Embracing Enough

#BodyGoals...What does it even mean when we reach them, and when we do, is it then when we are finally happy? Dina gets real with DC-based personal trainer, Nazinga Thomas, about what her experience has been training women and what she has learned along the way about our relationships with our bodies. Nazinga offers her perspective around the importance of focusing on strength and appreciation for what your body CAN do; instead of staying stuck in a mindset of fear or doubt about what is possible. She also reflects on her own journey to fitness at a time when exercise and weight training gave her comfort in ways she could never imagine. And a bonus! She offers her insights into what she has learned from her study of reiki and healing energy and how they are equally important so that mind-body-spirit can be in alignment.

In a candid discussion with wellness coaches, Erica Robertiello and Lauren Bradley, we explore their experiences coaching women on their journey to stop chasing fullness and instead, to start feeling. These powerhouse women will talk what nourishment really looks like and what the chase to feeling full might be masking.

In this episode, Dina unpacks her thoughts on our relationship to our bodies and how it's so much more than what we see in the mirror. How we see ourselves on the outside is just one part of the story; but for so many, it represents a huge part of what influences the stories we tell ourselves. It high time to we get revolutionary about this conversation around body image and reject the messages that tell us our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Dina explores her own battle with what (and who) she saw in the mirror, a decision that changed her life, and discusses what she is able to see today.

Embracing Enough answers your questions! At the end of this four-episode segment, Dina responds to the burning questions listeners have on the segment that explored issues facing adolescent girls. Questions like is preschool too early to tell girls they are enough? Or what would you go back and tell your younger self? And what are your dreams for Enough Labs? We get into these questions and so many others! 

For a complex set of reasons, most of what is known about adolescent girls focuses on the problems they face. The fact that many adolescent girls are showing remarkable strength, resiliency, and "hardiness" during the stressful time of adolescence needs to be explored. In this episode, Embracing Enough links up with two local educators - Sherilyn and Trauvello - from the DC/MD/VA area to get their take on resiliency amongst girls. We talk current day risks and stresses that need to be understood as defining factors in adolescence. Sherilyn and Trauvello not only talk about their perspectives as educators, but we also muse about their own story, how they grew up naturally smart and explore how that influenced their respective journeys of being enough. 

In a frank discussion about colorism and its impact on girls' self-esteem, Dina talks with Nashville-borne/DC-transplant Kellye who opens up about her journey with how she saw herself in her skin. Kellye shares her story around what it took for her to fall in love with her skin and the battle it took to get there. Her message to young girls: we are all beautiful – from head to toe.

In this episode, we will hear from two girls on their perspectives on adolescence - the ups and the downs, the challenges and the hopes.  Ava and Bella, both 13, shed light on how they are navigating the tricky waters of adolescence and how despite there being tough moments, they are THRIVING! The conversation explores their own story, and how what they are telling themselves influences how they show up in the world. What emerges from this conversation is an exploration of how Ava and Bella are continuing to be bold in how they are writing their own story for themselves.

Dina reflects on her own journey as a teenager, the struggle to belong and feeling enough. She muses about everything from her failed attempt as a budding gymnast to trying to find a way to tame the frizzy curls - and everything in between. This episode explores the challenges Dina recalls from her childhood into early adolescence, and reflects how it has given her a deeper appreciation of how girls find themselves on their journey to embracing the belief that they are ENOUGH.

Join empowerment coach, self-love advocate, and unwavering feminist Dina Scippa facilitate meaningful conversation with women and girls as they unpack their stories, share ideas, and reflect on the collective experience around what it takes to embrace the belief that we are enough. Embracing Enough is a podcast that celebrates women and girls and their stories, exactly where they are; encouraging all us that we do not have to  strive to become more worthy, more valid, more acceptable, or more loved. We are already are all of those things - we just need to embrace it.