The Dialogue with Your Body (feat. Nina Manolson)

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Today we are joined by Body-Peace® coach, Nina Manolson to discuss body peace. Nina talks about creating a relationship with our bodies and learning to be at peace with our current bodies. She discusses how we learn to tune in to our body’s language and how to create new neuropathways to have a more empowering relationship and dialogue with ourselves. Nina talks about the disconnect we experience when we beat ourselves up and how to rekindle that relationship. Join us today to learn more about creating body peace, approach ourselves with kindness, and appreciate our present place.

IN THIS EPISODE: 

●   [6:15] Nina discusses her past and what led her to this career.

●   [11:34] What does body peace mean, and what does it look like? 

●   [14:30] Nina shares her poem Am I bigger than her?

●   [15:57] Why do we beat ourselves up, and how can we move on from that mindset? 

●   [22:28] What is the first step to building a relationship with our body?

●   [29:22] How do we learn our body's language? 

●   [37:13] How do we go through the class of learning to dialogue with our body? 

●   [39:28] What are neuropathways, and how do they work? 

●   [41:36] Nina talks to us about finding a term of endearment to use in conversation with the body.

●   [43:30] How can we think about body peace through aging?

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

●   Body peace is the relationship with our body. It means being happy in your current body, not wanting to change everything. How much of your life are you wasting your body when you could use that energy to do so many more amazing things?

●   You can choose to be at war with your body or in a relationship with your body. You must become one with your body. This is the longest relationship in your life; if you are disconnected, your body shuts down. When we feel relaxed in our bodies, we feel good.

●   Pause to actually listen to what your body is saying. You will get these answers by listening to your body’s sensations, such as aching knees, exhaustion, feeling vibrant, etc. Get curious about when and why those sensations appear in order to understand what your body is trying to tell you. 

●   Our bodies will change throughout our lives. Learning to be body-current can help you through aging. Have the mindset that ‘this is my current body’, and ask how you can support, engage, and nurture your current body?

QUOTES: 

“When we're always criticizing our bodies, always like, oh, we didn't do it right, that's a foundation of insecurity and instability.” - Nina Manolson

“When we approach ourselves with kindness, with care, with this kind of slowed down style instead of this hustle hustle hustle, go go go style, then that door opens to what is the issue underneath that really needs to be addressed and healed? What's going on? Am I afraid that I won't be loved, am I afraid that I'm not acceptable, am I afraid that I don't have enough social currency as the woman in the size 00, right? So what's going on here? And so, self-compassion is way more powerful now; self-love, self-compassion, and kindness is not the same as giving up on ourselves. It's actually being deeply connected to ourselves, deeply respectful to ourselves, and deeply on our own side.” - Nina Manolson

“When we’re more expressive, we are doing our actual work in the world. What we’re meant to do here. When we’re obsessed with our body, with our food, all of our energy is going to this tiny little loop of dieting, and we’re pulling away our energy from a world that desperately needs us, we’re leaking our power.” - Nina Manolson

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Nina Manolson is a Body-Peace® coach. She helps people end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their body—as it is. She is known for her deeply feminist, anti-diet, body-peace approach. She brings her 30 years experience as a therapist, Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Body-Trust® Guide, and Psychology of Eating Teacher to helping women create a respectful and trusting relationship with their food and body.

Nina’s Body-Peace work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living, which creates a positive, long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching, and poetry positively change the conversation that women have with their bodies. She also writes Body-Poems as a way to encourage a shift in the way we talk to and about our bodies.