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On today’s episode, Alexandra Carter joins us to discuss body image. Alexandra is a professional actress-turned wellness coach and a certified intuitive eating counselor.  Alexandra shares her own struggles with body image, self-acceptance issues plus tools to help us all in those moments when try on a pair of jeans…and they don’t fit. Whether it’s preparing for your Summer beach/pool day, your family BBQ or even your regular Instagram feed scroll, the insights and guidance in this episode will be incredibly useful! Tune in to join our conversation about healing body image and finding compassion and understanding for ourselves.  

IN THIS EPISODE:

●      [03:00] Introducing Alexandra Carter.

●      [06:00] Alexandra discusses her experiences as a child actress struggling with body image.  

●      [08:00] Alexandra realized other actors also spent all of their time and energy telling themselves that they weren't good enough.

●      [12:00] Start by getting really in tune with what you're thinking and feeling.

●      [15:00] How Kristin Neff, the leading voice on self-compassion, breaks down self-compassion into three categories.

●      [18:00] How to start tying these dots together.

●      [25:00] External factors that make us believe our bodies aren’t good enough.

●      [30:00] A four-step process to assist us with comparison.

●      [35:00] How we experience body image, as if looking through a lens.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

●      Body image issues can form for a variety of reasons or from being brought up in certain environments.

●      Your inner narrative, the way you speak to yourself, impacts how you see yourself and your body.  

●      There are ways to change your body image, such as having self-compassion and keeping good boundaries when in triggering environments.

●      Stop looking through the lens and filtering yourself. Trust that you are a natural phenomenon as much as any beautiful landscape and let yourself live from that place instead of sitting behind the camera. 

QUOTES:

“I didn't think anyone else felt so wrong in their bodies. I didn't see anything wrong with anyone else, I could only see what was wrong with me.” Alexandra Carter

“We might try on a pair of pants that don't fit and all of a sudden that means we’re lazy or we’re disgusting. All of these feelings run through our head, but the truth is, the pants don't fit.” Alexandra Carter

RESOURCES:

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GUEST RESOURCES:

Alexandra Carter’s Website 

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GUEST BIO:

Alexandra Carter is a Wellness Coach & Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Driven by her own struggles with yo-yo dieting cycles & body image issues , and then discovering the incredible potential of intuitive eating and working with a qualified coach -  she drastically changed her life to help more people feel like this! She now helps people stop the endless dieting cycles, find real food freedom using an intuitive eating  & HAES approach, and cultivate real self-love that goes much further than SPA days and bath bombs!