Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

Have you ever lost something and spent hours frantically looking for it everywhere and then the item shows up when you’re not searching for it? And better yet, it shows up in the place you swear you’ve looked? When you’re rushing, you’re stuck in your own anxious headspace, not actually connected to yourself and your surroundings. Tune in to learn about the power of slowing down, and how it can help you harness your intuition. Plus, Mary shares 5 simple ways to practice slowing down in your daily life.

Remember: When you pause, you breathe, and when you breathe, you harness your power.

If you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and tag @maryspodcast on social media! And make sure to get Mary’s books two on self-love:

The Gift of Self-Love: https://maryscupoftea.com/gift-of-self-love. This is a self-love workbook that will help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to finally love yourself.

100 Days of Self-Love: maryscupoftea.com/journal. This is a guided journal with 100 prompts to help you calm self-criticism and learn to love who you are.

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After an epic safari honeymoon, Mary and her husband recap their trip to Tanzania + Zanzibar.

They talk about…

We hope this inspires you to add Tanzania to your bucket list (perhaps as a honeymoon destination)! Hotel recs are linked in the episode description. :)

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If you’ve ever felt like something or someone is “too good to be true” then this episode is for you. Mary talks about a model for strengthening your sense of self-worth, so that you finally feel worthy of things that are good AND true.

Remember: when what you WANT does not align with what you BELIEVE, you will experience an inner battle filled with doubt, fear, and self-sabotage. As you’re figuring out what you want, do not neglect the power of your beliefs.

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If you were raised in a restrictive, religious environment, this episode is for you. Morgan Haley joins us for a relatable and validating conversation about unsubscribing from beliefs that don’t serve you and discovering your own identity. FYI, we challenge and reject religious dogma that’s rooted in fear, shame, and hate.

You will learn...

Remember: there is no timeline for the healing process.

Morgan, or @findingmorgantyler on IG, is a queer fitness and yoga instructor whose goal is to bring you approachable workouts that you feel confident doing from the comfort of your home. She speaks openly about leaving religious dogma, discovering her sexuality, and healing from shame through movement. You can find the links to her app as well as her programs via the link in her IG bio.

Follow Morgan on Instagram: @findingmorgantyler

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Have you ever thought to yourself, “I feel like a failure”? As a Type A, self-motivated, achievement-driven kind of person, failure is something you might feel often… even when you haven’t actually failed. The worst kind of failure is when you don’t meet your OWN expectation of success (which is more often than not) and find yourself stuck in a never-ending cycle of “feeling like a failure.”

In this episode, you will learn...

Remember: Anything that feels like failure right now is pushing you, preparing you, and pointing you toward the path you’re actually meant to be on.

If you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and tag @maryspodcast on social media! And make sure to get Mary’s books two on self-love:

The Gift of Self-Love: https://maryscupoftea.com/gift-of-self-love. This is a self-love workbook that will help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to finally love yourself.

100 Days of Self-Love: maryscupoftea.com/journal. This is a guided journal with 100 prompts to help you calm self-criticism and learn to love who you are.

This episode is sponsored by Ritual — made for skeptical people like us that care about our health in a non-diet-culture-y kind of way. I researched a ton of multivitamins and thankfully landed on Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ multivitamin. Let me tell you, this vitamin is an ✨experience✨. It has a minty-essence that makes taking your multis actually enjoyable. The bottle is transparent as are the capsules which have 9 key nutrients in 2, relatively small, capsules per day. And thanks to their commitment to traceable ingredients, you can trust what you’re putting in your body. Ritual’s Essential for Women 18+ is a multivitamin you can actually trust. Ritual is offering my listeners 20% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/MARY20 to start Ritual or add Essential for Women 18+ to your subscription today.

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Have you ever thought that you were happier when you were thinner/ prettier/ younger/ etc?

In a culture that values thinness and beauty, it’s hard not to believe that your value lies in your appearance. We buy into arbitrary beauty ideals and false promises, killing ourselves to look a certain way.

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Lindsay Kite, co-author of the book More Than a Body and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, to talk about where beauty standards come from and how to stop self objectification.

You will learn...

• the missing piece of the puzzle when we talk about body-image
• how the male gaze affects body-image
• why losing weight and changing your appearance never solves the problem
• ways to combat toxic beauty standards and build body image resilience

Remember: keeping up with beauty ideals is a losing game. Adhering to society’s definition of beauty does NOT buy body love, confidence, health, happiness or self worth. Usually, it only exacerbates body image and self love struggles.

