The first time I looked in a mirror after my stroke, I didn’t know who was staring back at me. My face was unrecognizable, and my body might as well have been a stranger’s. It took me years to accept the reality of my new appearance. Feeling anything close to "positivity" was not in the realm of possibility.

We’re living in the era of body positivity and I am HERE for it! But as a woman living with disabilities, I can’t always muster up positive feelings about a body that doesn’t function well much of the time. This reality could set me up for some major body negativity, but I’ve found another option.

Today we’re talking all about body neutrality—what it means, how I got here, and why I’m convinced it’s the healthiest relationship I can have to my body. In this unguarded episode, my teammate Leah and I get vulnerable about our physical insecurities, the cultural beauty standards we have (and haven’t) internalized, our experiences with weight loss, and the weirdness of postpartum body changes.

If body positivity feels out of your reach, you need to hit play on this episode in your favorite podcast app.

Show Notes:

Suffer Strong - https://a.co/d/8DKyzM7

Jess Connolly - https://www.instagram.com/jessaconnolly/

Breaking Free from Body Shame by Jess Connolly - https://a.co/d/fAj7sL8

Episode 85: My New Way of Understand Beauty with Brook Hensley

My Body Neutrality writing that appeared on Live Original: https://liveoriginal.com/author/katherine-wolf/

Scriptures referenced in this episode:

2 Corinthians 4:16

2 Chronicles 20:12 (Katherine did not make it up!)

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