How to stop fixating on your body in the era of GLP-1s

0:00Your creative force, your ability to connect, your gifts get a little bit diminished.

0:08Like every little bit of energy you're putting into sucking in your nose or your stomach or your shine, you know, oh no, I'm distracted by my shiny face, pulls away energy from you.

0:18Like, and what people want is you.

0:26Hey, it's Marielle Segarra.

0:27You're listening to LifeKit.

0:29And that was Diana Hill.

0:30She's a clinical psychologist, and this is a topic she's been thinking about a lot.

0:35How has this come up in your practice with your clients?

0:39Body dissatisfaction has been around for a long time, and it's actually not the body dissatisfaction that I target in my practice as much as when you are dissatisfied with your body, when you have a negative thought about your arms looking older, or you have a negative thought about the bags under your eyes, how much energy and time are you putting into that negative thought, whether it's obsessing about it in the mirror or going on Instagram trying to find some ways to fix it versus being able to engage in your life and the things that you care about?