The Body Love Show

  I believe that all women can learn to love their bodies and free themselves from all the self-loathing that diet culture encourages!  But it does take some work. I hope this podcast and The Body Love Method™ give you lots of tools to love your body. But I know one size does not fit all so I want to share with you some of the biggest influencers in my Body Love Journey.  I call them my Body Love...

  It’s occurred to me that I say the words “diet culture” A LOT on this podcast but perhaps you don’t know what I mean when I say that…   Diet culture is the not so invisible forces that make us believe that being thin is beautiful and guarantees health.  It’s the messages from the media, advertising, news stories, celebrities, magazines, social media and influencers as well as our families that h...

  This week I was reminded of how far I’ve come with my Body Love mission in two ways.   Firstly I was reintroduced to a podcast interview I did late in 2017.  It was a few months before I wrote The Body Love Method and I had started to see results in my clients.   In the interview I spoke about how Body Love is essential for two reasons: It frees up a lot of brain space because when we let go of...

The Body Love Show - Changing the face of fitness with Bevie Collier   Lately my body has been sore.  Sore feet, sore hips, sore neck.  And when I finally got to the point of cancelling classes due to headaches and pain I knew I had to do something about it.   More than once I had been recommended the services of Bevie Collier, a Master Rehab Trainer, Barefoot Specialist, Personal Trainer and foun...

  This is our 50th episode.  When I started this show I hadn’t thought about milestones but now that I’ve been producing this show for over a year I am excited to celebrate 50 shows and more than 2000 downloads.   I wanted to celebrate by interviewing one of my long term clients, Nadia.   Back at the beginning of 2018, Nadia was introduced to me by her friend Anne.  She knew she needed support and...

  The Body Love Show - 3 things you need to know about the Bali Retreat   I recorded this week’s episode in Bali while on retreat with 8 other beautiful women.   It’s the first retreat I’ve ever hosted overseas and so far it is going so well and we are all having a fantastic time. In this episode I share 3 things I would love you to know about the retreat - not the workshops or what kind of yoga w...

The Body Love Show - Creating Harmony with Body Love Academy Student Melynnda Jelley   Melynnda Jelley works for a Not for Profit organisation in a Management position. She has 2 fantastic boys, a spoilt fur baby and an amazingly supportive husband that is always encouraging her to invest in her wellbeing  and grab time for herself.   Melynnda is a qualified Life Coach and creator of Harmonious Me...

    In this podcast episode I interview Adele Renee (You can check out her interview with me here )   Adele Renee is a wife and Mum to 3 young children and is launching her own business as a personal mentor and coach for Mum's.    Adele's journey into motherhood has been a struggle, going from a career and study driven perfectionist to an overwhelmed Mum that pretended to have it all together on t...

The Body Love Show - Emma Polette interviewed by Adele Renee   Recently I was interviewed by Adele Renee who is a personal mentor and coach for mums.  She is currently traveling around Australia with her family and along the way she is interviewing people by asking 10 questions.   I love this interview because Adele’s questions are so insightful and I like my answers :)   During the interview I fo...

This week I interviewed my Body Love Academy student, Peggy Quarmby.     Peggy is a full time Receptionist, an Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator of 12 years sharing stamping and creativity through classes and workshops.  She is also a Body Love Coach (in training). Peggy is passionate about helping women to live a lifestyle of self acceptance, compassion, inspiration and creativity.   She says...

This is a huge week in Body Love HQ history.  Firstly (and arguably most importantly) our resident dog, Barney, turns 8 this week!  To be honest, he is actually a rescue so I don’t know how old he really is but it was 5 years ago I adopted him and he was about 3 when I did so I say it’s his 8th birthday.   Now, you might be wondering what the hell my dog’s birthday has to do with Body Love.  Well....

  I’ve realised this week that my #1 life mission is to help hundreds and thousands of busy working women to find a sense of freedom in their hectic lives.   The best thing that has come out of ditching my 9 to 5 career and creating my business is the sense of freedom I have.     Just like last week, I write this while I have my dog snuggled at my feet.  I wasn’t allowed to bring dogs to my last c...

