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This interview came about as a result of an Instagram post I shared. I posted a photo which featured a silhouette of my body. The caption read, ‘I am not pregnant’. Because often I get asked if I am pregnant. I went on to share that it's taken years to come to a place of accepting and loving my body and not being upset every time that I'm asked that.Meg commented, ‘Love this Clare! I liberated my belly this year after being diagnosed with a prolapse and learning how the way we are conditioning women to move and hold ourselves contributes. I could literally talk about my belly all day long! I love how my back now has a curve and I can wear different types of clothes! ❤️❤️❤️’The idea of accepting and embracing your body as self-care became apparent and I knew I would love to interview Meg to explore this topic further.Meg is a mother, a feminist, a coach, a facilitator, and a yoga teacher who helps women liberate themselves from socially prescribed ideals to step into sacred social leadership.She believes that relationship breakdowns and career crises are portals into deep individual and planetary healing that centres healthy relating, holistic wellness and earth stewardship.Meg brings together more than 10 years of work around social change, her Masters Degree in Gender and Public Health, and her experience as a yoga teacher, coach and leadership facilitator to create incredible learning experiences for women seeking radical wellbeing, deep connection, and an unshakeable sense of purpose.“The starting point sometimes of changing our internal language is changing how we relate to others about this stuff. And so that's why I'm so grateful to be having these conversations with you because I am so happy to have zero filter and share all of the gory details because I think that it's truly in service of what we're trying to move culture toward”, says Meg.What We Talked About:- Self-care as an act of rebellion.- Our relationship with our bellies as a portal into how we relate to women, to womanhood, to mothers, to each other as women, and then also how we relate to the earth.- Being diagnosed with a prolapse, which took 10 months after the birth of her second child to be discovered.- Discovering Christine Kent’s work on the pelvic area, and her assertion that prolapse is a postural condition- According to Christine, the optimal posture for women is different to what we are taught in Western Culture- This posture leads to the belly poking out, which Meg found liberating and a home coming. She no longer lived to fit into an unnatural, unattainable ideal.- Belly in or belly out of the undies.- Learning not to make others comfortable at the expense of yourself.- Lessons in standing up for yourself against microaggressions. Allowing someone else to experience discomfort rather than wounding the self.- Being devoted to your personal truth rather than the other person’s comfort.- Getting ‘bikini ready’ versus ‘putting on a bikini’.“If we all listen to our inner knowing, we would be honouring our cycles. We would be honouring the seasons. We would not be living the way we are living. We would be in deep connection with people and each other. We would be in deep stewardship of our land. We would be in deep self-responsibility around our impact”, Meg says. Connect With Meg:InstagramFacebookWebsiteConnect With Clare:InstagramFacebookMembership