[Body Talk] Maintaining a PERFECT IMAGE: Lia Parisyan talks external pressures, emotional exhaustion, and facing bathing suit fears head-on
Love & Learn
Jessica Flint
4.8 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"There's a lot of pressure in my industry and tech to look a certain way, to dress a certain way, to talk a certain way, to behave a certain way."
Lia Parisyan felt immense pressure to conform to the perceived ideals of her highly competitive tech industry and diverse cultural background. Observing successful figures around her, she believed that mirroring their appearance, behavior, and lifestyle was essential to her own achievements.
Join us for this enlivening and enlightening episode of "Body Talk" with Lia Parisyan where we cover"
🇦🇲 Cultural Complexity & Beauty Ideals: Lia opens up about her cultural background - blending French, Armenian, and Arabic influences - and how it created a web of conflicting beauty standards. She shares her struggles with body image amidst these diverse ideals.
👙 Journey to Confidence: Lia talks candidly about her efforts to push past swimsuit anxiety and aims to wear a 2-piece bathing suit by summer’s end. Her story is a courageous testament to confronting fears and embracing vulnerability.
🔗 Food & Body Image Link: The conversation touches on the role food played in Lia's body image struggles, starting with childhood experiences of restrictive eating, and how these behaviors were tied to feelings of insecurity and rejection.
👯♀️ Community Support: We explore the healing power of supportive communities like the Courage Club. Lia emphasizes how transformative it is find a community that uplifts and understands you when you're on a journey towards self-acceptance and recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm with Leah Prisian. |
| 0:04.0 | Now, Leah is someone I've come to know over the past few months as she was a member of our Body Freedom Program |
| 0:13.0 | and even went dating far back into being a listener of the show, which we didn't actually have a physical connection. |
| 0:19.0 | But since getting to know Leah, I've discovered |
| 0:20.9 | that she's like a marketing maven, has been written up as a power woman in the marketing world, |
| 0:27.6 | and just shows so much creative abilities. And I have really thoroughly got to enjoy her. |
| 0:37.3 | You even connected this spring in Brooklyn. |
| 0:40.1 | So it's just been really great to get to know Leah on a more personal level. |
| 0:43.8 | So without further ado, welcome Leah. |
| 0:46.8 | So happy to have you here with us to talk, Badi. |
| 0:49.6 | Thanks for having me, Jessica. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm a huge fan. |
| 0:52.3 | I've been listening for years and have had so much |
| 0:55.6 | value and connection through the Courage Club. So I'm so happy that you have these resources |
| 1:02.8 | for people. Can you like go back to when you first discovered the Rear Heavy Warrior show? |
| 1:08.2 | Like that was when I was doing the podcast way back in the day. |
| 1:11.2 | I mean, I started back in 2014. Do you remember, like, where you're at your life at that? I mean, |
| 1:15.0 | that was like a decade ago. Oh, yeah. I was not in a good place. Like, I was climbing the corporate |
| 1:21.0 | ladder. I was very much deep into the throes of my eating disorder, wanting to break free. So you could say I was |
| 1:31.8 | a straddler at that point. The harm reduction, that was sort of managed, but I wasn't really |
| 1:38.0 | thriving and it just weighed on me heavily. And I was Googling. I was looking up resources. I didn't know and I came across it |
| 1:46.3 | and I was like, let me give this a listen. And I was hooked. It took one episode and I just learned |
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