Mind the Body Podcast

🎧 Episode 14: Coming Home to Your Body – Healing After Complex TraumaWhat happens when the body no longer feels like home?In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore how complex trauma shapes the nervous system, disconnects us from the body, and affects the way we experience ourselves, relationships, and the world around us.Drawing on the work of Judith Herman, Caroline Garland, Ruth Lanius and colleagues, and Gabor Maté, I discuss why disconnection from the body develops as a survival response, how trauma is stored in the body, and why healing needs to happen at the sensory and nervous system level.In This EpisodeHow complex trauma affects the body and nervous systemWhy disconnection from the body develops as a survival responseThe relationship between trauma, body image, and relationshipsHow EMDR and somatic approaches support healingA Question to Sit WithWhere in your life might your body be trying to come home?References:Herman, J. (1992). Trauma and Recovery. Basic Books.Garland, C. (Ed.). (2002). Understanding Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Approach. Karnac Books.Lanius, R. A., Harricharan, S., Kearney, B. E., & Pandev-Girard, B. (2025). Sensory Pathways to Healing from Trauma: Harnessing the Brain’s Capacity for Change. The Guilford PressHaverly, C., & Young, E. (2026). Trauma-Informed Bodywork. North Atlantic BooksContent NoteThis episode discusses complex trauma and childhood relational trauma. Please listen with care.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 13: The Constructed Self, The Disconnected Self - On feeling lost, hidden, and finding your way backSomething feels off, but it’s hard to name.In this episode of Mind the Body, I explore two experiences I hear often: “I don’t know who I am anymore” and “I just feel lost.” While they sound similar, they speak to different kinds of disconnection - one psychological, one deeply embodied.Here, I look at how the self we present to the world can slowly take over, until it’s the only place we know how to live from. Drawing on psychoanalytic thinking, clinical experience, and the impact of social media, I explore how the gap between who we are and who we show can quietly widen over time.We also move into what happens when parts of the self go into hiding, how early relationships and shame shape what feels safe to express, and how the body holds what cannot be spoken. And finally, what it means to find your way back, through real connection.In This Episode:The difference between feeling lost and losing contact with who you are, and how these experiences take shape over timeHow the “constructed self” develops, and why it can begin to replace something more realWhat happens when parts of the self go into hiding, and how that disconnection is felt in the bodyWhy being seen is not the same as being known, and what actually allows the self to returnA Question to Sit With:What moments in your life make you feel out of touch with who you are?Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 12: The Changing Body - Perimenopause, Identity and What We're Really CarryingSomething is happening that remains largely unspoken, yet deeply felt.In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore the psychological and relational experience of perimenopause - a biological transition that also reshapes identity, visibility, and self-perception. This conversation moves beyond symptoms to examine what it means to inhabit a changing body in a culture that equates a woman’s worth with youth.Drawing on clinical experience, psychoanalytic thinking, and research on body image, I look at how this transition can surface long-held questions about worth, desirability, and belonging, and why, for some women, it can feel less like a passage and more like a quiet unravelling.We also explore the emotional context behind the rising use of GLP-1 medications in midlife women, asking what might sit beneath the desire to change the body at this particular moment in time.In This Episode:How perimenopause reshapes a woman’s relationship to her body and sense of selfWhy this transition can activate deeper questions of worth, identity, and attachmentThe difference between true acceptance and a quiet withdrawal from the bodyWhat may sit beneath the urge to “fix” the body, and why it often isn’t about the body at allThe emotional and cultural context behind increasing GLP-1 use in midlifeA Question to Sit With:What is this moment in your body bringing up for you?References:Szymona-Pałkowska, K., Adamczuk, J., Sapalska, M., Gorbaniuk, O., Robak, J. M., & Kraczkowski, J. J. (2019). Body image in perimenopausal women. Menopause Review, 18(4), 210–216.Murphy, M. B., Lane, A., Cuskelly, G., & Heavey, P. M. (2025). Experiences of weight and body shape changes during perimenopause. Women & Health, 65(10), 861–870.Kolod, S. (2022). I’m not myself today: Dialogues with Philip Bromberg. