Undoing the Shame of Our Body Image Struggles: Hillary McBride

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

What would our lives be like if we spent less time thinking and talking about the way we look? What If we stopped comparing our bodies and bemoaning our “flaws”? Researchers report 85–95% of women are extremely dissatisfied with their bodies. How can we change this for ourselves? How can we pass down positive messages about female bodies to the next generation of women? Hillary McBride is a therapist and researcher who writes about these questions in her book Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are. According to Hillary, we inherit harmful stories about our bodies, and may even pass them onto our daughters without even knowing it. Hillary points out other ways we come by this language: through systemic misinformation and misogyny that envelop us daily, pushing us toward an unattainable standard of beauty. This conversation has everything to do with dispelling our shame and celebrating our womanhood. It reminds us of the power of legacy and the freedom we gain by owning our stories and our worth. And at the end of those stories, we each get to define what’s beautiful, accepted, and good.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to counts, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.1	Hey guys, Jen Hatmaker here, your host of the For the Love Podcast.
0:26.1	Welcome to the show today, I'm really glad you're here.
0:29.9	Right now we're in the middle of a series called For the Love of Good Change, and I am loving
0:34.0	it.
0:35.0	Guys, I can't, as I've been on interviews with all of our guests in this series, I am trying
0:40.3	to remember a time when my brain has just been buzzing so much.
0:45.2	Just taking in so much good counsel and good leadership and wisdom and just helpful
0:51.3	guidance and not in the old traditional way of like, fixture dumb life, but more, it's
0:58.2	just a lot of self-compassion and awareness and these healthy sort of integrated ways
1:04.2	of living.
1:05.2	I'm actually not into new year, new you.
1:07.3	I don't like that and I hope you don't hear that in this particular series.
1:12.4	I don't think we're supposed to change everything about ourselves in order to finally be happy.
1:17.7	I don't like that mindset at all.
1:19.6	This is supposed to be sort of the opposite of that approach, the series.
1:24.6	And so I think we can be mindful and look at changes that don't overwhelm us or seem
1:30.0	unattainable or make us feel guilty or invite comparison, but rather sort of gently lead
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