The Body Love Show - Allowing vs. Achieving   On the weekend I had the monthly call with The Body Love Academy students.  I feel like a proud mother hen because they have just finished learning the full Body Love Method and we are starting all the business building information - which I love.  Do you know I have a Marketing degree?   Anyhow, on this monthly call I asked everyone what was resonatin...

The Body Love Show - Body Love After Birthing Babes with Samara Romanis   Samara Romanis is my guest this week.  She is a body love advocate, coach and mentor - and one of the students in The Body Love Academy.   Her passion is to build women up, to believe in themselves, to know they are worthy of self love and they are 100% more than they think they are.   Samara is a mum to four boys. She has b...

  It might seem that I’ve always loved my body, or that learning to love my body was easier for me than it would be for you.  NOT TRUE!   My body image issues started from a very young age and affected me so much that by my mid 30’s I had no confidence and my brain was constantly filled with negative thoughts from my inner critic.  It affected my confidence at work, in my relationships, it affecte...

  When you think about body image issues, do you assume it refers just to teenagers?  Unfortunately about 80% of adult women in Australia also have body image issues. And they are holding themselves back from life because of it.   My mission is to help women everywhere love their bodies because I know it will help improve their confidence, health and bank balance!   So last week I created The Body...

  This week I am giving you a behind the scenes look at what the women in The Body Love Academy are learning this week.   It’s all about upleveling.   When we take the time to love our bodies and our lives we will come across 2 phenomena - self-sabotage and upleveling.   Self-sabotage is absolutely normal and not something to beat yourself up about.  But it’s good to get it under control.   Listen...

The Body Love Show - Creating more time for Body Love.   There are 2 ways to look at Body Love.     One is the way we feel about our bodies.  Ultimately I want you to be able to say you love your body.  Why? When we genuinely feel love and respect for our bodies it frees up a lot of mental and emotional bandwidth for more important things.   The second way is the way we treat our bodies.  Do you t...

In this week’s podcast episode I answer a question from a woman who reads my weekly email.   She asks: How do I get past the fact I am overweight but still beautiful? Why can't I see what other people see in me instead of just the outside? Firstly, I ask the question, “over what weight?” I also explain a few ways to recognise your own beauty and love yourself no matter what your size. I refer to t...

The Body Love Show - Learn to love your body in 7 weeks In the next few weeks I will be starting the online course for The Body Love Method.  Until now I have only offered it as a one on one coaching program which can be out of some people’s budgets (especially when we don’t value ourselves!) or through The Body Love Academy where I’m teaching other women how to be Body Love Coaches and create the...

Western Yoga has a problem.  Here are some of the examples:   We almost only see skinny, white, young, bendy, beautiful women It’s just focused on Asana or physical poses More & more it seems to have a go hard or go home orientation - handstands, crazy asana on the edge of the cliff, Tabata yoga, weight loss focus, etc.   This can make yoga seem impossible for people who have larger bodies, or who...

I have been teaching The Body Love Academy for 3 months and the most transformative part of the curriculum so far is FORGIVENESS.  In this episode I want to share with you WHAT forgiveness is, WHY it is so important and HOW you can start practicing it in your life.   According to a guest that Oprah had on her show in the early 90’s, forgiveness is letting go of the idea that the past can be any di...

Why you need Yoga Nidra   Yoga Nidra is a deeply relaxing practice that helps our bodies find homeostasis (or our natural state of equilibrium).   It is a guided process so all you need to do is to lie back and listen to the instructions.   Anyone can practice and gain the benefits.   I really wanted to give you this experience so find yourself 40 minutes to give yourself the gift of deep relaxati...

The Body Love Show - Why do I keep sabotaging myself?     This week an old client of mine had told me she was dealing with some old emotional issues that had come up and that her fibromyalgia symptoms had started to return. She’s been having a huge amount of success in her business lately.  So naturally, she asked me - why does all this crap come up when you hit good times? And it’s a common pheno...

In this week’s show, I talk about the link between boosting our self-esteem and how that affects the sustainability of our communities.   I share a fairly common story of a woman struggling with low self-esteem.   Then I share some shocking statistics on how low self-esteem fueled by body image issues affect women and girls.   And finally, I explain three ways you can boost your self-image today!...