Can you be Body Positive and still want to Change your Body?
This is a BIG question...
Many people in the self love/body positive community are shouting from the rooftops that you should NOT want to ever change your body or lose weight if you consider yourself to be body positive.
I respectfully disagree.
The way I see it, your body is always evolving, so if you'd prefer to lose weight (and/or work on your fitness, get a tattoo, etc.) for personal or health reasons, then you can choose to do that.
By the same token, if you DON"T want to change your body, then don't. This is 100% a personal choice. If you are truly happy as you are, then just be!
I am NOT in any way advocating that you should change your body. Simply that you are an autonomous person who has the choice and you shouldn't be ashamed whatever choice you make.
But before you take this yes and run with it right back to the diet bandwagon or to a crazy workout regime, pause for a moment.
Take some time to check in with these four pillars to ensure that you are being loving, kind, compassionate, and treating your body with the respect it deserves throughout the process.


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10. Can you be Body Positive and still want to Change your Body?

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Learning to shine your light into the dark spaces within is a beautiful journey and one that today's guest shares eloquently.
Leah Lovelight came on to share her story of learning to love and accept the woman she is today. Stemming from a childhood of abuse and trauma, she lived many years of her life unwilling to feel and focused on simply achieving things like she was "supposed" to do.
Following a series of lifechanging events and some big decisions, Leah made the move to a small mountain town and dove into healing and learning to accept and appreciate herself.
Her story is raw, real, and a true testament to the fact that anyone can learn to treat themselves with compassion and kindness.
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Leah Lovelight Michael is a sought-after Experience Designer. She is the founder of Lovelight Way, co-creator of REVEAL Retreat, author of the book Modern Fear The Invisible Prison, and a soulFULL teacher for change makers, soul seekers, intuitive curious and heart centered leaders. She is a Master Facilitator, an international award-winning retreat leader, a certified XCHANGE Guide and intenSati Leader.
Leah is a student of life, a connoisseur of people, and a leader in self-discovery. After spending 16 years in corporate America, she saw a need to balance her type A personality with her intuitive connection to life. Through her own deep inner work, radical self-acceptance, applied understanding of sociology, reiki, energy work, mindset development and craniosacral therapy she has developed and designed a proven path to self-liberation and wholeness.
Leah believes that the change of the world starts within, and she is on a mission to support those that want to support others, so that collectively we all rise together.
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135. Shining Your Light and Embodying Love with Leah Lovelight Michael

Speaking about shame, about vulnerability, eating disorders, childhood trauma, and the "shoulds" many people live by makes for a juicy and eye opening conversation.
Chatting with Kyira Wackett was all that and more! Kyira came on to share her own story of finding love for herself through discovery, acceptance, vulnerability, and more.
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Kyira Wackett is a licensed mental health therapist specializing in shame and anxiety. She is the owner of Adversity Rising, a company who equips people with the confidence and skills to write their own stories. 
Her work ranges from one on one coaching to corporate wellness packages with a focus on what she calls the anti-band-aid movement or resisting the quick fix in favor of doing the work necessary to make meaningful and sustainable change.
The highlight of her work is her signature program, That Life AR, where she walks people through her 5-step therapeutic process she believes can combat any pain point that comes our way because we all deserve to live a life in which we can thrive.


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134. Overcoming Shame and Rewriting the Stories that Define our Lives with Kyira Wackett

Learning to love and nurture yourself is challenging, and for many men there's an extra layer on top.
The idea that men should just "tough it out" or "walk it off" when times are challening is old and outdated. And there is a better way!
Chris came on to share his relationship with himself, his own self love journey with all it's ups and downs.
He's here to be vulnerable to show that it's normal to have challenges, it takes courage to ask for help, and to share that nurturing yourself is actually quite simple, though not always easy.
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Relationships are the most important, wonderful, and challenging part of being human. The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. This is why Chris focuses his life coaching practice on helping people create and maintain healthy, joyful relationships.
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133. Being Vulnerable and Learning to Self-Nurture with Chris Weals

Your differences can be your biggest strengths!
Today's guest has dyslexia, and for years she felt like it was the thing holding her back. It affected her relationship with herself, it impacted her career, and became the thing she felt she needed to hide.
By embracing and fully accepting herself as she is - dyslexia included - Louise has discovered her greatest strength and is here to share with you how you can do the same.
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Louise is a mum of three and an award winning marketing communications consultant and founder of Connected Comms Society.  She has nearly 20 years of experience working with some of the biggest and smallest companies, agencies and charities  who want to grow authentically with purpose.
Louise believes that you grow from the inside out and those positive connections have the power to change the world.
For herself, she has overcome lessons of acceptance and the need for support to be successful. Which is why, she is extending her reach to help other professionals wanting to specialise and develop their  craft of marketing communications by building their strategic knowledge, skills and confidence.


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132. Make Dyslexia Your Unique Strength with Louise Harris

If you're hating on yourself and your body, how can you be open and have a great attitude towards money?
Like so many things in life, these two tend to mirror each other.
Today's guest Eileen is passionate about sharing her own story of coming to a place of self love, but also of sharing how she overcame losing almost everything she had. Eileen dug herself out of a devastatingly low financial situation and is here to help other women do the same.
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Eileen Joy is the money coach for moms. She makes money easy and empowers moms and their kids with a financial education. She teaches moms how to create wealth without the sacrifice and still enjoy their lives, so they can stop living paycheck to paycheck and have a healthy relationship with money. And she shows them how to teach their kids about money so they can be set for life! Her 10 year old son knows more about money than most adults.
Eileen is a divorced, single mom who hit rock bottom after her divorce. Eileen had to get a new house, a new car and a new job all at the same time. She went from bankrupt and broke to now totally debt free, a fully funded emergency fund, a paid off car three years early, and on track to retire early!
She has created an easy system that any busy and overwhelmed mom can follow and specializes in working one on one with self-led, professional moms who are committed to investing in themselves. Eileen has created a safe and comfortable environment to learn about one of the most avoided and taboo subjects, money. No more Shame, No More Guilt and No More Embarrassment.
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10. Can you be Body Positive and still want to Change your Body?

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