Healing Body Shame: A Guide to Reconnecting with Your Core and Gut Feelings

This week on Raising Wild Hearts, I'm sitting down with the incredible Loni Markman for a conversation that gets to the absolute core of who we are. Loni, with her nearly two decades of experience, is a true powerhouse.

She helps women reconnect with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and create a deep mind-belly connection. This conversation is all about dismantling the shame and "shoulds" we've been conditioned to believe, and it's a powerful journey back home to ourselves.

Loni and I dive into why so many of us grew up hating our bellies and how we can break that generational conditioning for our daughters.

We talk about the wisdom that lives within our bodies—our gut feelings—and how to listen to the language our body speaks: sensation.

We explore the profound difference between "surface-level confidence" and true "body-led confidence," and how to cultivate the latter through "micro-moments" and sacred rest.

This episode is a beautiful invitation to honor our bodies, feel our feelings, and celebrate the messy, gorgeous process of becoming our most sovereign selves.

This is a conversation you'll want to listen to twice.😉

In this episode, Loni Markman and Ryann Watkin talk about:

• Dismantling body shame at the core: Loni shares how we've been conditioned to believe our bellies should be a certain way and how we can dismantle that for ourselves and our children.

• The power of neutrality over perfection: We discuss leaning into a place of "neutrality" instead of striving for the "good" or "bad" of life, especially when it comes to our bodies.

• The difference between surface-level and body-led confidence: We explore the difference between "fake it till you make it" confidence and a deep, sovereign confidence that comes from listening to your body's truth.

• Micro-moments and sacred rest: Loni explains how to create safety in the body through small, intentional moments of pause and why sacred rest is a non-negotiable for building self-trust.

• Feeling your feelings to heal: We dive into the concept of "feeling it to heal it" and how avoiding emotions through numbing behaviors like emotional eating prevents us from transmuting them.