20. Body Image, Diet Culture, and Female Athletics | Bethany Hamilton
The Freely Rooted Podcast
Kori Meloy and Fallon Lee
5 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Bethany Hamilton is a professional surfer who was born & raised in Hawai'i, and she resides there now with her husband and three sons. After losing her entire left arm in a shark attack as a young teenager, Bethany shocked the world by not only continuing her surf career, but taking down world champions along the way. Outside of her surf career, Bethany developed a passion for health in her teenage years, and that has evolved over time through her own personal wellness journey, which has included diving into the world of metabolic health & healing!
Join us as we sit down & discuss the following:
- Bethany's story & health journey
- Bethany's intro to metabolic health
- Diet culture & food fear
- Body image & comparison
- Body consciousness in athletics
- How athletes can succumb to under-eating
- The outside doesn't always reflect internal health
- Simply eating enough can radicalize your energy levels
- How Bethany's wellness has transformed after focusing on her metabolism
- Eating organic, real food wasn't enough for Bethany- she needed bioavailable nutrition
- Nutrients should come from food first
- Healing is a constant journey
- Being grateful for your body now while covering yourself with grace
- How Bethany is more resilient now than ever
*Not medical advice. This podcast & episode are for inspirational + educational purposes only*
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| 0:00.0 | We are our greatest advocates and that's where the whole pro-metabolic movement has really inspired me is just that we can help ourselves. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome back to the freely rooted podcast. |
| 0:19.2 | My name is Corey and my co-host, |
| 0:21.0 | Fallon and I created this podcast and platform to inspire and educate women on their physiology and their biological design and how tuning into that design and living and eating and moving in a way that honors it |
| 0:34.7 | is a way that we can actually embrace all that we were meant to be. |
| 0:38.7 | We believe that our bodies were innately designed |
| 0:41.7 | with the ability to heal heal and Fallon and I have |
| 0:44.3 | reversed chronic disease and autoimmune disorders when we simplified our |
| 0:48.2 | wellness journey and stepped back into our God-given design to do so. |
| 0:52.7 | It's not necessarily about doing more, more, more. |
| 0:55.5 | Sometimes it's about simplifying and doing less |
| 0:58.1 | and learning what your body actually needs. |
| 1:01.1 | We love bringing guests on here that are also doing this in their own way and we had the pleasure of connecting with ProSfer Bethany Hamilton a few months ago. Valen actually texted me one day and was like, um, hey, I just realized that Bethany Hamilton is following both you and |
| 1:15.0 | me on Instagram and I was like, wait, what? So we both got connected with her and realized that she |
| 1:19.9 | had been on her own metabolic health journey after the crash and burn that motherhood |
| 1:24.4 | often brings when we are not in a state of rich nourishment that was obviously |
| 1:29.4 | both myself and Fallon stories as well and thousands of you guys listening can relate to that. So we got to sit down and talk |
| 1:36.1 | about that with Bethany, but we were specifically interested in the topic of female athletics, |
| 1:41.3 | body consciousness, and just the diet culture messages that a lot of young women are listening to today. |
| 1:46.7 | So we wanted to bring Bethany on to hear about her experience navigating through all of that as a growing young woman |
| 1:52.5 | and especially one that is of a lot of influence to others. |
| 1:56.7 | And I think these conversations are not only |
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