Joanne Larby talks body neutrality, avoiding comparison, breakups, and healing a broken heart

Welcome back to The Other Side Of Perfect and Episode 1 of Season 2, I’ve been really excited to get stuck into this series. The guests that I have coming up have the most wonderful careers and truly captivating stories, and after each interview I walk away feeling utterly inspired so I know there's massive benefit in what they have to say. Similar to last season I wanted to kick things off with a solo show. It's been massively requested and I’ve no idea why, but my most listened episode was the one I did on my own covering my life story, career and how I got to where I am now. I figured it would be a lovely way to format things going forward and also reconnect with you the listeners. I would like to also take this opportunity to thank you lot for making the show land in the Top 10 Best Listens of 2019 in its new category on Apple Podcasts. Receiving that email from Apple was a lovely little moment, and this whole passion project has grown into something that I’m really excited to expand on in 2020. We also have some amazing new sponsors on board, and I want to let you know that I choose my sponsors as carefully as I choose my brand partnerships on social media, so these will always be relevant to my listenership and benefit you in some way.

On today's show I discuss the real life stress you don't see on social media; my recent melt down, feeling overwhelmed and dealing with comparison. I wanted to sit down and have a chat about two of the most common topics that I'm regularly asked about through social media. I run through a variety of your anonymous questions about body image and break ups. Getting to a state of body neutrality; learning to love the body you have today, realising you have the power to change it if you're truly unhappy, weight fluctuations, period bloat, getting back on the bandwagon and my motivational tips. I also discuss healing a broken heart, trying not to focus on the status of your friends, improving your self esteem after a toxic relationship, and being single.

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