While body image can be a concern for both men and women, it has been a significant issue, particularly for women, due to societal pressures and cultural expectations surrounding beauty and appearance.
Women's body image has been heavily influenced by media, advertising, and social norms, which often promote unrealistic and idealized standards of beauty. These standards typically emphasize thinness, youthfulness, and specific body proportions that can be unattainable for many women. As a result, many women may experience body dissatisfaction and engage in behaviors such as dieting, extreme exercising, or even developing eating disorders to try to achieve these ideals.
Today’s conversation is with Nina Manolson who a Body-Peace® coach. She helps people end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body—as it is. She is known for her deeply feminist, anti-diet, body-peace approach. She brings her 30 years experience as a therapist, Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Body-Trust® Guide and Psychology of Eating Teacher to helping women create a respectful and trusting relationship with their food and body.
Nina’s Body-Peace work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster, and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates a positive long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching and poetry positively change the conversation that women are having with their body. She also writes Body-Poems as a way to encourage a shift in the way we talk to, and about our body
What you will learn:
- Princess stage - younger years needing validation - moving into Queen stage - I don’t care what you think of me (2:30)
- The “invisible” phenomenon many women experience as they get older. (5:37)
- How to begin accepting yourself and looking at what is the messaging and where that belief came from(7:55)
- Body listening making space for parts of us to be heard - interceptive awareness (15:00)
- Masculine / Feminine archetypal energies and bringing the feminine into relationship with our bodies (19:10)
- How doing your own work by healing your own relationship with your own body helps your young kids accept theirs (24:46)
- Body Peace vs Body War (30:15)
- Throwing away the scale (33:50)
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