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1.Mirror Tip: Practice a Neutral Focus

Next time you look in the mirror, resist the urge to zoom in on what you don’t like. Instead, pick one neutral thing to focus on — maybe the colour of your eyes, the curve of your shoulders, or the way light catches your hair.

Spend 30 seconds simply noticing it without judgment. The goal isn’t to love everything you see, but to break the habit of criticism and start seeing yourself with calm eyes rather than critical ones.

2. Notice the Language You Use About Yourself

Pay attention to the words and tone you use when you talk to or about yourself today.

When you catch a harsh or critical thought - ‘I look awful’, ‘I hate my legs…, pause and ask, ‘Would I speak to a friend like that’?

Then try to reframe it into something kinder and more realistic, such as:

‘My legs help me move through the day’.

‘My body is doing its best to support me’.

‘I don’t have to love everything I see to treat myself with respect’.

You’re not aiming for instant body love, just gentler, fairer language. Over time, that small shift can change how you feel in your own skin.

3. Daily Kindness Question

Each morning, ask yourself: ‘What’s one small act of care I can give my body today?’

It could be something simple like taking five deep breaths, choosing a nourishing meal, stepping outside for fresh air, or going to bed 20 minutes earlier.

Write your answer somewhere you’ll see it (your phone, planner, or mirror) and commit to doing it beforethe day ends.

These small, consistent acts of kindness are what rebuild trust with your body over time.

Dahlia is joined by Caroline Strawson, expert in understanding, identifying and recovering from trauma.

Dahlia and Caroline discuss what trauma is, how it is triggered and what it does to our nervous systems, our confidence and our mindset.

Caroline draws on her own traumatic experience of marrying a narcissist and shares how she recognised her situation and managed to break free and begin again.

Dahlia and Caroline discuss the stress of being stuck in what Caroline calls 'functional freeze' and how to build the confidence to move forward step by step.

Caroline Strawson is an award-winning Hay House Author, nervous system educator and

one of the world’s most influential voices in trauma informed healing and mental health. As

the founder of The Mental Wellbeing Company, the UK’s fastest-growing franchise, and

TIDAL – Trauma Informed Development And Learning, she is leading a national

movement to transform mental health in homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

With lived experience of domestic abuse, homelessness, debt and complex trauma,

Caroline rebuilt her life from rock bottom and has since dedicated her work to helping others

do the same. She is living proof that rock bottom can become a platform and that a

diagnosis, a label or a past chapter never has to define a person’s future.

Today, Caroline is a global educator, trainer and speaker, teaching that there are no bad

parts of us,, only nervous system responses and unhealed pain reducing shame on a

global scale..

She has personally trained thousands of practitioners, and is the creator and

lead educator of the world’s only Trauma Informed Coaching & Leadership Level 7

Qualification, delivered through her CMI Centre and accredited internationally.

She is trained in multiple therapeutic and coaching modalities including Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, Positive Psychology and Nervous System-based trauma therapies.

Caroline’s work reaches millions worldwide. She hosts a chart-topping podcast called No

Visible Bruises, with over 6 million downloads, her YouTube content has reached over 14

million views, and she has built a loyal and engaged community of over half a million

followers across her social platforms. Her expertise has been featured on national television

and in numerous publications, where she is frequently called upon as a trusted voice in

trauma, relationships and nervous system education.

Through TIDAL, Caroline and her team deliver trauma informed leadership and mental

health programmes into organisations, reducing burnout, absenteeism and emotional

fatigue and creating psychologically safe cultures where people feel seen, heard and

understood.

Caroline’s mission is driven by a simple but powerful belief that when people understand

their nervous system, they reclaim their choices. She is passionate about bringing compassion, science and humanity back into the way we view mental health, behaviour and emotional struggle reminding audiences everywhere that there is always a reason for how we feel and how we act, and that healing is critical for every nervous system.

Dahlia is joined by Tanya Joseph to discuss clothes, confidence and the momentum that created 'This Girl Can'.

Tanya was the architect behind the original 'This Girl Can' campaign which focused on encouraging girls and women to become more active through both communications and the removal of barriers to entry.

Dahlia and Tanya discuss importance of recognising that body confidence has been identified as directly linked to choices both women and men make about how active they choose to be and she shares the learning and action from the original campaign.

Tanya reflects on her own journey on clothes, confidence and identity explaining how she felt and what she chose to wear in her days as Press Secretary at Number 10 - walking the tightrope between blending into the room as the communications manager and being seen and recognised in her role.

