18. How Do I Appreciate the Body I Have? With Simone De La Rue

Good Things from Lemonada · Jan 19, 2022 · 36m

Celebrity fitness trainer Simone De La Rue wants to change how we think about and relate to our bodies. She can trace her passion for health, women’s empowerment, and self-care to a pivotal moment in her life – an audition for the Australian Ballet Company where she felt judged solely on her physical appearance. Through her dance-based fitness program Body By Simone, she fights back against unrealistic physical expectations exacerbated by airbrushed and filtered social media photos. This episode's practice is about self-love and not subjecting yourself to anyone else’s notion of the ideal…