Don’t Punish Your Body, Celebrate It: How Two Sisters Created a Container for Self-Acceptance with Carla & Emma Papas

Under the influence of toxic diet culture, it’s hard, even impossible to have any measure of self-acceptance. 

The meaning of life becomes how much we weigh, not about using the powerful voices we have for anything other than derogatory statements towards ourselves. 

The MerryMaker Sisters experienced the pain that comes with subscribing to a harmful model of fitness, and they created a program to combat it. 

Why do we have to stop using dieting as a way to demean ourselves?

How do we take care of our bodies from a loving place? 

In this episode, Carla and Emma Papas share how they built their membership on self-acceptance and joy. 

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode 

The story of MerryBody

How do we apply a test-test-test approach to building our programs and infuse it with real feedback from the people we want to help?

How to use exercise to celebrate your body, not punish it 

Why is diet culture so destructive to our self-acceptance, belief and ability to tap into our magic? 

The power of mindset and meditation 

How do we turn our minds into our greatest cheerleader instead of our most unkind critic? 

Guest Bio 

Emma and Carla Papas are the Founders of The Merrymaker Sisters and Merrybody Studio. They started The Merrymaker Sisters as a hobby in 2013, and it began as a blog to simply share their favorite healthy recipes, thoughts on mindset, dieting, fitness and life in general. 

Through their journey with Yoga, Pilates and Meditation Emma and Carla realized the only thing that truly matters is how we feel about ourselves right NOW, not when we lose a specific number of kgs or fit into that dress. Yoga, Pilates and Meditation was the key to realizing that right here, right now…you are absolutely, 100% enough.

Their goal is simple: they want you to come on over to their site, read, watch, move with them, cook with them and feel more self-acceptance, self-respect and more joy. 

To find out more about their membership and for a 7-day trial, visit https://themerrymakersisters.com/merrybody. 

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