Episode 24
Loving Yourself & Your Body at any Shape or Size, with Crystal Angwin
Crystal Angwin has been a Self Love Embodiment Coach for 9 years. After a body building show where she lost 45kgs and realised that it didn't change how she felt about herself and her body she embarked on the self love journey finding love and freedom to be her unapologetic self at the heaviest she has ever been. She's now dedicated to sharing the tools that changed her life and help other women love themselves and their bodies no matter what!
IN THIS EPISODE, CRYSTAL SHARES:
Her journey entering a body building competition and still hating her body when she was in her ‘best shape’.
Asking the question of ‘if hating myself got me here, what would loving myself do?’.
Learning to love her body at any shape or size.
Why it’s not actually about the weight, but how you feel.
Her relationship with food and binge eating.
Spiralling into binge eating and being the biggest she’d ever been.
Getting started with self love.
Realising that she is the creator and responsible for her life.
Learning to speak to herself as her best friend.
Celebrating her body and looking in the mirror and loving what she sees.
Removing the conditions for how she felt she had to look.
Wearing a bikini in public at her biggest size.
Changing the external doesn’t change the internal.
Realising that weight loss isn’t hard and detaching from it.
Losing 50kg without trying. No dieting, workout plans, etc.
Being devoted to her body and treating it like a temple.
How the moment she found freedom was the moment everything changed.
Developing food freedom and listening to her body.
The times she overate to the point it was painful.
Tuning into her emotions rather than turning to emotional eating.
Loving herself in her mess and allowing herself to be seen in her mess.
Realising that certain behaviours are simply a protection strategy.
The importance of compassion, rather than shame, guilt and judgement.
The link between weight and protection/safety.
Creating internal strength and confidence.
Working through past sexual trauma.
The part that various coaching modalities played in her journey.
Her favourite self love practices
The role mirror work played in her journey.
Freedom in dance, singing and expression.
Becoming more present with yourself.
Where to start on your self love journey.
The gift of vulnerability.
Knowing that you will get through whatever you’re going through.
And so much more!
Learn more about Crystal and follow her journey via her instagram @crystal.angwin.
RADIANCE
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