The Beyond The Food Show |empowering|educating|women|health|mind Body Connection

In today's episode, we'll talk about coming to terms with our body... now Coming to terms with my body now was one of the hardest emotional events of my short life. I had to grieve my fantasy body... the body that was going to bring me everything I didn’t have now. Moreover, I had to grieve the thin ideal that diet culture had pushed into my core beliefs and that I was dreaming about since the age of 12. I had to learn to be in my body now... not the one I thought I should have but that one I have now. Body Fantasy We are indoctrinated very young to the thin ideal. I can remember, as young as 6 years, me playing with barbies and thinking about how I would look like her when I would be older. How I would dress my thin waist and be the admiration of everyone. As we grew in my teens, I became obsessed with chasing this thin body. You see at 12 years old, I dieted for the first time. People told me to lose weight if I wanted to be beautiful. As has my brain developed even more, I acquired in my core beliefs this