Go Love Yourself

Anyone else on 🌶spicy🌶 book tok or is it just Lauren? A good romance book written by a woman just hits different, but it can be really hard to find the right one (almost as hard as reading one in public🤣)!! So in this episode, Lauren’s telling us what we should look, which books to start with, and where we can find books with good fat rep. But will it be enough to convince Laura to try one out?! Plus, one of our favourite authors, Bethany Rutter, joins us to chat about the importance of representation, what it’s like in the publishing industry, and what it’s like writing spicy scenes…

We know what's coming this time of year - fitness plans, fad diets, and allll the before and after photos. It's almost impossible to escape the weight of diet culture, but we're here to chat you through living your best anti-diet culture life in 2023. Because we all deserve to live our best lives, regardless of what size knickers we wear or what society thinks of us!! We also catch up about our Christmases, what we loved and hated in 2022, our goals for this year, and our insanely exciting partnership with Apple!!!!

Happy one year of GLY-aversary!! It's been such a great year, so we've put together some of our favourite moments. It includes some ICONIC guests, really funny moments, and some more powerful bits as we learn more about loving ourselves and our bodies. So a warning that it includes references to disordered eating, issues with body image, and mental health from the start. If you're struggling and need to talk to someone, please call the Samaritans at 116 123. Someone will always be there to listen, day or night, and it’s free for all UK phone numbers. Or you can email [email protected]. We love you all so much, and we'll see you next week for a new episode!!

In the meantime, if you'd like to the listen to the full episodes in this compilation, they're all linked below:

Clip 1 and 2 - Self Love (and the other kind of self love...) 

Clip 3 - Our Great British Bake Off Experiences (WITH JANUSZ!!!)

Clip 4 - The Scary Reality of Weight Loss TV

Clip 5 - Sex and Intimacy with Sexfluencer Scotty Unfamous

Clip 6 - Let's Talk About Body Privilege

Here's a show we think you'll enjoy. Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education) stars in this dark, near-future science fiction fairytale about a robot who can feel, and the world that attempts to control her. When a robot called Eliza falls in love with Him (Arthur Darvill, Doctor Who), they work together to make her fully sentient. But consciousness doesn't come without consequences As Eliza gets caught in a web of both loving and abusive relationships, she has to fight to survive. If you'd like to hear more of Eliza's story, search Eliza: A Robot Story wherever you get your podcasts.

CONTENT WARNING: Eliza contains strong language and adult themes, including depictions of domestic violence, sexual assault and references to rape that some may find triggering. It is intended for mature audiences.

Eliza is a Crowd Network original made in partnership with The Pankhurst Trust / Manchester Women’s Aid. If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, help is available now. You can call the 24/7 national helpline on 0808 2000 247 and get free confidential advice at https://www.womensaid.org.uk/

Ohhhh it's a spicy one. We both have polar opposite views about Harry and Meghan so we need to talk about! Plus it's the final episode of season 2 (😢), so we're getting all reflective about what we've learnt this year, how are relationships with food/movement are at the moment, and what we're hoping for in 2023, and most importantly, HOW we can get Lizzo on the pod. We're also chatting dream Christmas meals and getting WAY too excited about it. We'll be back with a new season in January! As long as we don't have another fight about the Royals...

But in the meantime, you can find us on instagram at @goloveyourselfpod, on Facebook at the Go Love Yourself Community group, or on email at [email protected]. Plus tickets to our live show in March are still available!

If you'd like to join our Zoom call on December 21st, you can join our upper tier of Patreon at patreon.com/goloveyourself. Or, if you'd like to support the show and get ad-free and early episodes, you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

After nearly a year of the pod we're FINALLY chatting about what being on Bake Off is really like behind the scenes. Laura has allll the 2020 tea to spill, like Prue's potty mouth, who she secretly hated and when her opinion of Paul Hollywood changed. Plus we're chatting to everyone's favourite contestant, 2022 semi-finalist Janusz, about his Bake Off friendships, the bake that was inspired by vaping, and what really happened to the spring rolls...

TICKETS FOR OUR LONDON LIVE SHOW ARE NOW ON SALE AND CAN BE FOUND HERE 🤩

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What are we meant to do when that random aunt starts spewing diet culture or asking us why we’ve put on weight?!?! Allll year round people feel like they’re allowed to comment on your body or offer unsolicited “advice” for your “health”. But this time of year, it can be so much harder because people close to you feel like they can make these types of comments, and you can’t avoid them because it happens at family events. Plus there’s the INEVITABLE “when are you having kids?” and comments about indulging now and dieting later.  So we NEED to talk about setting boundaries, calling out your family and dealing with Christmas diet culture. Plus, we chat about present ideas during the cost-of-living crisis, and taking the stress out of it all.

TICKETS FOR OUR LIVE SHOW ARE NOW ON SALE AND CAN BE FOUND HERE 🤩

Have you heard?! We're doing our first ever live show in London on Friday March 3rd! It'll be in Bush Hall in West London, and tickets are £17.50. They go on sale next Tuesday (the 29th) or if you're an Apple or Patreon subscriber, you'll be able to access a pre-sale from TOMORROW at 10am!

You can get your tickets here!

And if you want access to the pre-sale, you can subscribe on Apple or Patreon.

Love you lots see you soooooon xxx

We've been wanting to talk about this forever because society LOVES to make us scared of ageing and the menopause. There's always been so much stigma around it that people end up suffering in silence. And it looks so different on everyone that people can end up feeling confused, alone, unsupported by doctors, and a bit like they're going mad. But menopause is completely normal, there is help out there, and you're not alone. So in this episode, we're chatting to the fabulous Vickie aka INPOlife about her experience getting a hysterectomy at 40, fighting for 5 years to get a menopause diagnosis, and what living with menopause is like for her. Plus, Laura is absolutely convinced that Vickie was on Eastenders, and..... WE HAVE A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT! We're doing a live show in London on Friday March 3rd🤩 Tickets will go on sale next Tuesday at 10am, OR for our Patrons and Apple subscribers, there'll be a pre-sale from 10am this Friday! A code to access this will be posted on our Patreon and read out on a special subscriber ep on Apple. Tickets with be £17.50, and the show will be at Bush Hall in West London. If you have any questions about the venue, feel free to email us at [email protected] xxx

This episode has been sponsored by Wild Deodorant and Wine52. For a limited time deal of 40% off across all products at Wild, head here or enter code LOVE at checkout. Or for 3 bottle of wine for £8.99 head to wine52.com/love.

We’re flying solo this week because we neeeeed to catch up about Lauren entering her sexy era. I mean, did you SEE that thirst trap?!? And if you’ve been listening for a while, you’ll know this is a huge shift from a few months ago. So we need to know what’s changed and WHAT HER SECRET IS! We both kind of broadly represent two types of listener - the single one entering her hoe season, and the one in a long-term marriage who’s not even thinking about feeling sexy. So hopefully there’s lots you guys can relate to as we unpack it alll, and some helpful tips if you want to find your inner sexy goddess! In the words of Scotty Unfamous… SEXY IS A VIBE, IT’S NOT ABOUT HOW YOU LOOK.