Body Issues Making You Feel Inferior? Watch This To Change Your Relationship With Your Body In 2023!

When is the last time you did a check-up on your relational health? As in, your relationship WITH your health? How we treat our bodies (and health) has a direct impact on all of our other relationships, so in this series, we are focusing on how relational health brings relational wealth!

This episode discusses how her life journey of malnutrition, body shame, pregnancy, and postpartum body image issues turned Mackenzie Te'o into a fitness Instructor, and why she is so wildly passionate about helping young moms transform their bodies. WAIT! If you're a guy...please don't count this episode out. If you are close to any young moms or women currently pregnant, this episode is going to be one of the greatest tools on how you can best care for them!

0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Who this episode is for
1:35 - Mackenzie shares the 3 most important traits/characteristics she looks for in relationships (pointing back to episode 2, found here: https://youtu.be/Oa9-W9uU7I4)
2:53 - Mackenzie shares what her relationship with her relationship with her body USED to look like
5:16 - The shocking discovery her doctor shared with her
6:48 - Why her desire for fitness started
7:52 - How to navigate a fear of starting to eat differently
11:36 - The breaking point that made Mackenzie start to make fitness a priority in her life
13:48 - Why kickboxing became her focus
19:22 - How Mackenzie became passionate about creating a gym for moms who want their bodies back
22:44 - How your relationship with your body impacts every area of your life
26:35 - How to walk alongside a woman during pregnancy and her body image issues
29:25 - Mackenzie explains the mindset shift that happened when she decided to fight for her body after pregnancy
32:17 - A message to those who aren’t happy with their relationship with their body
34:21 - Pro tip on how to make a fast friend at a fitness class

We hope that you leave this episode ready to love your body again, or at least feel inspired to know that you're worth having a healthy relationship with your body, and you're worth being loved!

Special shout out to today's sponsor BAG + BARRE, the brand new fitness studio in the Pittsburgh area that dynamically blends kickboxing and barre to help new moms heal, love, rebuild, and transform their bodies, and achieve a new level of strength!

Learn more by heading to Instagram: @bagandbarre or www.bagandbarre.com

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