If you’re exhausted from worrying about what other people think of you or find yourself held back because you’re scared of what other people might think – this is the episode for you!

Kristina Bruce is a Certified Integrative Life Coach and Body Trust® Provider. She specializes in helping people break free from dieting and negative body image. Calling upon her education in health studies, sociology, yoga, meditation, and self-inquiry methodologies, Kristina works one-on-one to help people develop a positive relationship with themselves so they can live empowering and fulfilled lives, in the bodies that they have. In this episode Kristina helps us understand why we care about what other people think and what to do about it.

In this vital, moving episode on Bod Almighty we cover:

- Why we care about what other people think of us (around 1:00)

- What looking for other people’s approval has to do with survival (around 2:30)

- How we can pick up approval / disapproval “by osmosis” (around 4:30)

- How empathy and sensitivity might impact your comprehension of social cues (around 6:00)

- Questioning where your thoughts and self judgments have come from (around 7:45)

- How thoughts become habitual (around 10.00)

- Hot tip: A question for “digging deeper” into judgments you worry others might have about you (around 11.00)

- If other people are thinking something about you – why does it matter? (around 12:30)

- How to create separation between ourselves and our thoughts and feelings (around 13:30)

- Pulling away the layers of conditioning and belief (around 15:30)

- Hot tip: An incredible visualization exercise for beliefs and judgments you have about your body (around 16:00)

- What this exercise brought up for Michelle (around 17:00)

- What this exercise brought up for Hannah (around 18:00)

- How to put into perspective other people’s judgments (around 19:30)

- If you feel triggered by someone else’s judgment what could actually be going on for you (around 20:30)

- Having compassion for the person judging you (around 21:00)

- Empowering yourself rather than focusing on others (around 25:00)

- Do you feel like you are unworthy? (around 25:30)

- Hot tip: An empowering exercise to figure out which of our thoughts and beliefs are unhelpful or untrue (around 26:00)

- How to work with the thought “I am ugly” (around 27:45)

- The benefits to aging (around 30:30)

Resources:

Check out the free “Body Acceptance Jumpstart Guide”, available on Kristina’s website: www.kristinabruce.com

Instagram: @Kristinabrucecoach

Facebook: Kristina Bruce coach