9: Don't Gaslight Yourself: You Are Not Imagining The Struggle

Episode 9: Don’t Gaslight Yourself: You’re Not Imagining the Struggle

Welcome to Talking with Emma — a podcast for smart, capable women who are tired of feeling like their body is the one part of life they still haven’t figured out.

I’m Emma Wright — body image coach, author, and someone who knows how hard it can be to have a body.

In this episode, we build on last week’s coaching tool — thoughts are not facts — by exploring something just as important:

You’re not making it up.

That pressure to be thinner? The way people in bigger bodies are treated differently at work, at the gym, in the doctor’s office, even by your friends?

That’s not all in your head.

You might have come to believe those messages, but you didn’t invent them.
They’re cultural beliefs. They’re everywhere.

And they’re baked into our healthcare, our fashion industry, our relationships, and our social media feeds.

This episode is about what it means to stop gaslighting yourself in the face of anti-fat bias and body shame.

You’ll learn:

• Why some thoughts feel true even when they’re not
• How to recognise when you’re internalising cultural bias
• A simple self-coaching tool to validate, interrupt, and reclaim your own thinking

Because the world may continue to suggest that bigger bodies are a problem — but that doesn’t mean you have to agree.

You can stop fixing yourself. You can start coming home to your body.

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