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Embracing My Story
It’s always intriguing hearing someone else’s life story, their chain of events, and how things played out to bring them to where they are right now. My mom is a perfect example of a fascinating life story. She grew up in Moscow in the last three decades of the 20th...
Why I Quit Bikini Competitions
I'm sharing my story about why I quit bikini competitions to shine light on the dark side of the fitness industry. It breaks my heart that young girls are looking up to fitness models on Instagram without a single clue about how destructive that type of lifestyle can...
Just Keep Swimming
At a mere three years old, I began to believe I am not worthy. "I'm not good enough." "This is my fault." "Nothing I do will bring my parents back together." At the brink of my parents’ divorce, the truth of the last statement intensified. Rather than seeing the...
Hi, I’m Mary and after recovering from an eating disorder and healing my body, mind, and spirit, I started my online platform Mary’s Cup of Tea, to inspire women to embrace their bodies and love themselves unconditionally. Now, I travel to beautiful places hosting my worldwide self-love retreats while sharing my heart with you through my writings, videos, and online courses.
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Hi, I’m Mary and after recovering from an eating disorder and healing my body, mind, and spirit, I started my online platform Mary’s Cup of Tea, to inspire women to embrace their bodies and love themselves unconditionally. Now, I travel to beautiful places hosting my worldwide self-love retreats while sharing my heart with you through my writings, videos, and online courses.
Let’s Get Social!
BTS of Being a Social Media Influencer with Chelsea Culbertson
In this episode we talk with Chelsea Culbertson (@choosingchelsea on Instagram) about what it’s like being a social media influencer. Chelsea shares how she uses her social media platform for good and creates healthy boundaries between consuming and creating on...
How to Stop Dieting, Restricting, and Binge Eating for Good
>>> Click here to listen on iTunes! >>> Click here to listen on Spotify! Diet culture is a vicious enemy that makes you believe that something is wrong with YOU if you don’t successfully lose weight. Being stuck in the diet cycle makes you spend...
How to be Healthy without Dieting
Today’s episode is a little different, a turning of the tables where Mary gets interviewed on someone else’s podcast! Mary talks about her experience with binge eating, how she went viral on Instagram, and how to balance health with self love. Mary also shares how she...
Stop Overthinking, Embrace Perfectionism, & Let Creativity Heal You with Meg Rosko
This week Mary interviews her dear friend Meg Rosko (@nutmegandhoneybee). Over the past two years, Meg has dedicated her life to cultivating purpose and joy through the healing nature of art and community. Meg vulnerably shares how she started tapping into her...
Self Love Wallpapers- Free Self Love Backgrounds
Here are some self love wallpapers to inspire you to love yourself every time you look at your phone! Just right click to save the image to your camera roll and set it as your phone background! These are sized for most iPhone and Android phones, but you may have to...
From ED Recovery to Multi 6-Figure CEO with Rachel Spencer
In this episode, Mary is joined by Rachel Spencer to talk about how building your own business and investing in yourself can help you build confidence and realize how incredibly powerful you are, BEYOND your struggles. Rachel Spencer is a Business Coach and self-love...
How to Feel Sexy and Confident in the Bedroom
When you feel good in your body and embrace your sexual side, you show up in a more empowered, confident way. Welcome to this special “V-Day” edition of Tea Time with Mary. In this episode, Mary discusses ways that have personally helped her to be more confident in...
22 Things I Learned in 22 Years
This is the birthday episode!! Mary shares with you life lessons she had to learn the hard way in her past 22 years on this earth. She talks about everything from sex, hair removal, and yeast infections, to divorce and relationships, to self love and body image. Here...
Dealing with Weight Gain, Addressing Trauma, and Feminism with Jessica Demasi
This week Mary talks with Jessica Demasi, a Certified Eating Psychology Coach specializing in Functional Endocrinology and creator of whollyhealed.com. Jessica started whollyhealed.com due to a lack of integrative care when it comes to healing eating disorders. In...
How to Fall in Love with Yourself
Girl, you deserve to fall in love with yourself. But “we often think of self love as a noun…” a thing we want more of. “In reality, love is a verb…” something inside of us and something that we do; not something we possess. In this episode, Mary talks about the...
