...So if you are somebody who can relate to this dynamic of guilt showing up pretty often for you in your thought narrative, I want to encourage you to get real curious about how it shows up for you, when it shows up for you, what the message is, and if it is something that helps you get back on track with the way you want to live, great. Listen to it, pay attention. If there's something with your morals or something that's dangerous and risky and really not how you want to live, then guilt can be really, really helpful.

But if you are somebody that this is a common dynamic for in terms of your thoughts and your thought patterns—just as you go about your daily life and as you shift from tending to one task and one person and one responsibility to the next, then let's really start to challenge that guilt narrative. Is it motivating you? Is it helpful? Is it encouraging?…

It is very natural as people to be critical, to focus on the negative in a way where we take everything else really out of context and we build up and blow up the negative thought as truth, as everything, as the end of the story and it's just not. And when we can start to recognize that it's just a critical thought, just a critical thought about my body or a part of my body, but it doesn't tell the whole story. And then we can ground ourselves in really asking the question, what do I like about my body? My thoughts are naturally going to go to what I don't like and what I don't feel confident about. But how can I widen the context towards also looking at what I do like and naming that and grounding myself in the truth that none of us as real people are meant to have this media image, body or appearance all the time.

So that when you have a narrative that's really causing problems because it's so rigid or fixed, it's so all or nothing that you can challenge it. I see this all the time with things like related to exercise or eating to soften that narrative of just because someone didn't exercise on one day doesn't mean they have to throw in the towel or that they're lazy.Actually it could have been what they needed, that they were sick or exhausted or had other priorities. And so we can make space for a softer narrative and that they can the next day, go for a walk again and keep living in the way that they value…