The conversation discusses the deeper link between clothes, confidence and Tanya's view on what it means to be well dressed.

Tanya Joseph is a marketing and communications professional who has a particular expertise in behaviour change. She is the architect of This Girl Can, a campaign designed to encourage more women and girls to get active.

She has spent her entire professional life in communications, starting as a journalist before becoming a press secretary initially to the UK's Lord Chancellor and then the Prime Minister, a role she held for more than four years.

In 2003 she left the Civil Service to join the world of consultancy including senior roles at international agency Grayling, in-house at Tesco and Sport England. She is currently Director of the brand consultancy, Tanya Joseph Consulting.

Tanya is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and Director of Campaigning for Women in Advertising and Communications, London (WACL).

Dahlia is joined by Erin Gallagher to discuss what it means to be a 'hype' woman, to cheer on other women and to reap the rewards for yourself at the same time.

Dahlia and Erin discuss the fact that we often find ourselves sit in inertia desperate to change but that it's confidence that enables us to take a leap of faith. The conversation also includes an understanding of why we love the mean girls and an honest assessment of how to create and cultivate true friendships. The episode is about understanding our relationships have on how we feel and how we see ourselves and encourages listeners to be honest about how they build their A team.

Erin Gallagher is the CEO and Founder of HYPE WOMEN, an inclusive ecosystem hyping women to remember who the f*ck they are; author of Hype Women: Breaking Free from Mean Girls, Patriarchy and Systems Silencing Y ou; host and co-producer of the Hype Women Podcast; and creator of the global Hype Women Movement and

“The Fairway”- a dinner series and membership invested in networthing for women.

She began her career at Servicemembers

Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a non-profit legal services watchdog dedicated to ending the ban on LGBTQAI+ in the military (which they ultimately achieved). A two-time founder , Erin has spent her 20+ year career creating movements and leading global marketing, branding, communications,

strategy and PR for agencies and global

brands. She has counseled The White House,

Fortune 100 C-suite and senior leaders at

some of the world’s biggest and best brands

and companies.

Dahlia is joined by Jessica Fox and Charlotte Polley, co founders of one of the newest beauty apps Beauty Shelf.

Dahlia, Jessica and Charlotte discussing the explosion in beauty trends and the growth of influencer marketing in the beauty category.

As best friends they share the importance of taking and sharing advice with those you trust not just buying the next best thing or what is trending on Tik Tok.

The discussion includes an insight into how they built their business and the app and the confidence it took to put their beauty offer out there. The conversation finishes with an insight into manifesting success, the conscious decision to lean into manifesting, the cautiousness of building a business from scratch and how to find the business partner who is the ying to your yang!

Jessica and Charlotte are the two best friends and founders behind BeautyShelf, a newly launched social commerce app changing the way people discover and shop for beauty and wellness products in the UK.

Since launching just two months ago, they’ve built a fast-growing, engaged community of thousands of beauty lovers, with new users joining daily. BeautyShelf brings shopping, saving, and sharing routines into one space, where users and creators tag the products they genuinely use and love, driving authentic engagement and direct traffic to brands.

Dahlia joined by speaker, writer and fashion academic Stacey Heale to discuss identity, how our childhood dreams play out in our adult lives and navigating how we see ourselves and show the world who we are when we experience loss.

Dahlia and Stacey discuss where Stacey's research starts and the role our physical surroundings can have in shaping who we are. They specifically explore how bedroom decor is linked to identity from childhood and how this involves into adulthood (and parenting).

Stacey shares a very personal account of how becoming a carer and navigating grief shaped how she saw herself and how she used clothes as a demonstration of self expression to symbolise how she was feeling to those around her.

The episode discusses the subject of cancer and loss.

Stacey Heale is a writer, speaker, curator, fashion academic and campaigner who is inspiring radically honest discussions on the lived experience of women, focusing on the realities of difficult times and how to rebuild your life from the ground up.

Stacey's role is Teaching fellow at Winchester School of Art. Her academic research centres around the use of creativity to process trauma and the concept of the teenage bedroom as a site for identity construction. Stacey's 2018 TED talk focused on post-traumatic growth and the power of social media during a personal crisis. In November 2016, her husband, Delays lead singer Greg Gilbert, was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer and died in 2021. In that time, she has campaigned for lowering the age of bowel cancer screening in the UK, research into treatments for stage IV cancer patients, access to unfunded drugs on the NHS and the financial rights of widows.

Dahlia is joined by Silvia Garcia, keynote speaker and former Global Director of the Institute of Happiness for Coca Cola to discuss how to find happiness.

Silvia shares her research from both her recent work and her role at Coca Cola, to explain the definitions of happiness and why it is a feeling but not a destination.

Dahlia and Silvia discuss the benefits of happiness in relation to productivity, and the need for happiness to be supported by trust and relationships.

Silvia explains the link between the memories we hold and how we see happiness and recommends a 'hack' we can choose each day to improve our happiness and our mindset.

Dahlia and Silvia also discuss the link between happiness and hopefulness and how to adjust your perspective and reframe your view if you are standing in a challenging spot.

Silvia Garcia is a sought-after expert for organizations that want to inspire the audience to build a brighter future while they also make people and business thrive.

Drawing on her decades-long experience advisingleaders in corporate boardrooms and C-suits, Silvia help leaders bring their employees' talent to its best, innovateand achieve high performance fromtheir teams.

As a former seasoned leader for the Coca-Colacompany, Silvia helps organizations navigate and succeed in challenging situations. She shares science-based, tried-and-true strategies for developing the traits of a leader who drives positive change, and whose people are motivatedto work for. A transformational leader,Silvia takes audiences in a real mind-shift beyond strategy and tactics; fostering collaboration, furthering their vision and values, and having a positive impact on their teams and organizations.

Described as "a visionary thinker with a rare empathy" Silvia was the former Coca-Cola Global Director for Marketing and Happiness, and her insights and learning do not leave anyone indifferent. She has devoted her professionallife to meet the best experts and scientists, and to share with others research-based ways to help advance avision of the world as a place wherepeople, business and society thrive.

A world in which the vast majority of people feel connected to others, a world in which people feel safe taking risksand navigating change, a world where people face the future with confidence that together, we can thrive.

Her speeches have been said to change “lives andcompanies”.

During her tenure as Global Coca-Cola Director for Marketing and Happiness, Silvia travelled the world to learn from scientists and businesses which are theconditions for higher happiness and success. She has devoted her life to sharing science-based discoveries to help leaders and organizations create abetter future for people, planet and business. Moreover, Silvia knows how to talk so people listen!Logically, she was behind some of the most inspirational Coca-Cola advertisement campaigns. Under her leadership,collaboration thrived, engagement soared, and innovation grew exponentially.

Finally, when tough problems need to be solved, Silvia helps bring the best out of people and teams. For that reason she was invited to participate in the 2015 Albright Challenge, by MIT University, and on many other projects that need visionary thinkers capable to stimulateinventive, collaborative solutions.

Silvia is known for making audiences realize how they can influence others to do what is best, and how to use emotions to unlock their brain's whole potential, which she described in her first TEDx Talk in 2023.

Her innovative views on business and leadershiphave attracted international attention. From the tech industry to the entertainment industry, from finance to fashion, from Fortune 500 to localbusiness, to the army, Silvia has been invited to meet with a broad array of leaders and organizations in nearly every industry.

Silvia shares her time between NYC and France.

Clothes, confidence and reshaping the future (with guest Karen Martin):

Dahlia is joined by Karen Martin, Editor of the BBC's Global News Podcast and Happy Pod to discuss weight loss injections and reinvention.

Karen talks about how the menopause impacted her identity and why she chose to use weight loss injections to regain a version of who she was - but how it became a moment of reinvention.

Dahlia and Karen discuss how it feels to go through a dramatic weight loss, why Karen wants to break the taboo of the injections and the initial response to her change in weight. They also discuss the joy of getting dressed and how Karen's style changed as she embraced a new version of herself in her 50s.

Curious about mounjaro, food noise and the behind the scenes of weight loss injections - have a listen to one perspective on using the medication.

Karen Martin is the Editor of the BBC’s most listened to international news podcast – the Global News Podcast.

She also edits the weekly Happy Pod and The Newsroom Programme on the BBC World Service.

A former reporter for newspapers, radio and TV, Karen now runs a 24/7 team of journalists covering stories from around the globe.

She’s also the mother of two teenaged daughters, a huge supporter of younger women in their careers and an avid cold water swimmer.

Karen isn’t afraid to stand out in a male dominated workplace, running editorial meetings dressed from head to foot in pink, leopard print or both.

She’s always across the latest news – and the hottest fashion trends.