Love your BODY with Confidence, Ep.107

Feel better in your body right now! Life is busy and it can be difficult to find the time and energy to adequately nurture and care for our bodies. This episode is packed with tips, strategies, and ideas to help you start LOVING your BODY with more CONFIDENCE today!!

Love Your BODY With Confidence. I am so excited to bring you this important episode about how to nurture, love, and trust your body with confidence so that you do better, feel better in life, work, and in relationships.

You are in a relationship with your body.  Strong relationships are built on reciprocity, trust, and respect. Take care of your body and your body will take care of you. Listen now to learn more about how to shift FROM a cycle of fatigue and disappointment TO gratitude and confidence with your body!

#107 | Season 5, Ep. 8

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Episode 107 “Love Your BODY with Confidence” Notes - Links and References:

02:00 - Continuing the series for Season 5: “Love With Confidence” 

Our Mission: Leading with Love.  We are committed to balancing our energy - body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit - and aligning our energy with our values, mission, and vision. We empower you to do the same!

Link to Episode 101. LOVE with Confidence: https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-101 

In that episode, I discuss major contributors to our mission of Leading With Love and our psychological, proactive approach to promoting holistic health and wellness: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the Spiritual Energy/Chakra System, SAMHSA’s Wellness Dimensions, the Five Factor Personality Model on our formula of helping you build Confidence in your Life, Work, Love and Relationships.

08:00 - Outline for today’s episode, LOVE Your Body With Confidence - What that means, why it’s important, with tips and action steps that you can start doing TODAY to love your body with confidence.

We are focusing on how to love the physical aspect of our body with confidence in this episode - internal systems in the body as well as our senses and sensations.  We will focus on the aspect of body image and confidence in a future episode.

11:00 - Our bodies are amazing systems that carry and sustain us.

12:15 - **TIP/STRATEGY** Body Energy Inventory: Take a breath, pause, tune in with your body, and notice what is happening in your body in the present moment.

14:15 - **TIP/STRATEGY** Embrace the present moment and give gratitude to your body.

15:00 - **TIP/STRATEGY** Examine and Explore your relationship with your body using the Fun LOVE! Formula - https://www.drlyz.com/fun-love 

17:00 - Call into your mind a person with whom you are in relationship to help you understand and characterize your relationship with your body.  Imagine your body as your partner. Check in with your reactions - thoughts, emotions, sensations, beliefs, ideas - be curious and open.

19:00 - How do you speak to your body? How do you show up for your body? Do you treat your body well? What do you expect from your body? 

Five actions that you can do TODAY to increase your confidence and love for your body:

1. Feeding,
2. Moving,
3. Resting,
4. Exciting, and
5. Maintaining our Bodies well. 

We Invite you to align your actions and evaluate them as good/bad, positive/negative by determining if they are in line with YOUR Values, Mission, and Vision.

Feed your body good.

Ideas: food and other things as well - consider what you consume on social media, shows, movies, music, etc.; vitamins, WATER!!!, moonlight, sunlight, nature, and fresh air, medicine; talk nicely to your body - give your body compliments and expressions of gratitude.

Take Inventory: Are your behaviors in line with YOUR Values, Mission, and Vision?

Helpful episodes from Empowered By Design: 

Improve Gut Health: Tips for Healing + Connection with Dr. Carolina Arreola, Ep. 86 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-86

Move your body good.

Ideas: working out, dancing, sex, walking - find something to do that requires exertion of energy, yoga, stretching, travel and vacation. Have fun when you move your body!!

Take Inventory: Are your behaviors in line with YOUR Values, Mission, and Vision?

Helpful episodes from Empowered By Design: 

Online Yoga Resource: Katie Arnold, Yoga Instructor.  Get to know Katie in our chat on Podcast #52: “The Magical Power of Connection With Katie Arnold” - https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-magical-power-of-connection-with-katie-arnold-ep52 

Kristin Wise, Health and Fitness Coach was featured on Episode #24 - “Starting Somewhere - Basic Steps to Improve your Physical Health with Kristin Wise” https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-basic-steps-to-improve-your-physical-health-kristin-wise-ep24 

Rest your body good.

Listen to your body.  It shares messages with you and tells you when it needs to slow down and to rest in the spirit of BALANCE!,

Ideas: Meditate daily, improve sleep hygiene and healthy sleep habits, sit down, take naps!, shavasana in yoga, travel and leisure, get a massage, acupuncture, mani/pedi.

Take Inventory: Are your behaviors in line with YOUR Values, Mission, and Vision?

Excite your body good.

Our bodies want to feel good, they want to feel pleasure.  Find the activities that bring you excitement and fiery passion - get charged up! 

Ideas: play an instrument, sing, dance, have sex, touch your body, hug, love, snuggle, pleasure yourself, go shopping, get dressed up - wear something that makes you feel AMAZING!, put on makeup, get your hair done.

If you don’t know what excites your body, spend time exploring!

Take Inventory: Are your behaviors in line with YOUR Values, Mission, and Vision?

Maintain your body good.

Treat your body well and maintain a regular, consistent schedule of activities that maintain the health and wellness of your body. Set reminders on your device to keep you on track.

Ideas: keep up with your personal hygiene - brush and floss your teeth; get your physicals, mammograms, pap smears, medical check ups.

Take Inventory: Are your behaviors in line with YOUR Values, Mission, and Vision?

You are in a relationship with your body.  Strong relationships are built on reciprocity, trust, and respect. Build a foundation of trust with your body and your body will trust you back. Take care of your body and your body will take care of you. Show up for your body and your body will show up for you.

44:30 - Gratitude for your body. Give gratitude for something that you see. Give gratitude to your body for something you hear and listen to. Taste something you love.  Smell something you love and give your body gratitude. Touch something you love - give yourself a hug! And give thanks to your body - for loving you, for showing up for you, for all that your body does for you. 

Check out my guided meditation on the insight timer app - the Golden Light Body Scan - give your body some TLC: https://insighttimer.com/dr.lyz/guided-meditations/golden-light-body-scan 

A previous podcast episode that highlights the importance of loving your body: Tuning in to your body’s language - Nurture the Body, Ep. 10 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-tuning-into-your-body-language-nurture-the-body-ep10

Confidence happens, trust is built when we show up consistently and make the intentional effort to maintain healthy connection.

Helpful episodes from Empowered By Design to help you LOVE your BODY with CONFIDENCE!

• Styling your Image Vision with Samantha Arnold, Ep. 14 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-styling-your-image-vision-samantha-arnold
• Trash the Scale. Use Your List with Dr. Maggie Landes, Ep. 32 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-trash-the-scale-maggie-landesmd-ep32
• Enhancing and Deepening the Intimacy in Relationships featuring Aliya Kenyatta, Ep. 41 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-enhancing-intimacy-feat-Aliya-Kenyatta-ep41 
• Empowering Sexual Health At Every Age with Dr. Lindsey Brooks, Ep. 65 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-65 
• Sexual Health, Hormone Balance, and Surviving Breast Cancer: Feeling Good In Your Skin with Juni Bucher, Ep. 74 https://www.drlyz.com/blog/podcast-74  

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