Pre-UFYB 20: Healthy Habits & Your Body
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
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How to Feel Good About Yourself
The size of my body is nothing to do with how I feel. My thoughts about it are what matter. If we have perfectionist brains that if you just get to a certain weight or reach a certain mileage on your run will feel better will feel good about ourselves that shit is a lie. Your brain will always keep moving the goal post. Just like when it comes to your career while we've talked about this in the perfectionism episode your brain tells you ifyou just get this new job you can feel good about yourself. But manipulating your body does not improve your self-esteem. It doesn't work until you change your thinking. So poem I love by Mary Oliver: "You only
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