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 58(2–3), 321–334.eMarketer (2025). Twice as many US consumers now using GLP-1s. Retrieved from https://www.emarketer.com/content/twice-many-us-consumers-now-using-glp-1sTake a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 11: The Hunger That Isn't Just Hunger - On “Skinny Jabs” and What Goes Quiet WithinWhat happens when hunger disappears, and what else might go quiet alongside it?In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore the psychological and relational meaning of hunger in the context of GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Mounjaro. While these drugs are often discussed in terms of weight loss and appetite suppression, this conversation looks at what hunger represents beyond biology.I build on psychoanalytic thinking, including the work of Susie Orbach, alongside attachment theory and my clinical work, to explore how hunger is one of our earliest forms of communication - shaped by our relationships, our histories, and our sense of whether it is safe to need.I also explore what happens when the body changes faster than the psyche can follow, and whether the silencing of hunger can, for some, echo earlier experiences of having to suppress need in order to feel acceptable or safe.In This Episode:Why hunger has never been just about food, but about need, longing, and early attachmentHow GLP-1 medications may interrupt a deeper psychological conversation with the bodyWhat happens when physical transformation outpaces psychological integrationWhy rapid body change can surface anxiety, grief, or a loss of identityThe difference between symptom relief and deeper psychological healingA Question to Sit With:What would it mean to listen to your hunger, rather than silence it?Invitation:If you’d like to go deeper, you can join the Mind the Body newsletter here.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 10: Pretty Hurts – What Cosmetic Surgery Tells Us About Childhood TraumaWhat drives the desire to change the body, and why can it feel so urgent?In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore the link between cosmetic surgery, childhood trauma, and body image. While cultural pressures like beauty standards and social media are real, research suggests something deeper may also be at work.A 2024 study found that women seeking cosmetic procedures reported significantly higher levels of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including abuse and neglect, and higher rates of anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem than matched controls.Drawing on the work of psychoanalyst Alessandra Lemma, I explore how the body can become a way of communicating experiences that were never put into words, and why altering the body may not resolve what sits beneath it.In This Episode:What research shows about the link between cosmetic surgery and childhood trauma (ACEs)Why the desire to change the body may be carrying experiences that don’t yet have languageHow early relationships shape body image, self-worth, and the sense of being “enough”Why changing the body doesn’t necessarily change how you feel internally or in relationshipsA Question to Sit With:When the urge to change the body feels urgent, it may be carrying something deeper, something that hasn’t yet been put into words.Mentioned in This Episode:Lemma, A. (2010). Under the skin: A psychoanalytic study of body modification. Routledge.Faezi, F., & Amiri, S. (2024). Adverse childhood experiences and mental health issues in patients seeking cosmetic surgery: A case-control study. JPRAS Open.  Content NoteThis episode discusses childhood trauma and adverse experiences. Please listen with care.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 9: The Virtual Body: Gaming, Chronic Illness & EscapeWhen the body becomes a source of pain, unpredictability, or shame - where does the self go?In this episode of Mind The Body, I explore gaming, chronic illness, and body image, and why virtual worlds can feel like relief when the body feels difficult to live in. For some, the virtual body offers a return to a self interrupted by chronic illness - something echoed in Gabrielle Zevin’s novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, where gaming becomes a space of identity beyond limitation. For others, it might resemble what psychoanalyst Esther Bick described as a ‘second skin’ - a way of holding the self together when an internal sense of containment feels fragile or underdeveloped.Drawing on Winnicott’s idea of transitional space, I explore how virtual worlds can offer both refuge and restoration. Gaming can function in this way, but only when it allows movement between the virtual self and the lived body, rather than replacing one with the other.In this episode, we explore:Why gaming can feel like a safe place to go when your body feels painful, unpredictable, or hard to be inHow virtual worlds can act as a kind of ‘holding space’ when you don’t feel fully held within yourself (Esther Bick’s ‘second skin’)How gaming can become a bridge between identity, chronic illness, and the self you feel you’ve lost or can’t accessWhat your avatar choices might reveal about identity, grief, and body imageKey Question:When you step into a virtual body… What are you stepping toward, and what are you setting down?Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 8: The Body as Stage - Chronic Illness, Body Image & Body GriefWhat happens when your body changes in ways you didn’t choose, and you no longer recognise yourself within it?Over the past seven episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, trauma, attachment, and neurodiversity. In this episode, we turn toward chronic illness and the psychological rupture that can occur when the body itself becomes unfamiliar, unpredictable, or altered.Drawing on psychoanalytic thinkers including Joyce McDougall, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion, alongside the work of Gabor Maté and writer Sophie Strand, this episode explores a central idea:Illness doesn’t just affect the body. It can become a stage on which something older, unspoken, and unresolved is finally given form.If you’ve ever felt estranged from your body, or like your body is holding something you can’t quite name, this episode offers a way to begin thinking about that experience.In this episode, we explore:How chronic illness can rupture the relationship between psyche and somaWhy body grief emerges in the gap between who you were and the body you now inhabitHow the body in breakdown can come to be experienced as a “bad object”Why medical encounters can sometimes deepen disconnection rather than hold itHow the body can carry what was never able to be spoken or knownWhy body image disturbance in illness is often not new, but newly visibleThe difference between grieving what illness has taken vs. something older and unmetabolisedWhat it means to create the conditions in which the body’s story can finally be knownKey Insight:The body is extraordinarily faithful.It holds what the mind cannot.Healing is not only about grieving what illness has taken, it is about creating the conditions in which what the body has been carrying can finally begin to be known.This episode is for you if:You are living with chronic illness or ongoing health changesYou feel disconnected, alienated, or at odds with your bodyYou’re navigating shifts in identity, appearance, or capacityYou’re interested in psychoanalytic or depth-oriented understandings of the bodyYou sense there is more to your experience than what can be medically explainedTake a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 7: Why Your Body Feels Different: Neurodiversity, Sensory Overload & BelongingOver the past six episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, trauma, and attachment.In this episode, we explore the missing piece: neurodiversity and how differences in sensory processing, interoception, and regulation shape how the body actually feels, not just how it is perceived.Drawing on the work of neuroscientist Mark Solms, Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory, Damian Milton’s concept of the double empathy problem, and Christopher Bollas’ idea of the unthought known, we explore how internal experience, nervous system states, and relational understanding intersect.In this episode, we explore:How neurodiversity shapes the internal experience of the bodyWhy sensory discomfort is often mistaken for body image issuesWhat interoception is and how it affects emotion, hunger, and self-awarenessThe impact of masking and the concept of the “false body”The physical cost of suppressing natural regulation and needsHow neurodivergence shows up in intimacy and relationshipsThe mismatch between neurotypical expectations and neurodivergent needsThe “double empathy problem” and relational misunderstandingsWhy honouring sensory needs is key to connection and body trustKey insight:What is often labelled as a body image problem may actually be a mismatch between your nervous system and the environment you're trying to function in.Free ResourceIf you’re ready to begin gently rebuilding trust with your body, download the 7 Day Body Trust Reset - a series of short daily audio practices designed to help you reconnect with safety and compassion.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 6: Bridget Jones - Attachment, Body Image, and the Anxious–Avoidant PatternOver the past five episodes, we’ve explored how body image is shaped by culture, early relationships, trauma, and attachment.In this episode, we use the character of Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones’s Diary as a lens to explore these patterns. While often framed as romantic comedy, Bridget’s struggles with body image, insecurity, and emotionally unavailable partners reflect deeper attachment patterns.Drawing on attachment research from Allan Schore, alongside relationship dynamics described in Levine & Heller’s Attached and Julie Menanno’s Secure Love, we explore how body image can become the place where attachment wounds are expressed.In this episode, we explore:How early relational experiences shape body imageThe link between maternal messaging, worth, and appearanceAnxious attachment and body hypervigilanceWhy Bridget is drawn to emotional inconsistency (the anxious–avoidant trap)How body anxiety intensifies in insecure relationshipsThe difference between attachment style and nervous system regulationWhat earned security looks like for someone carrying these patternsWhy healing requires grief, embodiment, and secure relationshipsKey insight:Bridget’s body was never the problem. Her body became the place where an attachment wound was expressed.Healing begins not with changing the body, but with understanding the attachment blueprint beneath it and building experiences of relational safety and earned security.