Marin Smith is a certified yoga, meditation, and fitness instructor who feels strongly about helping women know that they matter and that the size and shape of your body have no effect on your value. In this episode, Marin talks about what moti

Ep 17. How Do I Know if I am Intuitively Eating or just Emotionally Eating?

Mar 2nd, 2021 24m 15s

Relearning to listen to your body and her signals can be challenging. It can especially start to feel murky and confusing when you are trying to differentiate between what your body "needs" and the emotions that may be driving your cravings. Th

Ep 16. When Body Positivity Can Be a Bad Thing

Feb 23rd, 2021 29m 36s

Body positivity is good! Or is it? In this episode, we discuss some of the ways that the body positivity movement has been hijacked by diet culture and what we can do to see past the misinformation and call it out. We talk about how focusing on

Ep 15. When Accepting your Body Feels like Giving Up

Feb 16th, 2021 25m 11s

If you have been dieting for years and years, the idea of accepting your body as it is can feel terrifying. Are you giving up on being healthy? Are you totally letting yourself go? Are you just going to stop progressing in all areas of your lif

Ep 14. Making Peace with Your Changing Body

Feb 9th, 2021 23m 54s

Bodies change. They were never meant to stay the same. But for some reason, we work so hard to keep them from changing even though the majority of our evidence proves that our efforts are futile. We do skin treatments, botox and other fillers,

Ep 13. Mastering Social Media: How to Make Social Media Enhance Your Life, Not Control It

Feb 2nd, 2021 29m 17s

Social media is a polarizing subject: is it good? is it bad? There are several studies that show the negative effects of social media on our body image, our self-confidence, and our happiness. At the same time, there is so much good that can b

Ep 12. Let’s Talk About Exercise!

Sep 30th, 2020 35m 24s

Exercise has forever been coupled with dieting and because of this, chances are high that you have experienced, or are currently experiencing, a love/hate, guilt/shame relationship with movement. This episode takes a look at exercise from a dif

Ep 11. Three Dangerous Body Beliefs and How to Overcome Them

Sep 22nd, 2020 33m

What we think about our bodies determines how we behave towards them. When we use our brain space to criticize and pick apart our bodies, it shouldn't be surprising to find that exercise is a chore, food is a source of punishment, and self-care

Ep 10. Can I love my body and still want to change it?

Jul 8th, 2020 23m 34s

This is a question that comes up frequently as women start making peace with their bodies. Is it possible to be grateful for your body, to respect it, and still want it to look differently? The answer is very nuanced, but in this episode we exp

Ep 9. What If Intuitive Eating Doesn't Work for Me?

Jun 30th, 2020 38m 13s

Intuitive Eating can seem like a scary prospect when you've been measuring, weighing, counting, and restricting for most of your life. What if all my body wants to eat is ice cream? What if I do it wrong? What if I can't do it all? What is Intu

Ep 8. Body Image

May 19th, 2020 23m 8s

Positive body image is a complex and nuanced subject, but it doesn't have to be. How we see and feel about our bodies directly affects how we treat them and often times we withhold thinking positively about our bodies until we wear a certain si

Ep 7. Principles for Re-establishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (Pt. 2)

May 12th, 2020 24m 5s

Continuing on from Episode 6, we continue to explore the four other principles of establishing body trust and improving our relationship with food.

Ep 6. Principles for Re-establishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (Part 1)

May 6th, 2020 28m 55s

It is important that you know that a peaceful, guilt-free, healthy relationship with food is possible! Many women express concerns that they cannot trust themselves to be around certain kinds of food without feeling like they have lost control

Ep 5. Why Diets Don't Work

May 1st, 2020 37m 43s

Have you ever committed to a new diet and worked so, so hard only to find yourself back at the same place you started? Our natural reaction is to feel shame and to blame ourselves for a lack of willpower and self-discipline. However, what if th

Ep 4. Five Daily Practices to Help You Make Peace with Your Body

Apr 21st, 2020 29m 23s

Loving your body can sometimes seem overwhelming, if not impossible. How do you love something when you feel like it is the very thing that is holding you back from being your most authentic self? What does loving your body even look like in ev

Ep 3. Your Body is Not the Problem

Apr 17th, 2020 29m 23s

It’s easy to think that in order to “change your life” you need to change your body. We end up spending our one precious life chasing the fluid, ever-changing standards of beauty and fitness when what we are looking for is actually right in fro

Ep 2. Why Are we so Afraid to Gain Weight?

Apr 15th, 2020 22m 53s

Right now we are swimming in the uncertainty of COVID-19 and quarantine life. Gyms have been closed for a month and the fear of gaining weight during this crazy time seems to be a prevalent part of our social conversation. But why? Why is the f

Ep 1. What is Body Peace Collective?

Apr 14th, 2020 5m 17s

Welcome to Body Peace Collective, a podcast created for women who are ready to let go of body hate and discover a more intentional, grace-filled way of living! This episode is a quick introduction to the purpose and intention of this podcast.

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