According to research in the US, 91% of women admit to not liking their bodies.

For sure some of the other 9% weren’t straight about how they felt, so the number may be even higher. This is not in any way surprising when only 5% of women naturally have the kind of body the media portrays as ideal. Let’s face it, even if you are in that magical 5% when you’re in your early 20s, the chances of still being stick thin, cellulite free with zero signs of aging 20 or 30 years later are zero.

It is a game no woman can win. 

Yet diet culture and the media convince you to keep trying, which keeps you stuck, feeling inadequate and unhappy. 

If you don’t like your body, it will affect your self-worth, feed your inner critic, and play havoc with all the key areas of your life:

• Your wellbeing can suffer if you try extreme diets, skip meals or resort to extreme measures such as plastic surgery. 
• Your confidence will be shaky, and this will impact your career, finances, relationships, parenting, creativity and more. 
• Your success will be negatively affected by the amount of time, money and energy you spend on everything surrounding not liking your body and trying to fix it. Imagine if all of those resources were put towards your future success and happiness instead?

Look, I get it. I went to extreme measures to escape how I felt about myself and my body in my late teens and early 20s, and came close to loosing my life to addictions. After getting sober in 2002, I then went through the physical changes of having two children (and two c-sections, goodbye any hope of a flat tummy ever again!), being permanently injured in a car crash in 2016 that left me with constant pain and movement restrictions, and then went through 9 hours of surgery for breast cancer in 2018. I truly know what it’s like to have a body that never quite looks or performs that way you’d like it to, and to have that seep horribly into other areas of life and hold you back. I used to punish myself with detox diets, fasts, strict diet rules and weighed myself every single morning to see what I was ‘allowed’ to eat and wear that day…

The wonderful news  is that it really doesn’t have to be like that. You can shift how you feel about your body. You can create a trusting, nurturing and appreciative relationship with your body, and brilliantly, this is a massive positive for your confidence, wellbeing and success. 

I love my body more than ever now in my mid 40s, larger than ever, scars, wrinkles, limits and all. Over the past 17 years, I’ve been helping thousands of other women change the way they think, act and feel in their relationship with themselves and their bodies massively for the better. I’ve run a number of deeply impactful and transformative retreats specifically on body love, and it’s a topic that comes up for all of coaching my clients too. 

Join me for this deep dive session on 27th to uncover:

• Why body confidence is an unhelpful myth.
• How to forgive yourself for how you’ve felt about yourself in the past so that you can start afresh.
• Powerful, practical and simple action steps to take that will shift you from body shame into neutrality, and then to a place of love for your body. 

The session will not be recorded to preserve maximum confidentiality and to create a closed, secure and nurturing setting for you to heal. 

Your investment for the two hour session is £24.99. 

Harriet x x 

Hunted down to speak for audiences including Microsoft, Barclays and Invesco, Harriet has empowered thousands of people over the last 17 years to believe in themselves and their potential.

She has been through multiple transformations herself and knows what it takes to make deep rooted changes that stick, and to get through tough times and emerge and wiser. Harriet is 18 years in recovery from addictions, left an unhappy marriage and went on to thrive, shifted from a 10-year banking career into motherhood and entrepreneurship, lives with a permanent pain condition after being driven into on the motorway, and is a breast cancer survivor.

Harriet's mission is to make sure people know their true value. She empowers clients and audiences to leave behind self-doubt, sabotaging patterns and overwhelm in favour of new ways of thinking, feeling and acting that create confidence, wellbeing and success. Vanessa Vallely OBE, MD of WeAreThe City describes Harriet as ‘a real superwoman who empowers others wherever she goes.’