Satiated Episode 156: Unraveling Body and its Image From Your Sense of Self and Identity

Happy Satiated Saturday! 

There is ongoing confusion around body acceptance, how to live in a body and be at peace with it, and pressure that you need to figure out body appreciation all on your own.

I personally don't believe in the saying, "you need to love yourself before anyone else can love you."

I did NOT love my body when I met my husband over a decade ago. I was very open about that with him from the beginning. I was struggling to live in such a sensitive body that had curves in, what I perceived, as all the "wrong" places. 

One day, Ethan walked me into the bathroom and had me look at myself in a full length mirror. He put his hands on my waist and said, "These are where your hip bones are. You can't change that." 

For some reason, on this particular day, it landed in a way it never had before. There is an exquisitely designed structure inside of me, that has been passed down to me, that is just me. I can fight it and create more ongoing internal unrest or I can choose to accept it and turn all that emotional anguish out at a world that taught me that my body shape should be different than what it simply is. 

In this week’s episode, I chat with Erica Mather, Embodiment Educator and author of Your Body, Your Best Friend about how to disconnect your body's image from your identity, how to begin perceiving your body with brand new eyes, and breaking down what we're taught to believe about our bodies. 

You can also read the transcript to this week’s episode here: https://www.stephaniemara.com/blog/unraveling-body-and-its-image-from-your-sense-of-self-and-identity

I want you to know that you don't need to love your body. You can be at a place where you're still longing for it to be different. You can be grieving for the body that may never be. This will be a part of your ongoing journey in having a relationship with your body. That is the one thing that won't change is that this is your body and the only one you will have.

With Compassion and Empathy, 
Stephanie Mara Fox

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