Episode 104: How to Love Your Body

By Sarah Walton | December 28, 2021

Click here to watch the video version of this podcast episode

I have a confession to make. Sometimes I stalk people.

I know. It’s a true story, though. And today’s podcast guest is one of my people. I have a feeling you’re going to love her as much as I do.

Marla is the creator and founder of Love Your Body Love Yourself. She helps women find a resounding “YES!” to the question:

Do you love your body?

And like all the guests I have on the show, Marla walks the talk. She’s the real deal. She’s been in the trenches of warfare with her own body, too — and she knows what the struggle is like.

After years of struggling with her own dysfunctional body relationship, Marla has transformed her experiences into services to help women find peace with their own bodies.

What I love about Marla — and this interview! — is how honest she is. She doesn’t hold back when it comes to her own experience, and there’s zero “holier than thou” in her conversations, which is really important when it comes to healing our relationship to food and our own bodies.

Oh, and if you check this interview out on YouTube, you have to notice how pretty the sun is behind her. It created this really cool halo effect, and it seriously made me want to move to Maui, where she lives with her husband and son.

But back to the interview …

I ask some of the questions that have been top of my mind for me for a long time:

Because dieting is so toxic to our bodies and minds, what do I do if I want to shrink the size of my body?
What would you say to someone who’s terrified right now, and she doesn’t love her body?
What do we do in those moments when we feel so scared and so stuck about weight?

As a professional Marla, has been featured at TEDx Salinas. She was the leading body image expert and reiki master at Journey Malibu, a drug/alcohol rehabilitation center.

She’s followed her passion for women’s health down many paths of study, including women’s sexual wellness, postpartum care, Restore Your Core educator, Tantra teacher certification, yoga teacher training, and massage therapy.

This collected body of knowledge shines through in her offerings for Love Your Body Love Yourself. In all her work, Marla is devoted to empowering women to feel good about themselves and to live the life they desire.

She is a full-time professional coach, speaker, facilitator, and Living Light reiki master and teacher.

If you’d like to watch the video Marla mentioned during the interview, you can do that by clicking here.

If you’d like to check out Marla’s six-month program, Everyday Reiki for the Gradient Being, you can find that here.

That’s six months of coaching and healing! Amazing.

After you listen in, you’re probably going to feel a whole lot of relief and acceptance —and you’ll know, once and for all, that when it comes to the weight loss struggle, you’re not alone.

If you’d like to follow Marla, you can do that by checking her out here: