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Ok truth time: how many of you judge a day - or a meal - as “good” or “bad” based upon what you ate (or didn’t eat) that day? 🙋‍♀️🙋🏿🙋🏽‍♂️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I just had this convo with a client, which inspired this (accidentally long) thread. Your body does NOT magically reset every night at midnight. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ That means you need to stop judging a day (or meal) as "good" or "bad" based upon some arbitrary standard or food/diet rules. This is a type of binary thinking which sets you up for only 1 of 2 options: success or failure. This leaves no space for you to engage, reflect, learn or grow. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Binary thinking makes us feel safe, like we have control. Diet culture plays right into that: “if you do this, everything will be ok”. But life does not exist in the binary. And when we talk about food and bodies, reducing ourselves to such inflexible, black and white terms limits us from growing and changing. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Binary thinking also causes a disconnect between body and mind. Instead of listening to your body, you end up reacting to the labels and judgments that are placed up the food (or you). It also causes guilt and shame, and can lead to self-punishing behaviors (often using food). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Instead, if you can suspend judgment, and sit with any uneasiness or anxiety that arises, a third element emerges: the grey area ⬜️◻️◽️ I know I know, everyone hates the grey area. But it is here where the most meaningful learning and growing and changing occurs. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Living in the grey presents each life experience (& eating experience) as an opportunity to learn & experiment, rather than to pass or fail. The grey area allows for nuance & flexibility to emerge. You can then make decisions based on body cues instead of your external environment. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In terms of nutrition the grey area means zooming out & looking at the big picture. Take a look at your overall eating patterns: Cont in the comments👇
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I am thrilled to be going live with @notquitebeyonce TOMORROW at 12pm EDT/9am PDT to discuss her new book 'Don't Let it Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body'. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This was hands down one of the best books I've read this year. I devoured this book in a matter of days and have gone back and re-read many of the essays since. Full of powerful, poignant essays on bodies, race, class, and gender in America today, this book brought up so many emotions in me.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I hope you'll join us for our conversation: tomorrow (Wednesday Oct 20th) at 12pm EDT / 9am PDT live here on my Instagram.
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There is ONE spot left in The Liberated Body! If you’d like to join this incredible group of women, click the link in my bio to learn more 🥳 The Liberated Body is a 9-month group coaching program for women who want to get free from dieting, body shame & the negative social conditioning that holds you back so that you can live your biggest, most beautiful life unapologetically. If you're looking for a supportive, inspirational group that will help you reconnect to your body & yourself, experience more joy, more connection & more freedom - then I'd love for you to join us in The Liberated Body. The program includes 9 months of unlearning, unpacking, interrogating, deconditioning, truth-seeking, connection, restoration & personal growth, done both individually and collectively in community with one another. This is an intimate group & will be capped at 15 people to best foster connection, support & community. What's included: -3x per month live group coaching calls - 27 calls total -Monthly videos lessons + workbooks that walk you through my Unapologetic Living framework. -A private online community where you’ll be able to ask questions, get support, share your wins, & get to know me + the other group members. -2, 60-minute 1:1 coaching sessions w/ me (option to add-on more) -3-month membership to Leavell Up Fitness, a body-positive fitness community w/ @laurenleavellfitness -Exclusive workshops w/ expert guests (including @fierce.fatty & @bodyimagewithbri so far - more to come!) -Monthly live guided meditation sessions If you're ready to stop trying to control or “fix” your body, to make peace with food, so you can allow (& trust) yourself to just be - I'd love to have you join us ❤️ Link in bio for more info!
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Friday reminder ❤️✨ So many of us have internalized a sense of being "not enough" (or "too much") and have usually been trying to "fix" ourselves for years. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Now, it’s a natural human impulse to want to “fix” our problems. But have you ever thought more deeply about where this belief - that something is wrong with you or your body - came from? Hint: it didn't come from within you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Our culture is hostile towards women's bodies (and minds). From a very young age, we are taught that the value we have in the world is linked to our appearance and to other people’s evaluation of our appearance. We are taught to diet and shrink ourselves to assimilate and be accepted. So many of us do. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ We spend a huge portion of our time, money, and energy attempting to “fix” ourselves to fit into the status quo. But if we didn’t believe that belly rolls or jiggly thighs were an issue, would we spend our money, time, or mental energy worrying about what we are eating and how we look? The diet industry makes > $100 billion/year selling the idea that fat is bad, that our bodies need to be changed, and that we need to follow rules to "control" ourselves. And if we were all comfortable in our own skin, the diet industry goes out of business 💁‍♀️ All of these beauty and body ideals are not of your creation, they were handed to you by society (and by advertisers and companies who make money selling a “solution” to fix these "problems"). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bottom line: you are not broken. The problem lies not with you, but with society. And you can choose to divest from the unrealistic body or beauty standards and instead get to decide who YOU are, underneath all you've been told you "should" be❤️❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If you’re done trying to “fix” yourself and want to reconnect and allow yourself to be - there are just TWO spots left in The Liberated Body, we’d love to have you join us! Link in bio for more info🤗🤩

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