091 - Breaking Free From Unrealistic Beauty Standards With @AlexLight_Ldn

The Dear Body Podcast

Jessi Jean

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.7 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: In this episode I am joined by body confidence & self-acceptance influencer, Alex Light. She is truly helping women break down all the messages that society has pushed on us making us believe in an unrealistic beauty standard. Alex shares her struggle with food and body as well as her top tips to breaking free from diet culture. We dig into some tough questions like, “Is it okay to be anti diet culture and still want to lose weight?” This episode will open your eyes and your heart, I hope you find it encouraging! Time stamps: 3:00- Alex shares how she got into the body confidence space 4:15- Alex shares how she was struggling with food and body behind the scenes 5:20- How isolating eating disorders and body image struggles can be, it can feel like a toxic secret best friend 9:00- The skewed perspective that social media creates 10:30- Top tips for breaking free from diet culture 13:00- Alex shares how part of her healing journey was gaining weight and how she was able to navigate this 16:30- Jessi and Alex both share how they felt like they would just endlessly gain weight but how that's not actually what happened 19:00- How food starts to lose its magic and allure after you give yourself permission to eat 20:00- Pop culture and unrealistic beauty standards 26:00- What other industry would we buy into that offers a 5% success rate? 29:30- What to do when others are commenting on you and your body? 34:00- Setting boundaries and what that looks like in Alex’s life 35:00- Is it ok to be anti diet culture and want to lose weight? Where is the line? Links: Alex’s Instagram Alex’s Podcast Books Alex Recommends: Body Posi Power Just Eat it By Laura Thomas My body is not an apology by Sonya Click here to get your free Food Freedom Holiday Guide! Update** We now offer something EVEN better than the Morning Routine Challenge. Sign up for Jessi’s VIP email list to receive exclusive content: PDF’s, tips, videos & more all designed to bring you closer to mental freedom with food! Click here to sign up! Join me for The Food Freedom Online Program. This class is for those who know they want to improve their relationship with food and their body, but are afraid of spiraling out-of-control and want a proven, step-by-step system to go from feeling crazy around food to normal again! You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it. If you’re ready to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome to The Dear Body Podcast! Our mission is to help driven women have an easy and effortless relationship with food and unshakeable self-confidence in their own body. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode & learn more about us here!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. This is Jesse Jean and you're listening to the Dear Body Podcast.
0:07.6	I spent 10 years stuck in the diet binge cycles hating my body and envying women who seem to have it all because I never felt enough.
0:15.9	And what I discovered in my journey to food freedom, radical self-love, and becoming an eating psychology coach is this.
0:22.5	You can either live your life at war with your mind or learn to work in sync with it.
0:27.8	And that is what this podcast is all about.
0:31.0	We get real, we get raw, and we hold nothing back.
0:35.6	So if you're ready to learn how to work in sync with your mind and evolve your life, welcome
0:40.8	to the show.
0:45.5	Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
0:51.3	I'm really, really excited because I think today's guest is going to be so
0:55.3	incredibly inspiring for you. Her name is Alex Light, and she's a body confidence and self-acceptance
1:00.9	influencer, heling from London, England. And after struggling from various eating disorders,
1:05.7	Alex's virtual platform transformed from a beauty and flash in blog into a glimpse of her personal struggles. Throughout
1:12.9	her journey on social media, Alex has gained an expansive insight into the reality behind
1:18.1	eating disorders, as well as weight stigma and diet culture. After a long and arduous journey,
1:23.7	Alex is dedicated to providing a safe space for anyone in the grips of an eating
1:28.1	disorder or bad body image. Now, Alex is ardently anti-diette. She believes that cultural and
1:34.3	societal pressures are the root of body image issues. Therefore, she's incredibly passionate
1:38.9	about enacting change through her body confidence message. Alex also loves beauty and shares her passion through
1:45.4	Instagram stories. She also has created a diverse Facebook community where members share
1:50.8	their personal stories without judgment and receive unconditional support. To top it all off,
1:56.5	her new podcast, The Light Show, features a series of brave guests and explores their personal body image
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