3.3 Dismantling Beauty Standards with Jessica DeFino

Saturn Returns with Caggie

Caggie Dunlop

Education, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement

4.8 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this thought-provoking conversation Caggie is joined by award-winning reporter Jessica Defino, whose work focuses on deconstructing beauty standards and the beauty industry. They discuss how social media has created an unachievable, perfect aesthetic that people are trying to maintain and recreate through surgical procedures, and how the ability to alter our image digitally and physically, has intensified our obsession with beauty and youth. This conversation explores why certain structures benefit from this, and how disempowering it is for the collective, why we need to disconnect value from beauty, and how we can start to have conversations that dismantle the patriarchy and help us step into our power. --- Subscribe to "Saturn Returns" for future episodes, where we explore the transformative impact of Saturn's return with inspiring guests and thought-provoking discussions. Follow Caggie Dunlop on Instagram to stay updated on her personal journey and receive more empowering insights and you can find Saturn Returns on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. Order the Saturn Returns Book. Join our community newsletter here. DO YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF ASKING THE FOLLOWING… Will I ever find my true calling? Why do I struggle with boundaries? How do I know If I am living authentically? Am I happy with the path my life is on? The Saturn Returns Course: A digital e-course specially created to help you build the foundations of your most authentic self. This course is designed to guide you through the key themes that often come up during our Saturn Return. It is a curation of concepts and supportive modalities, intertwined with my own personal experience. Find more information on what to expect from The Saturn Returns Course, here.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Saturn Returns with me Kaggi Dunlop. This is a
0:09.3	podcast that aims to bring clarity during transitional times where there can be confusion and doubt.
0:18.7	If you are attempting to look younger, that is something you are going to do for the rest of your life. There's no product you can use that you're going to use it and be like, okay, I've done it. I'm done with the anti-aging. In this episode of Satamatans, I am joined by award-winning reporter Jessica Dafino.
0:37.0	Jess, who has a degree from Berkeley Music College and Songwriting, mainly writes today about skin care, but not in the way that you might expect.
0:46.0	Jess focuses on dismantling and deconstructing beauty standards and the beauty industry.
0:51.9	She describes herself as pro-skin and anti-product and covers
0:55.4	supportive sustainable skin care based in science and spirituality. Now Jess is all about
1:01.0	real self-care and this episode I hope will empower you because it really empowered me and it will call you to question certain structures and beliefs that may not actually be your own.
1:11.0	She answers so many questions that I've had over the last couple of years
1:14.6	and thoughts that I haven't been able to articulate and I think with social media fueling
1:19.2	our insecurity and this obsession with beauty and youth being at this unachievable level it's a
1:25.3	really important conversation to have so it really opened my eyes to a number of
1:30.4	things and I hope it will do the same for you. But before we speak to
1:34.3	Jess let's check in with our astrological guide Nora. We become more aware of
1:41.4	our mortality and the inevitable truth of aging as we near our 30s,
1:46.2	a time period that coincides with our first session return.
1:49.7	If during our early 20s we've relied on the male gaze or society's norms of beauty, norms internalize
1:55.8	by us as showcased by magazines or by social media influences and ads.
2:00.6	Then during our sad and return we start to question those very norms and how aligned with reality they truly are.
2:07.0	As we become aware of the fallacy of unattainable beauty ideals and a toxic vicious cycle that trying to attain them creates, we slowly
2:16.4	and suddenly, in a true saturnan way, get your opportunity to understand how rigged the
2:22.3	game against real people is.
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