Dr. Lindsay Kite is co-author of the book More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament (2020, HarperCollins) and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, alongside her identical twin sister Lexie Kite. Both received PhDs from the University of Utah in the study of female body image and have become leading experts in body image resilience and media literacy. Lindsay and Lexie help girls and women recognize and reject the harmful effects of objectification in their lives through their social media activism (IG @beauty_redefined), online course (morethanabody.org), and regular speaking engagements for people of all ages. Lindsay lives in New York City.

Follow Lindsay on Instagram: @beauty_redefined
Get Lindsay and Lexie Kite’s book, More Than a Body: https://www.morethanabody.org/more-than-a-body-book/

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Lindsay’s TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/uDowwh0EU4w

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Mary shares her lessons learned from traveling and talks about how putting yourself in a new environment is the best way to heal.

You will learn...

Remember: you cannot heal in the same environment that you got sick.

If you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and tag @maryspodcast on social media! And make sure to get Mary’s books two on self-love:

The Gift of Self-Love: https://maryscupoftea.com/gift-of-self-love. This is a self-love workbook that will help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to finally love yourself.

100 Days of Self-Love: maryscupoftea.com/journal. This is a guided journal with 100 prompts to help you calm self-criticism and learn to love who you are.

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Self-love is relational. We NEED people in our lives and gathering is how we build and nurture community. Today Priya Parker is on the show to teach us about the art of gathering, specifically as it pertains to weddings.

You will learn...

Remember: Weddings are symbolic, ritualistic, and a rite of passage for everyone involved. If done in an artful way, weddings can be a beautiful way to begin a marriage… tune in to learn how.

Priya Parker is a facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, and executive producer and host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has spent 20 years guiding leaders and groups through complicated conversations about community, identity, and vision at moments of transition. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and two children.

Follow Priya on Instagram: @priyaparker

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If you believe you’re boring, you’re more likely to silence your voice, not share your story, not express your gifts.

If you want to put yourself out there whether it’s while dating, at work, trying to start a new business, become a content creator, make new friends, etc, you have to STOP thinking that you’re boring… because you’re not!!

Here’s a 10-minute pep-talk for anyone who feels like they’re boring or not interesting enough.

If you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and tag @maryspodcast on social media! And make sure to get Mary’s books two on self-love:

The Gift of Self-Love: https://maryscupoftea.com/gift-of-self-love. This is a self-love workbook that will help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to finally love yourself.

100 Days of Self-Love: maryscupoftea.com/journal. This is a guided journal with 100 prompts to help you calm self-criticism and learn to love who you are.

Mentioned In This Episode...

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WOW!!! This one is going down in history as one of our favorite episodes. Get ready to feel seen, heard, and understood thanks to this conversation with Eve Rodsky about the INVISIBLE and UNPAID labor of women.

Note: though we speak in heteronormative terms, this conversation is for anyone who feels like they’re taking on more responsibility in their relationship than their partner. And if you’re single/ dating and see yourself in a long-term partnership in the future, NOW is the time to start thinking about what “fair play” looks like.

You will learn...

Remember: these gender imbalances are NOT YOUR FAULT nor are they your partner’s. There are a lot of cultural assumptions at play here and it’s time to dismantle them to create “fair play” between men and women.

Eve Rodsky transformed her “blueberries breakdown” into a catalyst for social change when she applied her Harvard-trained background in organizational management to ask the simple yet profound question: What would happen if we treated our homes as our most important organizations? Her New York Times bestselling book and Reese’s Book Club Pick, Fair Play, a gamified life-management system that helps partners rebalance their domestic workload and reimagine their relationship, has elevated the cultural conversation about the value of unpaid labor and care. In her highly anticipated follow-up, Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World, Rodsky explores the cross-section between the science of creativity, productivity, and resilience. Described as the ‘antidote to physical, mental, and emotional burnout,’ Rodsky aims to inspire a new narrative around the equality of time and the individual right to personal time choice that influences sustainable and lasting change on a policy level. Rodsky’s work is backed by Hello Sunshine—Reese Witherspoon’s media company whose mission is to change the narrative for women through storytelling. Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Seth and their three children.

Learn more about Fair Play and Unicorn Space at fairplaylife.com

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