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Episode Overview
In today’s episode, Annie and Jen interview Molly, a longtime Balance365 member about the changes she experienced as a result of participating in the program. From the outcomes she expected to some others she didn’t, listen in to hear how Molly didn’t just learn to balance her plate, she learned to balance what she wanted and how she shows up in her own life.
What you’ll hear in this episode
- Why pregnancy was the perfect time for Molly to look at her habits
- The value of community
- The benefits of taking a break from attempting or thinking about weight loss
- How habits can help during the postpartum period
- The importance of body image and maintaining perspective postpartum
- The impact of scarcity mindset about food
- The moment you learn you don’t have to earn your food and what that feels like
- Taking the morality away from food
- Moving away from the need for a clean plate
- Dealing with food waste
- Learning to troubleshoot discomfort beyond just food
- Being more mindful of emotional eating
- Ways to limit emotional eating through mindfulness
- Body acceptance and how it changes sex
- Learning to ask for what you need and how that translates from relationships, division of labour, and sex.
- Feeling worthy of taking up space and finding self-worth and innate value as humans
- Radical self-love and the journey towards it
- Confidence and self-advocacy and the career change it led to
- Weight loss as a byproduct, not an objective
- Stepping back from comparison and finding your own way
- Molly’s advice for women considering Balance365
Resources
- Episode 58: Balance365 Member Spotlight: Beth
- Episode 79: Stopping The Diet Cycle: One Mom’s Journey To Wellness
- Balance365 Workshop
Transcript
Download a copy of this episode’s transcript here.
