How to finally forgive and accept yourself with Natalie Lee

**CONTENT WARNING and TRIGGER WARNING** This episode contains swearing and TW/sexual abuse. Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. This week’s guest is Natalie Lee. You might know her as Style Me Sunday. Natalie started her career as a midwife before starting her blog in July 2012. In the past decade, she has grown her platform from a blog to a brand and now reaches women across a variety of platforms and in so many different ways. Her book Feeling myself: how I shed my shame to find sexual freedom is out in June. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy, and it is incredible. I think this book is going to help so many women. You are going to learn about: What is sexual shame and how it manifests Why using the correct terms for sex anatomy is vital How Natalie healed her sexual trauma and what that has meant for her girls What her dream is for the next generation This is really an emotional conversation and also an incredibly important one. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. We are grateful to Gymondo for sponsoring this week’s episode Gymondo is an online fitness and well-being platform with 100s of 20 to 30-minute workouts and training programmes ranging from HIIT and yoga to dance and meditation, plus over 1000 healthy recipes. Aside from the freedom and flexibility Gymondo offers, exercising at home is fun, saves you money, fits perfectly into your lifestyle and helps you stick to your fitness goals. Start a 14-day FREE trial and save 50% on your annual membership. You may access the offer just by clicking on this link or by going to gymondo.com and adding the code MOTHERKIND. About Natalie Lee Natalie Lee began her career as a midwife before starting her blog, Style Me Sunday, in July 2012. Over nearly a decade, she has grown her platform from a blog to a brand, and now reaches women across various different mediums. Throughout this time, she has run events, co-hosted a podcast (The Everything Project), been a panellist more times than she can count, taken part in a television project about women's quests for better orgasms where she had an orgasm on TV, and worked with a variety of household-name brands. @stylemesunday Natalie’s blog Style Me Sunday Mother kind programme and resources FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day.