Midlife Woman: Loving Our Bodies, Loving Ourselves with Michelle Viña Baltsas

Are you loving on your midlife self? Do you view your body through your own eyes, or through the tainted lens of others?

Life is meant to be lived, savored, and loved. My next guest on the show, Michelle Viña Baltsas, understands this. Michelle is a Certified Health Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and Body Image Coach, and she wants you, as midlife women, to know that even though you’re going through significant changes on the inside and often the outside, your self-worth should be unconditional. She wants women to love the bodies they’re in now.

Michelle brings a mind-body holistic approach to her coaching work and specializes in working with women who struggle with yo-yo dieting and body dissatisfaction. She focuses on three key areas of diet recovery which include self-compassion, gratitude, and acceptance.

Michelle’s favorite quote is:

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” ~Steve Maraboli

“This is a process, and it’s practice. It is not magic wand stuff. There is no magic pill for any of this stuff.” ~Michelle Viña Baltsas

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“The body is supposed to change throughout our lives. We’re not supposed to be the same weight, the same size, the same shape.” ~Michelle Viña Baltsas

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On The Show . . .

On this episode, Michelle and I chat about:

Cultivating body compassion as women journey through menopause
Understanding what is happening in our bodies during this phase
Understanding that our bodies are designed to change
Adapting and embracing the changes our bodies experience with more ease
Learning to uncouple self-worth from our body weight, size and shape
and more…

“We all have a story with everything in our lives, but really around food.” ~Michelle Viña Baltsas

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“I’m going to enjoy my body, I’m going to appreciate my body for all that it does for me and all that it can do for me, and I’m going to honor it to the best of my ability.” ~Michelle Viña Baltsas

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Where to Find Michelle Viña Baltsas:
Website: Michelle Vina Baltsas | Instagram: Michelle Vina Baltsas | Facebook: No Diet Sisterhood

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“My Street” by Lee Rosevere Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
“Son of a Rocket” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

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