Stop The War With Yourself This Summer: Its Time To Switch The Narrative

And I'm hanging the washing out and I'm thinking, it's all so fake.

It's this whole narrative and this whole pressure that women are feeling.

Like, there's so many women right now, as I sit down to record this, we're in the middle of a heatwave in the UK.

No doubt by the time this airs, that will have passed.

I don't think it's intended to last much longer than the week, but anyway.

there are so many women right now who have been looking forward to summer all year.

Like we do, we look forward to the summer weather and we romanticize, you know, the summer walks and the nice clothes and, you know, the salad weather and everything else.

And then it arrives and we feel like we've fallen behind.

Like the minute that summer arrives, we feel like, oh, we've not made headway on like, like as if our body runs against a deadline and, And I'll tell you where this has come from, this conversation.

And I think it'll resonate with a lot of you.

So hear me out.

As I've said, I'll try and keep off the soapbox because nobody wants to hear me on a rant.

But I'm hoping that this conversation, ladies, will offer you a different perspective.

Because so many of us, and I have definitely been caught in this cycle myself.

we get caught up, we get swept into this whole hamster wheel of we're on it, we're off it, we must look a certain way by a certain date.

You know, the industry that I'm referring to is we need to be summer ready, okay? And yes, absolutely, we wanna feel great come summertime, but that's, it's not a dress size, it's not a number on the scale, that's a feeling, but then again, the industry, get us all prepped for summer, and then you know what, just go out and live your best life in summer, like this is what you've been working towards, have the balance, have your cake and eat it, enjoy all of the fun stuff, because guess what, we're going to come back in September, and we're going to offer you, Like a reset.

And then you're going to wing it again for a couple of months.

And then in November, we're going to do this big countdown to Christmas.

And it's just this constant...

It's like a money-making machine.

And it's putting so much pressure on women that we're losing sight of what matters most.

Which is the taking care of ourselves.

And this feeling of feeling at your best...

As I've said, it's not a dress size, ladies, and it's not a number on the scales.