Have you ever found yourself thinking, “I should have outgrown this by now” when it comes to your body?
You're not alone — and you're definitely not failing.
In this episode of Talking with Emma, we dive into the painful belief that midlife body struggles mean you haven’t done enough personal work. We unpack the real reason it still feels hard — not because you’re broken, but because you’ve been living in a culture that keeps moving the goalposts on what your body should be.
I share a practical coaching tool to help you trace where your body thoughts come from, question the lies you've internalised, and take a powerful first step towards feeling more at ease in your skin.
We cover:
– Why it’s totally normal to still feel stuck with food and body thoughts in midlife
– How diet culture and ageism combine to make this even harder as we get older
– What the “promise of looking better” really sells us — and why it doesn’t deliver
– How to separate your actual desires (like confidence and love) from what culture tells you will get them
– A simple but powerful coaching exercise to help you locate, question, and gently push back on the loud thoughts in your head
If you’ve been blaming yourself, this episode is a permission slip to stop. The struggle is not your fault — but there is something you can do about it.
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📥 Want to go deeper? Download the Midlife Body Image Assessment — it’s the next step in understanding what’s really going on beneath your food and body struggles so you can stop obsessing about food and start feeling more easy in your body.
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