I Hate My Body and I’m Anxious All the Time: Let’s Talk About Why

One comment. One comparison. One moment that quietly changes how you see yourself.

In this raw solo episode, Sari opens up about a heartbreaking conversation with her 13-year-old daughter — and how body shame doesn’t usually start with self-hate… it starts with trying to belong. Skipping meals. Comparing bodies. Believing your body needs fixing before you’re allowed to feel confident, loved, or enough.

Sari weaves her own story — growing up as a dancer, being told her body wasn’t “right,” chasing impossible standards — and how those moments didn’t just hurt… they fueled years of anxiety, control, and never feeling at home in her own skin.

This episode isn’t about pretending to love your body.
 It’s about ending the war with it — and reclaiming your peace.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How body shame quietly fuels anxiety, overthinking, and chronic self-criticism
• Why comparison gets wired into us early — and how to begin unlearning it
• The connection between food, control, and the need to feel “enough”
• How cultural beauty standards shape anxiety without us realizing it
• What it actually means to feel safe and at home in your body again
• How to stop fixing yourself and start listening instead

✨ Key Takeaway

Your body is not the problem.
 The story you were taught about it is.

When you stop fighting your body, your nervous system softens — and life opens back up.

🎧 Support Inside This Episode

• A grounding reflection to help you notice where body shame first took root
• Honest questions to help you interrupt old patterns of comparison and control

🌱 Resources & Next Steps

• Free Meditation: New Year, New You — a guided practice to calm your nervous system and reconnect with your body Click Here!
• Freedom Roadmap Session: A free, one-on-one conversation to explore what’s keeping you stuck and how to move toward feeling confident, grounded, and alive again Click Here!

body shame healing • anxiety and body image • self-worth • food anxiety • comparison trap • feeling at home in your body • healing anxiety • breaking old patterns • nervous system support

Final Note

If body shame has shaped your anxiety, your relationship with food, or how you see yourself — you are not broken, and you are not alone.

Are you willing to fight for your right to feel fucking amazing…
or are you going to keep allowing the suffering?

There is another way — and you don’t have to walk it alone.

You made it here, and that means something.