You’ve Been Taught to Hate Yourself - But the Shame Was Never Yours. Here’s How to Finally Start Loving Who You Are (Fan Fav)

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Impact Theory

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4.7 • 657 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This is a Fan Fav episode. The Body Shop launched a global report this year that revealed 60% of women wish they had more respect for themselves. This study is shining light on a self-love crisis. Sexuality, economic status, age, and time on social media were all factors that seem to impact how people felt about themselves and their ability to love themselves. In this episode, we have 7 powerful women who understand the pain of being in a mental space that doesn’t make you feel confident or much like a badass. The throughline here seems to be that self love requires you to take the time to get to know yourself. So, in the next 35 minutes, take notes and think through areas you can start to remove the barriers in place preventing you from loving yourself. Where are you being most unkind to yourself? Where does self-doubt seem to always show up? It’s time to create an unbreakable relationship with yourself, and this is how… Original air date: 12-22-21 SHOW NOTES: Tip #1 | Spend Time with Yourself, Radhi finds herself through meditation [0:30] Tip #2 | Challenge Yourself, Roxy has loving dialogue and a journal for challenges [4:41] Tip #3 | Accept Yourself As Your Are, Cynthia says start with knowing who you are [11:30] Tip #4 | Know Who You Are, Patrice anchored to her true self not outward situations [17:42] Tip #5 | Treat Yourself How Like Your Best Friend, Najwa on making yourself feel heard [23:43] Tip #6 | Humbly Brag About Yourself, Daniele says start bragging on your achievements [25:49] Tip #7 | Slow Down, Mel takes pause to be with herself face to face in the mirror [30:07] CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS Vital Proteins: Get 20% off by going to https://www.vitalproteins.com and entering promo code WOI at check out. SleepMe: Visit https://sleep.me/woi to get your Chilipad and save 20% with code WOI. Try it risk-free with their 30-night sleep trial and free shipping! OneSkin: Get 15% off with code LISA at https://oneskin.co Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/lisa Macy’s: Upgrade your glam at https://macys.com FOLLOW LISA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisabilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.3	For me, self-love is picturing the person that you love the most and telling yourself, I will not treat myself any less than I would treat that person.
1:13.0	To love yourself is to say, this is hard. I'm not comfortable. But I love myself so damn much that,
1:20.5	girl, you better get your ass up. You got it. Keep going. it keep going yeah I felt that way for a long time that I felt that way for a long time
1:35.2	that I felt something was missing I knew that my love for myself could not be based
1:39.7	on other people there had to be something else that I could have a foundation of
1:43.9	okay fine they can be ups and downs but I never go down to a low where I don't love myself people. There had to be something else that I could have a foundation of, okay, fine, they
1:44.6	can be ups and downs, but I never go down to a low where I don't love myself. And I definitely
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