You can feel body confident this summer: here’s how, with Alex Light

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Welcome to Motherkind, we are proudly sponsored by Wild Nutrition Women’s supplements, I am your host Zoe Blaskey and this is the show that is going grab you by the hand and be your guide through the wild ride that is modern motherhood. Every week I bring you world leading experts and thinkers to give us new ideas, new tools, new support, new inspiration for our lives as mothers - we span everything from work to relationships to mental health and healing to parenting. And I am very happy you are here. Ok tell me if this resonates, you’re excited about the summer, your holiday or a beach day or BBQ with friends and then that awful voice starts - “you’re legs are too big to wear those shorts”, you can’t wear a bikini everyone will laugh or your arms are too wobbly for a vest top. Those awful, untrue thoughts that, let’s face it, can stop you really getting all the joy that you deserve this summer. And that’s what I want for you to have as much joy and fun as possible this summer….so I have bought on one of the best body confidence experts I know, Alex Light, she is a ST bestselling author of “You are not a before picture” and she co-hosts an amazing podcast with Emily Clarkson “should I delete that”. And trust me when I say this is the conversation you need to hear today - because if you’re ready to finally feel more peace with your body then this conversation is going to teach you exactly how to do that. I hope you love it. Here it is. 5 Minute Motherkind⁠: 5 minutes a day for 21 days to calm, regulation and joy Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpodContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motherkind. We are proudly sponsored by wild nutrition's women's supplements. I am your host, Zoe Blaski, and this is the show that is going to grab you by the hand and be your guide through the wild ride that is modern motherhood.
0:21.4	Every week I bring you a world leaving expert or thinker to give us new ideas, new tools,
0:26.5	new support, new inspiration for our lives as mothers.
0:29.2	We spend everything here from work to relationships to mental health to healing and parenting.
0:34.6	And I am very happy that you are here.
0:39.2	Okay, tell me if this resonates.
0:44.9	You're excited about the summer, your holiday or a beach day or barbecue with friends. And then that awful voice starts. Your legs are too big to wear those shorts. You can't wear a bikini.
0:51.1	Everyone will laugh or your arms are too wobbly for that vest top.
0:54.3	Those awful untrue thoughts that, let's face it, can really get in the way of you experiencing
1:01.7	all the joy that you deserve this summer. And that's what I want for you to have as much joy
1:07.1	and fun as possible this summer. So I have bought on one of the best body confidence experts.
1:13.0	I know. Her name is Alex Light. She is a Sunday Times bestselling author of You Are Not a
1:18.3	before picture. And she co-hosts an amazing podcast with Emily Clarkson called Should I Delete
1:23.8	That? And trust me, when I say that this is the conversation you need to hear today,
1:29.9	because if you're ready to finally feel more peace with your body this summer,
1:35.9	then this conversation is going to teach you exactly how to do that.
1:41.4	We also talk about Alex's experience of matrescence. And if you only hear the first
1:47.1	10 minutes of this conversation, it is going to have a profound impact on you because of Alex's
1:53.2	honesty and her beautiful description of what matrescence has been like for her. I know you're
1:59.0	going to love this episode. If you do, please share it. Let's spread
2:03.2	this positivity, this validation, this compassion in a world of so much judgment on as mothers.
2:10.3	Let's be those women lifting other women up and spreading messages like these. So please do copy
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