Why So Many Women Feel Disconnected From Their Bodies with Emma-Louise Boynton
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Why do many women feel disconnected from their bodies?
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Enjoy. Hey, Dr. Mindy here and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in. Let's dive in. I heard a version of this sentence almost every day in my practice. A woman would say to me, I don't actually feel comfortable in my own skin. I feel disconnected from this body that I'm trying to heal. I don't even know how to receive touch. And I definitely don't know how to access pleasure. It's as if somewhere along a woman's journey, enjoying our bodies became optional. Here's what I've come to believe after years of asking women about their relationship to their bodies.
The world we live in has taught us to fear our bodies. Fear the number on the scale. Fear the food on our plate. Fear what happens if we stop controlling and start surrendering. And what's most profound about this is that it's in the letting go that so many of us invite back into our lives pleasure. Pleasure isn't just about a burst of oxytocin that makes you feel all warm and yummy inside. It is actually a direct line to calming fear. Seriously, how many of us are controlled by fear? And we didn't get the memo that the new research is actually suggesting that the opposite of fear isn't calm, it's pleasure. Which means a woman who had never learned how to feel good in her own body isn't just missing out on something enjoyable.
She may be missing out on one of her most powerful tools for overcoming fear. I think about food a lot in this context because I watch so many women turn to food as their only accessible source of pleasure. And it makes sense. It's dopamine. It's immediate. It's available at two in the morning when nothing else is. But over time, it doesn't open anything up. It actually closes things down. It becomes a way to numb rather than to feel. And the more a woman leans on it, the further she drifts from pleasure. Pleasure anywhere in her life, in the bedroom, in her work, in her own skin. This is why I have brought you Emma Louise Boynton. Emma Louise has spent 17 years living with an eating disorder, cycling through anorexia and bulimia, completely at war with her own body.
She tried nearly every kind of therapy there was. And what finally ended it after 17 years wasn't another diet protocol or another round of talk therapy. It was learning to reconnect with her own pleasure and her own sexuality. That healing became the foundation for her new book called Pleasure and for the work she now does helping women rebuild their relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with intimacy.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why do many women feel disconnected from their bodies?
0:00–12:31
2
How does Emma‑Louise define pleasure as the opposite of fear?
12:31–24:44
3
What simple, non‑sexual practices can help women reconnect with their bodies?
24:44–37:45
4
Why is food often used as a substitute for bodily pleasure?
37:45–1:02:18
5
How can a daily pleasure journal jump‑start body awareness?
1:02:18–1:23:07
Speakers
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