Work pressure can trap you in obsessive cycles with food and your body. The speaker draws on personal experience to argue that linking self-worth to eating habits is a cultural trap, and that real success means protecting your well-being alongside your career.
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The pressure to succeed can really lead to a very unhealthy focus on food and body image. And I know you're not doing it consciously. I know it's not something that you're choosing to do, but if you don't know how to manage the stress that comes along with your job and you don't understand how to question and unravel the cultural norms that we put around food and body image and leading, you can get stuck in this cycle of being obsessed with food and using food to feel better, to help you cope. But I want you to remember that true success is about sustaining your well-being alongside with your professional achievements. I want to help you break free from this food obsession. Y'all, I have been there. I get it. I understand. It is possible to create a better relationship with food, heal your relationship with food, to not have food have so much control over you. And you can really develop a balanced relationship with all [MUSIC] [MUSIC]