Find Your Strong Podcast
Encouraging people to find what FEELS good in terms of food, movement and their bodies. Let's challenge the wellness w*nkery and start a new conversation.
In each episode, Christine and Ela discuss their thoughts on diet and fitness fads, speak with fabulous guests about their experiences with finding peace with food and movement, and interview experts so that they can share their insights and knowledge with you.
The hope is that together we can change the narrative around nutrition and exercise and help you find YOUR strong!
Find Your Strong Podcast
Am I Bigger Than Her? A Conversation with Body Peace Coach, Nina Manolson
Nina Manolson is a body peace coach, who help her clients end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their bodies, as they are now.*
From the first second I started chatting with Nina, I was touched by her empathy and warmth. She was 100% present with me and was deeply invested in this conversation.
I first came across Nina many years ago on the Fit and Fearless podcast on BBC Radio1 with Tally Rye, Victoria Niamh Spence, and Zanna Van Dijk.
She read a poem on air called 'I feel fat' and she spoke about her therapist asking her,
"but if you didn't feel fat, what would you be feeling?"
Her words resonated deeply with me and since I started the podcast in January, I've been so excited to have her on as a guest.
We talk about the following topics:
- How do we be 'body current' and accept and find peace with the bodies we are in now?
- Embodiment. How body image healing can only start to happen from the inside out.
- How can we accept our bodies when the goalposts change through peri to post menopause?
- How do we start feeling more like ourselves when our bodies start to change.
- How getting curious about the body thoughts that arise can help us lead with self-compassion.
- How to NOT compare our bodies to those of others
Nina ends by reading a beautiful poem she wrote on the 'compare & despair' that we so often feel.
Am I Bigger Than Her?
Am I bigger than her?
I ask my husband
As a woman passes on the street
Am I bigger than her?
I ask myself, as I walk into the room
Measuring up all the women
Am I bigger than her?
I look at a picture of younger me
A “memory” on Facebook from years ago
Am I bigger than her?
I am asking:
Am I less attractive?
less powerful?
less likable?
less worthy than her?
Comparing myself to her size
And her size
And her size
If I’m bigger than her, then I’m less than her
If I’m smaller than her, then I’m more than her
And her size and her size and her size
My self worth going up and down with each comparison
Scoring points in a game against myself
There’s always someone bigger
And always someone smaller
There’s no winning this game
It’s just reducing women to their size
Aren’t we bigger than that?
~Nina Manolson
You can find Nina on Instagram or contact her through her website where all of Nina's Body Peace offerings are available.
For free resources, click here to access Nina's Body Peace Journal or here to access her free virtual masterclass and body poems.
*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 & li
Please reach out if you would like some support with your relationship to food OR movement. Ela currently has limited spaces for Intuitive Eating coaching and if you'd like to reconnect with movement, contact Christine.
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