How To Love Your Body

Welcome to How to Love Your Body, today we are talking about what to do when we are worried about a friend or family member’s health issues and how we can address it.   You can grab your worksheet here bit.ly/undietsupport - so you can work through how to support your loved one in the best way possible.    To start it off - get into your loved one’s shoes. If you had something going on with your health, what would you want from a loved one?    Someone to listen to you? Someone to support you in going to appointments? Someone to love you unconditionally?   So would I.   But what we tend to dish out instead is:   Advice. Unsolicited advice.   And we mean SO WELL but it’s really not what they need.   We have people reaching out sometimes and wondering “But I really love them shouldn’t I encourage them to eat healthier”?   Even if it’s not about weight - telling someone to “eat healthier” is rarely constructive.    If your loved one has health issues going on that you feel are exacerbated b