The Problem with Loving Your Body
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
There's a really specific reason that I decided the subtitle of my new book, The Core 4 couldn't be, "Love Your Body, Own Your Power." It has to do with how we put self-love on a pedestal as the be-all, end-all way to approach personal growth and transformation in the wellbeing space. While I think most people who encourage you to "love your body" mean well, if you're in the depths of really negative body image, lacking self-confidence, and struggling with self-acceptance, self-love can feel like an impossible pipe dream. So what else is there?
In this episode, I'm presenting another option for a middle ground where you can be neutral about your body. I'm discussing why it may be more helpful and why you don't have to earn the right to take care of and respect your body. My hope is that by the end, you may realize there's a neutral place you can think about instead of being dismayed at the idea of having to love every single bit of your body 24-7.
In this episode I covered:
- Why words are important & why I changed the subtitle of the book
- The sticky stuff about self-love
- Why neutrality is a valid option
- What neutrality might look like
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Resources from this episode:
- The Core 4
- Take a Deep Dive Inside The Core 4 – Ep 226
- On the Wagon, Off the Wagon – Ep 216
- Harder to Kill Club
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Welcome to episode 28 of Harder to Kill radio. I'm your host |
| 0:06.0 | Steph Godro. It is Fierce Love Friday, which is my solo show every Friday on the mic where I share something that's on my mind. |
| 0:16.1 | Tuesdays I have an expert guest interview where I bring on someone to share their |
| 0:21.4 | expertise, their passion, what they're doing in the world. |
| 0:25.3 | And I think between the two shows you get a pretty good idea of what's percolating around |
| 0:28.8 | in my brain on any given week. |
| 0:32.2 | We are now in the first sort of full week that the core four |
| 0:35.8 | which is my new book has been out. It's been so incredibly cool to see the book in |
| 0:42.1 | your hands. I mean what a thrill. You get to write a book. It takes |
| 0:47.0 | it takes months and months and years in many cases and then it goes out into the world and it becomes its own thing and people are holding it and using it and reading it and reflecting on it and wow what what an absolute thrill it's so very cool. And I really appreciate everybody who is getting |
| 1:06.4 | the book and sharing about it. It's so amazing to watch that happen. You can get the book anywhere that books are sold online or even in bookstores. |
| 1:16.4 | And I am still giving a bonus if you want to grab that. It's at core for the book.com. |
| 1:21.6 | Once you've ordered your copy up you can go there and claim that |
| 1:25.3 | bonus before I hop in okay so I should tell you what today's show is about |
| 1:29.8 | I just completely bypassed that step. Today is going to be about why loving your body can |
| 1:39.2 | be problematic. I've been talking a lot about this lately on all of the podcasts that I've been on so |
| 1:46.2 | not only am I a podcaster but lately I've been a guest on dozens of podcasts and you can find those all linked from my website and I'm so |
| 1:56.5 | very grateful to all of the podcast hosts who have brought me on and this topic |
| 2:01.2 | has been coming up a lot and I think it's because it's really kind of embedded in the |
| 2:05.7 | subtitle of the book but I want to spend some time today deconstructing some of my thoughts or at least |
| 2:12.2 | a stream of consciousness about why loving your body can |
| 2:16.1 | be a problematic ideal and what you can do instead. |
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