34. How to Identify, Confront, and Overcome the Shame Cycle | #minimizememaximizeME - a podcast by Dr. Morgan Nolte, PT, DPT, GCS

FAT SHAMING, it's a real thing. It's devastating to a person's mental, emotional, and physical health. Sarah's done a TON of work to overcome shame in her life, especially shame related to her size. If you’ve dealt with shame associated with your weight, you’re NOT alone.

Sarah’s going to walk you through a concrete exercise in this video you can do to help break the shame cycle.

If you’re on the other side of the coin, and have shamed a loved one hoping it would motivate them to get healthy, you are NOT alone. It can be so hard to know what to say and how to say it. Sarah gives some golden pieces of advice for how to compassionately motivate someone to get healthy. 

Here’s what we talk about in this episode: (time stamps are for the YouTube video version of this podcast)

3:28 - What Sarah’s doing for exercise.

5:38 - Following up on last week’s implementation intention to eat a high protein breakfast and log her food everyday.

9:48 - What Sarah is planning to do to be more consistent with logging her food.

16:04 - What exactly is shame and how does it start to creep into our lives?

19:52 - How the shame cycle caused Sarah to question if she was worthy of love...and even a good person!

26:16 - The 3 levels of fat shaming...which one are you?

29:40 - How to respond when your friends and family make comments about your weight or food choices.

33:04 - “Shame, or anger is our primary way to make someone do what we want them to do in our family, what’s a better way to motivate someone to get healthy besides shaming them?” - Morgan asks, Sarah answers!

Drop a comment and say hi! If you want to cheer Sarah on, do it!! If you’re struggling with a weight issue, let us know. For more personal stuff you can email us at support@zivli.com. Just indicate if the question is for Sarah or Morgan and we’ll get back to you!

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