Ben Smith On Overcoming His Eating Disorders & How To Be Proactive With Your Mental Health
Real Pod
Dear Media
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Ben Smith is an Army Ranger Veteran, Personal Trainer, and Eating Disorder/Mental Health Advocate. This past year Ben captured our hearts after he opened up about his eating disorder, depression and suicide attempts on National television. In this episode, Ben dives into these topics and gets more vulnerable than ever! He shares why he loved and then left the Army, why eating disorder recovery is not linear, and talks about the importance of friends/family and community. After listening to this you just might find that Ben is the best friend, big brother and boyfriend we all wish we had! ;)
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| 0:30.1 | just a bit of discomfort. I am so looking forward to making your weeks just a little bit weirder. |
| 0:36.9 | I talk about being in recovery and not recovered from any of those things. I would be lying if I |
| 0:42.4 | said that not literally every day there's a feeling of that experience. There's a feeling of like, |
| 0:47.2 | oh my god, today could be the day that I relapsed into some sort of eating disorder thing. |
| 0:51.3 | Or today is the day that I'm going to be depressed, but having awareness centered around my work |
| 0:55.9 | and therapy and knowing how to like, recognize and then move through those feelings has been |
| 1:01.8 | the greatest gift I've ever given myself. Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria |
| 1:11.8 | Garrick, former D.O.N. athlete and mental health and body image advocate. Every Wednesday, |
| 1:16.8 | I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly inspiration and the realest conversations around |
| 1:22.4 | everything and anything. Now let's get real. Welcome back to RealPod, everybody. I know, I know. This |
| 1:33.9 | is an exciting one. I'm sure you saw the name. Maybe you saw the promo on the RealPod Instagram |
| 1:40.0 | at RealPod and you were like, wait, Ben Smith, aka literally America's heartthrob. We all fell in |
| 1:45.7 | love with him on national television this past year. And yes, that is including my mom. Hi mom, |
| 1:51.1 | I know you're excited for this one. And Ben captured our hearts on a show which I shall not name for |
| 1:57.2 | the good reasons, but not just for his charm and obvious good looks, but for his personality, |
| 2:03.7 | his vulnerability and the way he wore his heart on his sleeve and opened up about his past eating |
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