:18 Why Control Is Actually Fear (Not Discipline)
00:19:30 Signs You’re Living a Version of You That Isn’t Real
00:34:26 When Your Identity Becomes a Cage (Especially for Women)
00:59:34 The One Simple Shift That Changes Everything (Start Here)
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| 0:00.0 | You're being invited into a deeper experience of who you are. |
| 0:03.0 | There's a pandemic of not enoughness that's all over the world. |
| 0:06.0 | You can get to a point where you can start to just recognize, my God, like, I just really haven't loved myself. |
| 0:12.0 | I really just really haven't embraced who I am. |
| 0:15.0 | And at first that's going to be sad. |
| 0:17.0 | But then after a while, you realize, well, this is my opportunity. |
| 0:20.0 | Our role in all of this is to cultivate an intimacy with who we are. |
| 0:23.6 | And to accept these parts of ourselves and to recognize that we deserve our love. |
| 0:29.6 | There's love in us. It's in all of us. |
| 0:31.6 | When we start to reclaim that part of ourselves, which is the truth of ourselves, |
| 0:36.6 | well then we can reclaim everything else, the wisdom, the love, the light, truth of ourselves, well, then we can reclaim |
| 0:37.8 | everything else, the wisdom, the love, the light, the abundance, everything else, you see. |
| 0:41.7 | And if you're that person who's listening to this and thinking, as uncomfortable as this |
| 0:46.0 | conversation is right now, he's speaking to me, then now it's time to start paying attention. |
| 0:56.1 | Hi, everybody, and welcome back to the Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast. |
| 1:00.5 | We have an amazing guest for you today. |
| 1:03.8 | Panashda Sai is an internationally acclaimed mentor, speaker, and bestselling author |
| 1:10.1 | dedicated to unlocking human potential and fostering |
| 1:14.6 | personal empowerment. Okay, everybody just said like, hold the phone, stop everything, turn up the |
| 1:22.6 | volume, because if that isn't what we're all seeking, I don't know what. |
| 1:28.1 | You've got three decades of experience as a transformational thought leader. |
| 1:34.2 | And you inspire individuals worldwide to achieve greater connection, authenticity, and peace. |
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