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The Emma Guns Show

Alex Light | Reinventing herself, navigating the world as a sensitive soul and unlearning toxic diet culture.

The Emma Guns Show

Emma Gunavardhana

Inspiration, Feel-good, Society & Culture, Health, Inspiring, Life Lessons, Empowering, Health & Fitness, Fun, Honest Conversations, Arts, Mental Health, Self Improvement, Deep And Meaningful

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

She's back! Alex Light returns to the podcast and she is, as it to be expected, an absolute joy to talk to and a very special guest indeed.

Now, full disclosure, Alex and I are friends and we are similar in a lot of ways, not least the fact that we can get pretty deep, pretty quickly once we start chatting and that's what happened in this episode.

We talk about Alex's biggest risk, of course, which was to pivot from a content creator who focussed on fashion and beauty into someone who spoke openly about her own experience with an eating disorder and body image issues to now being one of social media's most-followed accounts for sensible non-toxic messaging around food and our bodies.

We spend a lot of time pondering whether it's any coincidence that two people who are both sensitive souls have had trouble with their sense of identity that has spilled over into how they feel about how they look and how they care for themselves.

I loved this conversation with Alex because I truly feel we would have had exactly the same conversation over lunch. It's real, it's raw and it's honest.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I do, I'm a very like black and white kind of thinking person or nothing personality, but

0:13.4

I am, I feel like the older I get the more I do realise that there's beauty I guess

0:20.4

for lack of a better word to be found in the messy area, in the grey area and also in

0:25.7

working it out and processing stuff and I guess changing your mind so because I just thought

0:30.3

I was thought I was defective, like I knew I had these overreactions, I knew I responded

0:35.0

to things much more emotionally and sensitively than other people in my life and I just thought

0:41.0

like I was defective that there was like something wrong with me and you know that I was

0:46.0

just over sensitive and pathetic and I need to get a grip. We never have to touch it again

0:52.9

and I would never have to work this out because working this out feels so hard and so complicated

0:58.9

and I'm like second triple quadruple guessing myself every which way and I'm so confused

1:04.1

and so lost trying to still have this relationship with food because I need it and need to have it.

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