When Mariana's world was shaken by three unexpected words from her husband, her first instinct was to do what she'd always done, give more, try harder, hold on tighter.

What she didn't yet know was that her anxious attachment style had been quietly writing the rules of her relationships her whole life, tracing all the way back to her childhood.

It wasn't until she stopped trying to fix everything around her and turned inward that everything began to shift and along the way, she shared the secrets that helped her find peace and leave old patterns behind for good.

Mariana's story is one of radical honesty, hard-won self-awareness, and a transformation that can only come when you're finally brave enough to look at yourself clearly.

Attachment theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_in_adults?wprov=sfti1

Marianna's LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariannaguenette?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios

Lana Burton is an educator, a mom of two, wife and rugby referee & one of the most fiercely honest, unflinchingly real voices you'll hear this season.

She joins Cindy to talk about what happens when you want something with every fiber of your being, but your body betrays you, and no one can tell you why.

Her epic quest to become a mother was fraught with more than a dozen failed rounds of IVF, and then eventually into forced menopause. Lana details very honestly not just the physical but the emotional cost that no one warned her about.

There is a persistent grief she carried in moving through a world that never learned how to hold space for women trying to make a family at any cost.

Lana is unfiltered and unapologetic, but more than anything, she's generous. She's sharing her story because she wished someone had when she needed it most.

You'll feel her frustration and her relief, sometimes in the same breath.

This one is for you if you have ever felt invisible in your pain.

Lana's kids Book

Cindy's website: www.becoached.ca

Most of us have spent years trying to shrink ourselves, and rarely stopped to wonder whether our bodies actually wanted that.

Melanie Richards is the founder of Happy Tree yoga, and the force behind Fuck Skinny, a movement based in reclaiming joy, health, and identity from a culture obsessed with thinness. In this conversation, we talk about what disordered eating really looks like, how clean eating in the name of health and wellness can cause just as much harm, and the quiet devastation of living in a society that tells you that you are not good enough unless you meet its unrealistic beauty standards.

But mostly, we talk about what it means to finally learn to love yourself at any size.

This is a conversation for EveryBody. Literally.

Please note that this is a sensitive topic in which we discuss eating disorders and the devastating potential consequences. Listener discretion is advised.

Melanie's online series starting Monday, April 13: https://onlinecourses.happytreeyoga.com/spring-awakenings

Melanie's website: https://happytreeyoga.com/

Melanie's facebook https://www.facebook.com/melanie.richards.10

The Anti Diet https://christyharrison.com/book-anti-diet-intuitive-eating-christy-harrison

Health at every size: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_at_Every_Size

Cindy's website: www.becoached.ca