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You have spent decades trying to change your body, believing that once you did, you'd finally feel better about yourself and somehow, life would feel happier too.

Maybe you've dieted for decades. You've picked apart certain parts of your body. You've compared yourself to other women. And somewhere along the way, you started believing that changing your body would finally change everything.

Anne Poirier is back on the Emotional Eats Podcast after our first powerful conversation in Episode 151. I thought the first was deep, but this time we're going deeper.

What does it actually mean to heal your relationship with your body?

Because healing doesn't necessarily mean looking in the mirror every morning and loving everything you see. It may mean learning to trust your body again, quieting the voice that constantly criticizes it, and taking care of yourself without punishment, perfectionism, or another diet.

Anne and I also talk about something I know can feel complicated. What if you want to stop dieting, but you still want your body to change? Can those two things exist at the same time?

In this conversation, we talk about:

• What healing your relationship with your body actually looks like in everyday life
• How decades of dieting can disconnect you from your body and its signals
• Why the inner critic can be so hard to quiet
• Wanting your body to change without going back to dieting and punishment
• How social media, GLP-1s, AI, and our changing culture are affecting body image
• Moving your body from a place of joy instead of trying to earn food or change your size

If you've spent years telling yourself, "I'll feel better when I lose the weight," this conversation may give you a very different way to think about your body, your health, and what it means to finally stop waiting to live your life.

Make sure you go back and listen to Anne's first interview. Episode 151

About Anne Poirier

Anne Poirier is a nationally recognized body image expert, certified intuitive eating counselor, and author of The Body Joyful: My Journey from Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance. And, out Fall of 2026 the 2nd Edition of The Body Joyful; Beyond Self acceptance- The path to living a life of peace, presence and purpose. With a degree in Exercise Science and over 30 years in health and wellness, Anne has turned her own recovery from eating disorders and body shame into a mission to help others find freedom and peace with food, movement, and themselves.

Anne has become a leading voice in the body neutrality movement, helping people find peace with food, movement, and themselves. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Women's Health, Shape, and NPR.

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