If you’ve ever stood in front of the mirror criticizing your body, stepped on the scale to decide whether you’re “good” or “bad” for the day, or punished yourself with food rules and workouts, this episode is for you. You cannot hate your body into health, and shame will never create lasting weight loss, hormone balance, or confidence. True transformation starts with how you talk to yourself, what you believe about your body, and the nervous system state you’re living in every single day.

In this episode I’m sharing:

• Why shame, negative self-talk, and scale obsession actually block weight loss and hormone balance
• How using the scale as a “daily worth meter” keeps women stuck in a stress–cortisol–fat storage loop
• The powerful mindset shift that helped a client lose 30 pounds and keep it off after a decade of struggle
• How joy, movement, community, and oxytocin directly support your hormones and metabolism
• The hidden ways we punish our bodies with food, workouts, and restrictions without realizing it
• A simple awareness exercise to catch and break self-sabotaging thought patterns
• How to rewire your brain using neuroplasticity so your thoughts start working for you instead of against you
• The exact practice I use with clients to replace destructive self-talk with sustainable, motivating beliefs

Sustainable health is built from self-respect, not self-loathing. When you start choosing nourishment, movement, and rest because you love your body, not because you’re trying to punish it, everything changes. This episode will help you break the shame cycle, rebuild trust with your body, and finally create results that last.

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I’m Leah Brueggemann, a Functional Diagnostic Nutritional® Practitioner and Hormone Health Coach, helping you balance your hormones in effective and realistic ways so you can live a healthier, happier life.

Through the Balance Hormones Naturally podcast, you’ll discover why your cycle is so important to your everyday health and how you can use nutrition to help support the rise and fall of your hormones and finally feel truly amazing. We dig deep to understand and heal the root causes of your symptoms so you can achieve lasting results through manageable and realistic lifestyle changes, allowing you to live a healthy and balanced life without a life-long pharmaceutical prescription.

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