291. How to Lose Weight AND Love Yourself (because you can do both!) with Sas Petherick [Body Stories Series #1]

2025-03-20

Today’s episode is with my long-time friend and colleague Sas Petherick. It’s about those times when you want to lose weight… but you also want to love your body.This is also the beginning of our new Body Series: ongoing conversations about the nuances of being in relationship with our bodies. And today I'm announcing the first live round of my Your Emotional Eating Blueprint: Why Am I Eating This Now? course, which you can hear more about by getting on my email list!We discuss:Sas’ relationship with her body + illness...

Today’s episode is with my long-time friend and colleague Sas Petherick. It’s about those times when you want to lose weight… but you also want to love your body.

This is also the beginning of our new Body Series: ongoing conversations about the nuances of being in relationship with our bodies. And today I'm announcing the first live round of my Your Emotional Eating Blueprint: Why Am I Eating This Now? course, which you can hear more about by getting on my email list!

We discuss:

Sas’ relationship with her body + illness
Diet culture as “thin at all costs”
Feeling peace within our bodies
Centering strength & health instead of weight loss
How Sas has changed her eating habits
Why restriction is different than deprivation
Doing the “good thing” vs actually feeling good
Finding satisfaction in our day-to-day
Letting go of the Weight Watchers “walk of shame”

More about our guest: Sas Petherick believes that healing our self-doubt is one of the most important contributions we can make to ourselves, our families, our work, and the world.

Sas holds a Master's degree from Oxford, and her research on self-doubt was published in the International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring. She has developed an evidence-based, trauma-informed, ICF-accredited coaching methodology for cultivating self-belief.

For over a decade, Sas has coached with hundreds of women experiencing self-doubt in their professional and personal lives. Sas hosts the top 1% rated self-doubt podcast Courage & Spice which has enjoyed over half a million downloads. She is also an accomplished speaker and has developed coaching workshops and programmes for clients like BBC Worldwide and Pinterest. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines.

After 25 years in the UK, Sas currently lives by the beach in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, with her partner Ash and pooch Bohdi, imagining a post-capitalist world, exploring consciousness, and listening to obscure UFO podcasts.

Connect with Sas Petherick:

Visits Sas’s website
Follow Sas on Instagram
Subscribe to Sas’s newsletter Courage & Spice

Mentioned in this episode:

That Sugar Film
Freedom From Cravings Self Study
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