Girlfriend, if you're struggling with self-worth, feeling like you'll never measure up, or can't separate yourself from your eating disorder - this episode is for you.

Host Lindsey Nichol shares an incredibly vulnerable and inspiring episode about finding worth from within and discovering your true identity beyond the eating disorder. After a powerful moment during yoga listening to Lauren Daigle's "You Say," Lindsey was reminded of a truth that changed everything: You are not your eating disorder. Your true, authentic self lives underneath all of that.

In this encouraging episode, Lindsey walks you through:

This isn't just inspiration - this is an invitation to remember who you are beyond the eating disorder. To find worth from within. To practice self-compassion on the hard days. And to stop settling for a false version of yourself.

If you're having a down day or need encouragement, grab your favorite Tarjay journal and let's sit together. You are worthy just because you are.

The Yoga Moment: Lauren Daigle's "You Say"

The Worth Trap: Measuring Yourself by External Things

Identity Consumed: You Are Not Your Eating Disorder

Finding Worth From Within (And Above)

Creating Awareness: The Identity Shift

The Self-Compassion Research

Mindful Awareness Practice

The Self-Compassion Exercise: Hand Over Heart

The Truth About Your Worth

What You're Worth

✨ You are not your eating disorder - your true self lives underneath the disorder

✨ Eating disorders consume identity over time - healing requires separating yourself from the disorder

✨ Worth measured by external things is a trap - weight, appearance, achievements, others' opinions don't define you

✨ You're worthy just because you ARE - you cannot earn worth, it's inherent

✨ The voice on repeat is not YOU - that critical voice is the eating disorder, not your true self

✨ Self-compassion is research-backed - Kristin Neff's work shows its impact on mental health

✨ Feelings and thoughts aren't truths - they're temporary, not facts

✨ It's okay to not feel enough right now - this moment doesn't mean you aren't enough

✨ Your true identity lives underneath - beyond the false identity of the eating disorder

✨ Healing means choosing you daily - and that's okay, that's the work

✨ You're designed for more - there's a radical need for your uniqueness in this world

From Lauren Daigle's "You Say":

From Lindsey:

Step 1: Identify Your Biggest Challenge Think about your biggest challenge right now - the one thing you're most terrified of. Maybe it's weight gain, taking the next step, letting go of control, being honest, or something else. Name it.

Step 2: Place Your Hand Over Your Heart If you're able (not driving or operating machinery), place your hand over your heart. Feel:

Step 3: Acknowledge Your Worth Say to yourself:

Step 4: Let the Heaviness Be Acknowledge that the challenge feels super heavy. That's not wrong. That's not bad. It just IS. Allow it to be there. Allow the feeling of heaviness. Let it wash over you.

Step 5: Breathe Breathe in deeply. Then breathe out the heaviness. This is just a season.

Step 6: Talk to Yourself with Compassion Say these words to yourself:

Let that feeling sit there. Don't push it away.

Step 7: Breathe It Out Breathe in. Exhale it out. It is just a temporary emotion. This moment is not permanent.

Step 8: Practice Self-Compassion Tell yourself:

Step 9: Offer Kindness As though you're speaking to your best friend or your daughter:

Step 10: Remember the Truth When you challenge and change what's inside of you, everything changes around you.

Who is Kristin Neff? Recognized worldwide as a leading expert on self-compassion and its impact on positive mental health and psychology.

What is Self-Compassion?

Why It Matters in Recovery:

The Connection: Eating disorders are framed around exaggerated, glamorized negative beliefs. Self-compassion creates the space to observe these beliefs without identifying with them.

About Your Identity:

About Your Worth:

About Self-Compassion:

About Your Uniqueness:

The Big Questions:

Option 1: The Recovery Collective Join Lindsey's group coaching program where you'll get:

Option 2: One-on-One Personalized Coaching work directly with Lindsey for:

Learn more about both options at www.herbestself.co

You don't have to navigate stomach hate alone. Let's walk through this together.

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Lindsey Nichol is a former competitive figure skater turned God-led entrepreneur, boy mom, and digital CEO. She understands how core beliefs formed in childhood can create and maintain eating disorder patterns, and she's passionate about helping women identify and transform these beliefs to find lasting freedom.

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*While I am a certified health coach, anorexia survivor & eating disorder recovery coach, I do not intend the use of this message to serve as medical advice. Please refer to the disclaimer here in the show & be sure to contact a licensed clinical provider if you are struggling with an eating disorder.