Kickstart Your Body Image: Building Confidence and Self-Love for Lasting Change

By Tessie Tracy

In Kickstart Your Body Image, an audio course from Scribd Coach, intuitive eating coach Tessie Tracy explores the topic of negative body image. Unrealistic standards and expectations we pick up from society and in our upbringing can trigger lifelong insecurities about our looks; in Kickstart Your Body Image, Tracy argues that these expectations and the mindsets they foster are the “problem” — not us, or our bodies — and offers practical advice for taking back your power and developing a healthier body image.

In the course, intended as a jumping-off point for deeper body image work, Tracy discusses her three-step process for confronting negative body image: Noticing negative body image thoughts, interrupting them, and building a more positive image. She also shares exercises along the way so you can begin putting what you’ve learned into practice immediately.

Kickstart Your Body Image is crucial reading for fans of fitness and personal growth — insightful, empathetic, boldly original, and rooted in the principles of intuitive eating, Tracy’s is a much-needed voice in the world of diet and nutrition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Apr 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9781094459639

Tessie Tracy

Tessie Tracy is a trainer and coach, specializing in helping people finally create a peaceful relationship with food and body so they can become the next best version of themselves through her private and group coaching programs. To learn more about Tracy and her work, visit TessieTracy.com, or follow her on Instagram @tessietracy.

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Kickstart Your Body Image

KICKSTART YOUR BODY IMAGE

Building Confidence and Self-Love for Lasting Change

TESSIE TRACY

Scribd Coach

Contents

About Scribd Coach

Copyright

Introduction

Notice

Interrupt

Build the Positive

Conclusion

About the Author

About Scribd Coach

This ebook is brought to you by Scribd Coach, a new imprint from Scribd dedicated to short-form, inclusive, and insightful personal and professional growth courses written by recognized experts.

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Copyright

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ISBN: 9781094459639

First e-book edition: March 2023

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Introduction

Hello everyone, and welcome to Kickstart Your Body Image: Building Confidence and Self-Love for Lasting Change, a course from Scribd. I’m Tessie Tracy. Thanks for joining me.

One way or another, we all struggle with some level of negative body image. Each of our stories might be different, but in today’s world, there’s no shortage of unrealistic standards, assumptions and expectations we pick up from society and in our upbringing that trigger lifelong insecurities about our looks.

We’re bombarded with social media and advertising that tell us, even on a subconscious level that we don’t always realize, that we’re only considered pretty or successful or that we’ll only find love if we look a certain way. Unfortunately, it’s reinforced even more when it comes from our parents or our teachers — authority figures who we trust. They’re human, too, and they’ve internalized the same standards of beauty and success that are pushed on all of us.

These are complicated issues that take up a lot of our time and emotional energy. Just by taking it all in on a daily basis, we very easily develop a complex of negative body image. For example, when I was a kid, I hated my frizzy hair because no one else around me had it and because kids would poke fun at me for it. Even now, as an adult, I still have to make a conscious effort to manage the insecurity I’ve developed in response to those experiences. Whatever it might be for you, if we fit outside of that image that’s pushed on us in even just the smallest way, it can really start to spark an insecurity or negativity that builds throughout our lives.

We’re so busy trying to meet these standards that we rarely take a moment to step back and realize that it’s these very expectations and the mindsets that they’ve fostered in us are the problem — not us, not our bodies.

In this course, I’ll be sharing three steps to take back your power and develop a healthier body image: Noticing negative body image thoughts, interrupting them, and building a more positive body image. These steps can be used on