Learning to Love our Bodies, with Courtney Gioia

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Courtney Gioia is the founder of Loyobo, a community for women who are sick of trying to be smaller. This ISN'T about weight loss for Courtney. This is about learning how to love your body and feel strong so you can take up space in your body AND in your life.
AMEN to that!
It was such a joy for me to chat with Courtney and throughout our conversation there were pinnacle points, where Courtney's words hit home and her lived experience shone through. We are not here, in the non-diet space, saying once you ditch the diet, life is easy. Far from it. Thin privilege is real and sometimes finding food freedom and learning to accept your body as it changes, is like swimming upstream. But as Dory says....just keep swimming.
To find out more about Courtney and how she works with clients, you can reach her on Instagram OR you can find all her latest offers here: https://www.loyobofit.com/

Are you simply fed up with hating your body? Are you stuck in the 'earn and burn' cycle when it comes to exercise?
You are not alone and your body is NOT the problem
Please reach out if you would like some support. We both have limited slots for Intuitive Eating and Strength Coaching, so get in touch with Christine or with Ela.
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1. Learning to Love our Bodies, with Courtney Gioia (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to Courtney (00:01:32)

3. How Courtney found the non-diet Space? (00:03:09)

4. Healing our relationship to movement (00:05:47)

5. Drinking the diet culture coolade (00:06:55)

6. Discovering undieting (00:07:46)

7. The grief associated with time lost to dieting (00:11:08)

8. Readiness to do the work (00:11:48)

9. Thin privilege (00:13:05)

10. The problem with commenting on people's bodies (00:15:26)

11. Cultivating self-respect in a bigger body (00:16:00)

12. Genetic disposition (00:17:51)

13. Finding your body's happy place (00:19:10)

14. How the world would look different if we deprioritised how our bodies look (00:22:35)

15. Finding body acceptance with self-compassion (00:26:20)

16. How do we show our bodies some love? (00:28:13)

17. The beauty of imperfection (00:31:24)

18. How to deal with body image triggers (00:33:26)