Episode #106: Feeling Good in Your Body: The Truth Your Soul Already Knows

Dorothy McGatlin Coaching
Episode #106: Feeling Good in Your Body: The Truth Your Soul Already Knows
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There’s a deep truth I’ve been feeling lately, one that has completely changed how I see weight loss, wellness, and the idea of “getting healthy.”

Your soul doesn’t care about losing weight.


Your soul cares about you feeling good in your body.

Not someday.
Not once you finally hit your goal weight.
Not after you become more consistent or disciplined.

But now.

In the body you’re living in today.

But here’s where things get complicated…

Our human selves get tangled in comparison, expectations, and conditioning. We’ve spent years absorbing messages from social media, TV, magazines, and even well meaning comments growing up. It becomes almost impossible to tell:

Is this what I truly want?


Or is this what I’ve been trained to want?

 

This is why so many women feel disconnected from their bodies. We don’t always know which desires are ours and which are the world’s.

 

Your Soul Wants Something Different

Your soul came here to have a human experience, to feel, grow, evolve, and expand through this vessel that is your body.

Your soul wants you to:

  • feel alive

  • feel grounded

  • feel strong

  • feel safe

  • feel connected

That’s why movement feels good.
That’s why presence feels good.
That’s why breath feels good.

It’s less about weight loss and more about capacity, your capacity to live fully, and feel good doing it.  Perhaps that means weight loss, but it also always starts with finding rhythms and routines that feel good now.

Your Human Self Wants to Feel Good, Too

Even toddlers want to feel confident, powerful, pretty, strong. It’s human nature to want joy, ease, expression.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to “look good.”
We do it every day, makeup, hair, clothes, nails.

The problem is when we believe that we can only feel good after we lose weight, or once we "look good"

Feeling Good Can’t Be a Reward

You can’t hate yourself into a healthier body.
You can’t shame yourself into a regulated nervous system.

Feeling good isn’t a prize.
It’s your starting point.

This Is Where Nervous System Regulation Comes In

When your body feels safe, everything shifts:

  • your cravings change

  • your choices feel easier

  • movement becomes self-care

  • consistency becomes possible

  • your capacity expands

Weight loss stops being a battle.
It becomes a ripple.

Your Body Is Always Communicating

Your body speaks in sensations:

Exhaustion.
Jitters.
Restlessness.
Cravings.
Tightness.
Sickness.

These aren’t flaws, they’re signals.
Messages.
Guidance.

The more you listen, the more you’ll know exactly what you need.

You Weren’t Meant to Struggle Through Life

You were meant to experience it, fully, beautifully, and in a body that feels supported, calm, and alive.

This episode is your reminder of that truth.

🎧 Listen to Episode 106 here: Feeling Good in Your Body: The Truth Your Soul Already Knows


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