Have you ever wanted to relax around your appearance — your body, your weight, your age — but felt a deep fear at the thought of letting go?

In this episode of Unlearning Beautiful, Kristina Bruce explores why appearance control can feel so necessary, even when it’s exhausting. You’ll learn how beauty standards became tied to women’s survival, why those beliefs still live in our nervous systems, and how managing your appearance can turn into a prison.

This conversation isn’t about “just loving yourself” or giving up on caring how you look. It’s about understanding the survival-based conditioning that keeps pulling you back into monitoring, fixing, and controlling — and how real peace and self-worth come from addressing those beliefs at the root.

In this episode, you’ll explore:

• Why beauty, thinness, and youth became linked to safety
• How appearance pressure is inherited, not personal
• Why approval never creates lasting peace
• The role your nervous system plays in keeping up the chase
• What it actually means to loosen your grip and feel free

If you’re tired of managing your appearance and ready to relax while still feeling good in yourself, this episode will speak directly to you.

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This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.

Achieving your goal weight can feel empowering, but why does the confidence fade so quickly?

In this episode of Unlearning Beautiful, Kristina Bruce explores why body goals don’t create lasting happiness and how the pursuit of thinness, health, or appearance often becomes a form of productive avoidance—keeping us focused on what’s measurable instead of what’s meaningful.

You’ll hear:
• Why confidence based on appearance is conditional
• How body goals become tied to worth, safety, and belonging
• The difference between external validation and internal peace
• Questions to help you uncover what you truly want
• Journal prompts to support self-discovery and alignment

This episode is for women who feel tired of letting their body define their value—and are ready to listen to a deeper calling from within. 

 ✨ Get personalized support by booking an Introductory Coaching Session: https://www.kristinabruce.com/private-coaching

✨ Get the free Body Peace Video Series — your first step to feeling free in your body: www.kristinabruce.com/bodypeace

✨ Connect with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/kristinabrucecoach

✨ Learn more about my work: https://www.kristinabruce.com

This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.

If diets created self-love, I would have loved myself a long time ago.
After trying 25 different weight-loss plans, I kept discovering the same truth: no amount of weight loss could change the way I felt about myself. Because self-love doesn’t come from changing your appearance — it comes from changing your relationship with yourself.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why weight-loss “success” feels so intoxicating
• How conditional love shapes our body beliefs
• The fears that make letting go of dieting feel unsafe
• The emotional cost of constantly managing your appearance
• What actually created self-love and inner trust

If you’re tired of chasing a body you think you need in order to feel okay, this episode will show you a different path — one rooted in unconditional self-love, not self-fixing.

✨ Get the free Body Peace Video Series — your first step to feeling free in your body: http://www.kristinabruce.com/bodypeace

✨ Get personalized support by booking an Introductory Coaching Session: https://www.kristinabruce.com/private-coaching

✨ Connect with me on Instagram: https://instagram.com/kristinabrucecoach

✨ Learn more about my work: https://www.kristinabruce.com

This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.

Stress eating isn’t about discipline. It’s an understandable response from a stressed-out nervous system — and a deeper signal from your beliefs, emotions, and unmet needs. In this episode, Kristina breaks down:

• Why emotional eating shows up, even when you “know better”
• How hidden dieting and subtle restriction trigger stress eating
• Why food becomes a coping tool (and why that’s normal)
• The role exhaustion and anxiety play in overeating
• The deeper beliefs that quietly fuel the stress-eating cycle
• Three powerful practices to calm your system and change the pattern
   — without willpower, control, or shame

This episode will help you understand what’s really going on underneath emotional eating, and how to create change from a place of compassion and awareness — not force.

Resources Mentioned:

✨ Get the free Body Peace Video Series — your first step to feeling free in your body: www.kristinabruce.com/bodypeace

✨ Get personalized support by booking an Introductory Coaching Session: https://www.kristinabruce.com/private-coaching

✨ Connect with me on Instagram:
 https://instagram.com/kristinabrucecoach

✨ Learn more about my work:
 https://www.kristinabruce.com

This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.

We’re told that once we finally have the body, everything will fall into place — confidence, happiness, ease in our own skin. But what if the body you’re chasing is actually pulling you further away from the life you really want?

In this first episode of Unlearning Beautiful, I share my personal story: growing up in a culture and family fixated on weight, finally becoming the “ideal” thin woman everyone praised, and realizing that the more I tried to control my body, the more stressed and unhappy I became.

I talk about the moment I broke down in tears on my bedroom floor, decided I couldn’t live like that anymore, and began the scary, messy process of letting go of dieting.

In this episode, I walk you through:

• How early comments about your body (and others’) can become “truths” about your worth
• What happens when health and wellness become socially acceptable forms of body obsession
• The “chaos phase” of letting go of restriction — and why it’s actually a bridge to real peace
• How intuitive eating, Health at Every Size®, and questioning painful beliefs helped me rebuild trust with myself
• What life feels like now, on the other side of dieting and body obsession

If you see yourself in this story — if you’ve spent years chasing a smaller body and still don’t feel free — this episode is for you.

Resources & Links:
Body Peace Video Series (free): https://www.kristinabruce.com/bodypeace

Introductory Coaching Session: https://www.kristinabruce.com/private-coaching

Instagram: https://instagram.com/kristinabrucecoach

Website: https://www.kristinabruce.com

This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.

Welcome to Unlearning Beautiful—a podcast about releasing body insecurity, moving beyond dieting, and reconnecting with your truest self.

Hosted by Body Peace & Self-Trust Coach Kristina Bruce, this show explores what it means to find peace and confidence in your body by unlearning the beliefs that have kept you stuck. Through coaching insights, real stories, and honest reflections, we'll discover the inner wisdom that's been there all along.

New episodes begin December 11, 2025.

Ready to start your journey? Get the free Body Peace Video Series at www.kristinabruce.com/bodypeace

CONNECT WITH KRISTINA:

• Website: https://www.kristinabruce.com
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/kristinabrucecoach
• Book a 1:1 Introductory Coaching Session: https://www.kristinabruce.com/private-coaching

This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental health advice.