8.10 Cultivating Compassion: Reclaiming Self Love with Alex Light

Saturn Returns with Caggie

Caggie Dunlop

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

4.8 • 892 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m delighted to be joined by Alex Light, a body confidence advocate, journalist, chart-topping podcast host and founder of Light LDN. Alex started her career in magazine journalism where she wrote about celebrities, fashion and beauty. Her Instagram was a space for her to share her love for these topics but whilst it appeared she was #livingherbestlife, Alex was actually battling an eating disorder. Now, she has successfully created a platform that encourages body positivity and champions women’s unfiltered bodies. At 26, Alex began using her social platform to document her recovery and was astounded at the amount of people who resonated with her story. We discuss the relationship Alex has with her body and the steps she took to mend and cultivate what was one of the biggest tormentors in her life. Alex is on a mission to expose unrealistic beauty standards and diet culture to help others combat their own feelings of shame and self-loathing. Alex deconstructs some of the messaging that has permeated into our collective psyche from being a young woman and how diet culture is a tool of the patriarchy. She shares the importance of recognising and detangling those beliefs whilst also encouraging us to commit to refraining from commenting on people's looks, regardless of the intention. Saturn can bring change and awakening in mind, body and soul. Alex discusses how this contentment came with age, coinciding with her Saturn Return. Alex also shares how she transformed her internal critic into self-compassion in order to reach that space of contentment within herself. She takes us on her own path of healing whilst delving deep into the emotions that have come up for her during this time of self-reflection. --- 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 you can find Saturn Returns on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. Order the Saturn Returns Book. Join our community newsletter here. Find all things Saturn Returns, offerings and more here.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Saturn Returns with me Kaggy Danlop.
0:05.0	This is a podcast that aims to bring clarity during transitional times where there can be confusion and doubt.
0:12.0	This week I wanted to hear from another member of the
0:16.4	Saturn Returns community and so here is little note from Hannah. I'm Hannah from
0:22.1	London and I came across the Saturn Return podcast at the start of
0:26.1	2020 just as we were going into lockdown. I used to listen to it on my walks and I
0:31.6	had actually just gone through my Saturn Return. I was 29 at the time so it all made a lot of sense to me.
0:37.0	I had quit a really stressful job in a really stressful time and that I wasn't aligned to and once I listened to the podcast I realized what was happening which was really comforting and
0:47.3	This year I actually had the chance to go on the Saturn return retreat in Zakipos in Greece
0:55.8	Which was so amazing. It was the most beautiful setting. There was six of us and then Kaggis team and it was just beautiful. We did journaling, we had a lot of ritual, some workshops with
1:05.1	Kaggi and I got to know some really great women and got to know more of Kaggi and it's just
1:10.8	a beautiful community that I feel really lucky to be a part of and I will continue to be.
1:18.8	We've been taught for so long to not love our bodies, to actively hate our bodies and do what we can to fix them.
1:25.6	And you're just setting another standard for yourself that ultimately you're going to feel like you're
1:30.0	fating again. So I think that's a big part of the reason that people often struggle
1:35.5	with body positivity because it just feels so far-fetched and so far removed from
1:39.9	where they're at. Today I am joined by Alex Light, a body positivity advocate, journalist, chart-topping
1:48.7	podcast host and founder of Light London.
1:52.7	After battling with eating disorders in her earlier life, Alex has successfully crafted and
1:58.0	created a platform that encourages body positivity and champions women's unfiltered bodies. I wanted to have her on the show
2:06.0	because it was a big part of my own Saturn Returns journey, sort of making peace with my relationship with my body and I know that it's something that a lot of
2:16.3	people struggle with navigating I'd say particularly women and we're constantly
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