39 min
Am I Bigger Than Her? A Conversation with Body Peace Coach, Nina Manolson Find Your Strong Podcast
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- Mental Health
Nina Manolson is a body peace coach, who help her clients end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their bodies, as they are now.*
From the first second I started chatting with Nina, I was touched by her empathy and warmth. She was 100% present with me and was deeply invested in this conversation.
I first came across Nina many years ago on the Fit and Fearless podcast on BBC Radio1 with Tally Rye, Victoria Niamh Spence, and Zanna Van Dijk.
She read a poem on air called 'I feel fat' and she spoke about her therapist asking her,
"but if you didn't feel fat, what would you be feeling?"
Her words resonated deeply with me and since I started the podcast in January, I've been so excited to have her on as a guest.
We talk about the following topics:
- How do we be 'body current' and accept and find peace with the bodies we are in now?
- Embodiment. How body image healing can only start to happen from the inside out.
- How can we accept our bodies when the goalposts change through peri to post menopause?
- How do we start feeling more like ourselves when our bodies start to change.
- How getting curious about the body thoughts that arise can help us lead with self-compassion.
- How to NOT compare our bodies to those of others
Nina ends by reading a beautiful poem she wrote on the 'compare & despair' that we so often feel.
Am I Bigger Than Her?
Am I bigger than her?
I ask my husband
As a woman passes on the street
Am I bigger than her?
I ask myself, as I walk into the room
Measuring up all the women
Am I bigger than her?
I look at a picture of younger me
A “memory” on Facebook from years ago
Am I bigger than her?
I am asking:
Am I less attractive?
less powerful?
less likable?
less worthy than her?
Comparing myself to her size
And her size
And her size
If I’m bigger than her, then I’m less than her
If I’m smaller than her, then I’m more than her
And her size and her size and her size
My self worth going up and down with each comparison
Scoring points in a game against myself
There’s always someone bigger
And always someone smaller
There’s no winning this game
It’s just reducing women to their size
Aren’t we bigger than that?
~Nina Manolson
You can find Nina on Instagram or contact her through her website where all of Nina's Body Peace offerings are available.
For free resources, click here to access Nina's Body Peace Journal or here to access her free virtual masterclass and body poems.
*Nina’s Body-Peace work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster, and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates a positive long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching and poetry positively change the conversation that women are having with their body. She also writes Body-Poems as a way to encourage a shift in the way we talk to, and about our body.
If you are feeling stuck in your movement routine, are sick of the calorie counting and would like to work on your relationship with food and movement, please get in touch.
And if you enjoyed this episode, please share and follow the 'Find Your Strong podcast' and if you have time, write me a short review. It would honestly mean the world to me. Love to you all, Christine x
Nina Manolson is a body peace coach, who help her clients end the war with food and body and finally feel truly at home in their bodies, as they are now.*
From the first second I started chatting with Nina, I was touched by her empathy and warmth. She was 100% present with me and was deeply invested in this conversation.
I first came across Nina many years ago on the Fit and Fearless podcast on BBC Radio1 with Tally Rye, Victoria Niamh Spence, and Zanna Van Dijk.
She read a poem on air called 'I feel fat' and she spoke about her therapist asking her,
"but if you didn't feel fat, what would you be feeling?"
Her words resonated deeply with me and since I started the podcast in January, I've been so excited to have her on as a guest.
We talk about the following topics:
- How do we be 'body current' and accept and find peace with the bodies we are in now?
- Embodiment. How body image healing can only start to happen from the inside out.
- How can we accept our bodies when the goalposts change through peri to post menopause?
- How do we start feeling more like ourselves when our bodies start to change.
- How getting curious about the body thoughts that arise can help us lead with self-compassion.
- How to NOT compare our bodies to those of others
Nina ends by reading a beautiful poem she wrote on the 'compare & despair' that we so often feel.
Am I Bigger Than Her?
Am I bigger than her?
I ask my husband
As a woman passes on the street
Am I bigger than her?
I ask myself, as I walk into the room
Measuring up all the women
Am I bigger than her?
I look at a picture of younger me
A “memory” on Facebook from years ago
Am I bigger than her?
I am asking:
Am I less attractive?
less powerful?
less likable?
less worthy than her?
Comparing myself to her size
And her size
And her size
If I’m bigger than her, then I’m less than her
If I’m smaller than her, then I’m more than her
And her size and her size and her size
My self worth going up and down with each comparison
Scoring points in a game against myself
There’s always someone bigger
And always someone smaller
There’s no winning this game
It’s just reducing women to their size
Aren’t we bigger than that?
~Nina Manolson
You can find Nina on Instagram or contact her through her website where all of Nina's Body Peace offerings are available.
For free resources, click here to access Nina's Body Peace Journal or here to access her free virtual masterclass and body poems.
*Nina’s Body-Peace work is all in service of helping people get off the diet roller-coaster, and into a compassionate and powerful way of eating & living which creates a positive long-lasting change in and with their bodies. Her courses, coaching and poetry positively change the conversation that women are having with their body. She also writes Body-Poems as a way to encourage a shift in the way we talk to, and about our body.
If you are feeling stuck in your movement routine, are sick of the calorie counting and would like to work on your relationship with food and movement, please get in touch.
And if you enjoyed this episode, please share and follow the 'Find Your Strong podcast' and if you have time, write me a short review. It would honestly mean the world to me. Love to you all, Christine x
39 min