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 5: The “Revenge Body” - What We’re Really Trying to Fix After HeartbreakOver the past four episodes, we’ve explored body image as shaped by culture, attachment, and trauma.In this episode, we bring those threads together through a culturally familiar phenomenon: the “revenge body.”The post-breakup transformation. The intense focus on changing your body after heartbreak. The belief that if you look different, you’ll feel different.But what is the revenge body really about?In this episode, we explore:The “revenge body” as an attachment protestHow breakups can reactivate early wounds around worthiness and abandonmentWhy we locate relational pain in the bodyThe illusion of control that body transformation offers after heartbreakWhy changing your appearance does not resolve attachment/relational woundsThe concept of the “false body” and performing for the imagined gazeHow grief and trauma must be processed through the body - not by changing itWhat healing actually requires: grief, self-compassion, earned security, and reconnectionThis exploration draws on the work of Thomas Cash on body image, Peter Levine on somatic experiencing, Esther Perel on modern relationships, and Judith Herman on trauma and recovery.Key Insight:What looks like revenge is often an attempt to repair a relational wound.It is an effort to answer the question: “If I were different, would you have stayed?”Transformation promises relief - but relational pain cannot be resolved through appearance. The body becomes a project when what we are truly seeking is security, worth, and the capacity to survive loss.Healing after heartbreak does not come from perfecting the body.It comes from grieving, rebuilding attachment security, and coming home to yourself.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 4: Building Secure Attachments - How Attachment Styles Shape Body Image and RelationshipsOver the past three episodes, we’ve explored body image as something shaped by culture, early experiences, and trauma.In this episode, we turn to attachment.Attachment is formed through the body - through early experiences of being held, soothed, mirrored, and responded to. These early relational patterns shape not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to ourselves.Including our bodies.Drawing on the foundational work of John Bowlby (Attachment and Loss), Mary Ainsworth, and later developments by Mary Main on earned security, this episode explores how attachment patterns formed in childhood continue to influence adult relationships, emotional regulation, and body experience.We also explore contemporary attachment-informed perspectives from:Linda Cundy - Anxiously Attached, Attachment and the Defence Against Intimacy, and Attachment, Relationships and Food: From Cradle to Kitchen, which examines how early feeding relationships shape later experiences of food and embodimentDiane Poole Heller The Power of Attachment - on somatic approaches to earned securityAllan Schore Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self - on right-brain development and affect regulationIn this episode, we examine:Why attachment and body image are inseparableThe four attachment patterns: secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganisedHow attachment dynamics shape dating and intimate relationshipsWhy body image anxiety is often attachment anxiety expressed through the bodyWhat trauma-informed dating requiresThe concept of “earned security” and how attachment patterns can changeKey Insight: Attachment patterns are adaptive - but they are not fixed.As attachment becomes more secure through therapy, consistent relationships, and body-based work, the relationship with the body often shifts.What appears to be a struggle with appearance is often a nervous system organised around safety and connection.Healing begins with building security -  in relationship, in the nervous system, and in the body.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 3: Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Body ImageOver the past two episodes, we’ve explored body image as a language - shaped by culture, attachment, and relationship.In this episode, we turn directly toward trauma.What if body hatred isn’t superficial - but protective?What if the way you relate to your body makes perfect sense given what you’ve experienced?This episode traces the powerful and often unspoken link between trauma and body image - and why traditional approaches to healing frequently fail when the nervous system remains dysregulated.Please note: this episode includes references to sexual abuse and trauma. Take care while listening.In this episode, we examine:Why trauma is broader than we often realise - including cumulative and developmental experiencesThe difference between “Big T” and “little t” trauma - and why both matterHow trauma lives in the nervous system, not just in conscious memoryThe impact of dissociation and disrupted interoceptionAlessandra Lemma’s distinction between the dyadic and monadic bodyWhy body image disturbance is often trauma speakingWhy cognitive reframing alone doesn’t work when the nervous system is dysregulatedWhat healing actually requires: safety, reconnection, and relationshipKey Insight:Trauma is not only what happened to you - it is what your body had to hold in the absence of safety.When trauma disrupts your connection to sensation and relationship, the body can become the place where unsafety, shame, and survival responses are displaced.What looks like body image struggle is often an intelligent adaptation.Drawing on the work of Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, Stephen Porges, Alessandra Lemma, Nicole Schnackenberg, and Hillary McBride, this episode reframes body image through a trauma-informed lens.Healing does not begin with changing your thoughts.It begins with safety.