How to Feel Happier in Your Body with Jessamyn Stanley

Pushkin. Hey Happiness Lab listeners, it's just about the start of summer, which means we're finally coming to the end of our special series on spring cleaning your happiness. But since swimsuit season is around the corner, I wanted to end this series with one final thing that many of us need to let go. go of to boost our happiness. We need to clear out our body shame.

With social media feeds filled with bikini body workouts and looks maxing tips, it can be very easy to not only beat yourself up about what you look like, but also to turn exercise into some form of body hatred. But what if you swept away all that self-loathing and embraced moving the only body you'll ever have in a healthier, happier way? What have you exercised without trying to transform what your body looked like? That is what we'll be exploring in today's throwback episode. It's a show we ran a few years ago in January, another time of year when we tend to fall into body hatred spirals, and it features an inspirational yoga teacher and author who's changed the way that I personally relate to exercise.

Jessamine Stanley spent most of her life identifying as what she called a quote, fat and awkward weirdo. Jessamine avoided exercise at all costs until she realized that it was her own body shaming mind that was holding her back. So in our final spring cleaning episode of the Happiness Lab, get ready to wash away your body shame and learn how you can refresh your relationship to movement. That's all coming up right after some quick words from the Happiness Lab sponsors. This is an iHeart Podcast.

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