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Episode 68: Your Body Is Not A Problem featuring Katherine Yasi
Katherine was in second grade when her mother called attention to her weight, a moment that impacted the rest of her life. From that day on her insecurities about her size and an endless cycle of shame about her body took over. She learned that a thin body was ideal and began to believe that the smaller you could get, the more valuable you would become. She chased down diet after diet and felt that she had to apologize for being ‘fat’, doing everything she could to get skinny. But when she did lose the most weight she ever had before she found she was the unhappiest that she had ever been in her life. It was this pivotal moment that she realized that body weight and her happiness did not depend on each other.
Her journey of self-acceptance began in 2020, after she was laid off and had time to reflect on her deep-rooted beliefs and find clarity on her path. She decided that she did not want to hate herself forever and needed to break away from the behavior that was now second nature. She became active in the Body Positivity movement, launched the podcast “It’s Okay to Love Yourself”, and is now a leadership development coach who encourages women of all sizes to love themselves.
Katherine is a podcaster, creator, and coach on a mission to bring more self-love into the world. At an early age Katherine realized the size of her body was bigger than her peers and not well-accepted in society. She spent almost two decades in on-again, off-again cycles of yo-yo dieting and battling with herself. In college she discovered the world of Body Positivity but it would be another 8 years before she found the true self-love and acceptance she needed to find peace within herself and strengthen her sense of self-worth. Katherines lives in the North End of Boston and enjoys cooking, travel, documentaries, and spin classes.
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