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 2: Body Image in LoveWhere does body image really begin - and why does it show up so powerfully in our intimate relationships?In this episode of Mind the Body, I examine how body image struggles are shaped long before adulthood - through cultural messaging, early attachment relationships, and experiences that disrupt safety in the body.While body dissatisfaction often appears to be about appearance, this episode looks beneath the surface - at how relational pain, insecurity, and unmet attachment needs are displaced onto the body, and why intimacy can become one of the most triggering spaces for body shame.Drawing on psychodynamic theory, attachment research, and clinical work, this episode traces three interconnected origins of body image distress - and how each one surfaces in dating, long-term relationships, desire, and sexual intimacy.In this episode, we explore:How culture teaches us to objectify our bodies - and what that costs us in intimacyWhy body image is deeply relational, not just personalThe link between insecure attachment and body dissatisfactionHow early caregiving, maternal desire, and physical attunement shape embodimentWhy body shame often intensifies after relational rupture or emotional distanceHow body shame interferes with desire, pleasure, and erotic alivenessThe difference between being seen physically and being known psychologicallyKey Insight:Body image is often the place where unresolvable relational conflict gets played out.When it doesn’t feel safe to be fully yourself in relationship, the body often becomes the scapegoat.Books referenced in this episode:The Wisdom of Your Body - Hillary McBrideUnder the Skin - Alessandra LemmaPlaying and Reality - D.W. WinnicottThe Bell Jar - Sylvia PlathWork and talks by Esther PerelTake a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

🎧 Episode 1: Your Body Image Isn’t About Your Body - It’s a LanguageWelcome to the first episode of Mind The Body.I’m your host, Yvette Vuaran, psychodynamic psychotherapist and EMDR therapist specialising in body image, attachment, and trauma.In this episode, I explore why body image struggles are rarely about appearance. Instead, they often reflect early relationships, unprocessed trauma, and the ways we learned to disconnect from ourselves in order to feel safe and accepted.Rather than treating the body as something to fix, this conversation invites you to understand body image as a language - one that communicates emotional truth when words can’t.This episode also examines how the careers we choose often aren’t random. Many of us unconsciously gravitate toward work environments that echo early relational patterns - shaping how we use our bodies, appearance, and identity to belong or gain approval.In this episode, we explore:Why body image is a language, not a problem to solveHow treating the body as an object deepens disconnectionThe concept of the ‘false body’ and how it developsWhy healing isn’t about loving your body, but listening to itA simple question to begin rebuilding trust with your bodyFree ResourceIf you’re ready to begin gently rebuilding trust with your body, download the 7 Day Body Trust Reset - a series of short daily audio practices designed to help you reconnect with safety and compassion.Books referenced in this episode:Under the Skin - Alessandra LemmaPlaying and Reality - D.W. WinnicottBodies - Susie OrbachFat Is a Feminist Issue - Susie OrbachFalse Bodies, True Selves - Nicole SchnackenbergTake a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran

If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your body — unsure how to bridge the gap between what you think and what you feel — this podcast is for you.Hosted by psychodynamic psychotherapist and EMDR therapist Yvette Vuaran, Mind the Body explores how trauma, body image, and relationships shape our sense of self — and how healing the divide between mind and body helps us feel more at home within ourselves.Together, we’ll explore how the body remembers, how the mind protects, and how understanding that connection can change the way we live and love.Take a breath, settle in — it’s time to mind the body.DisclaimerThis podcast is for education and inspiration and is not a substitute for therapy or medical advice.Take a breath, stay curious, and explore what it truly means to Mind The Body.Join the CommunitySubscribe or follow the show so you never miss an episode.Share this episode with a friend who’s exploring body image healing, the mind–body connection, emotional healing, and the patterns that shape how we see ourselves.Connect or learn more: www.yvettevuaran.com Sign up for my Mind The Body NewsletterFollow @mindthebodypodcast @yvettevuaran