I Love Me with Tamra Mercieca14 Okt 2025

74 Body Dysmorphia + Falling in Love with Your Looks.

Have you ever stood in front of the mirror and thought… “If only this part of me were different…If only I looked more like them… If only I could fix this, then I’d finally feel okay”?

I know that ache — because for years, I lived it too. I battled with body dysmorphia, constantly comparing, constantly critiquing, never feeling enough — no matter how “together” I looked on the outside. And what I discovered, after years of trying to fix the outside, is this: The problem was never my body. It was the beliefs I held about my body.

The real healing began when I stopped trying to change how I looked — and started changing how I spoke to myself. When I stopped treating my body as something to control, and started treating it as something to honour. That’s what this week’s episode on I Love Me with Tamra Mercieca is all about: How to begin healing body dysmorphia and body shame from the inside out.

In this episode, I share my personal story — the raw parts, the healing parts, and the exact practices that helped me move from self-criticism to self-acceptance. Because true beauty doesn’t come from filters, makeup, or weight loss. It comes from softening the way we see ourselves. It comes from love — real, unconditional, inner love.

So if you’ve been feeling disconnected from your body… If you find yourself comparing, hiding, or wishing things were different… Please take a few minutes to listen. This might just be the episode that starts your journey home to yourself. 💗

Take a peek at the full episode show notes (and resources I refer to in the show) here:

https://gettingnaked.com.au/2025/10/14/ep-74-body-dysmorphia-falling-in-love-with-your-looks/

About me…

Hi, I’m Tamra Mercieca, a Self-Love Therapist, Women’s Pelvic Health Guide, and host of I Love Me The Podcast. For 20+ years I’ve been teaching people worldwide how to heal depression and anxiety naturally, strengthen pelvic health, and cultivate radical self-love.

In 2011, I founded Getting Naked, an online school offering resources and programs that help people strip away limiting beliefs and childhood conditioning so they can feel confident, connected, free in their bodies and able to love and accept themselves unconditionally.

Alongside being a mum, wife, tea lover, and drummer, I’m qualified in more than a dozen holistic healing modalities. I’ve written two books, been published worldwide (print, TV, radio, etc), and often share my passion for self-love, mental health and pelvic wellbeing at yoga and spirituality festivals.

My own journey began when I learned how to overcome suicidal depression and anxiety without medication. From that, I created a ten-session self-love therapy program that now helps others do the same.

On the podcast, I share personal stories, tools and science-backed down-to-earth practices for emotional healing, women’s health, and living with more joy and freedom. May you feel more whole and more complete, by simply tuning in!

If you’d like to read my full love story and bio - including all my credentials - head to https://gettingnaked.com.au/tamra/

Resources…

Ep.2 Programmed For Love https://gettingnaked.com.au/2024/02/14/e2-programmed-for-love/

One-on-One Intensive https://gettingnaked.com.au/intensive/

Self-Love Therapy https://gettingnaked.com.au/about/

Self-Love Starter’s Kit https://gettingnaked.com.au/self-love-starters-kit/

Contact…

Website: https://gettingnaked.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gettingnaked/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RelationshipQueen/

Music written by Tamra Mercieca and Grey Milton. Performed by Xani Kolac and Grey Milton.

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