Eating Disorder Recovery: The Realities of Repairing Your Relationship With Food & Learning To Like Yourself with Alex Light

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🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Alex Light is a body confidence and anti-diet influencer who has amassed over 300,000 followers on her Instagram platform. Alex shares the realities behind edited social media posts and empowers women to feel good about their bodies. After recovering from multiple eating disorders, Alex felt inclined to share her story in hopes of helping others and fighting back against toxic diet culture. In this episode, Victoria and Alex dive into their recovery journeys, detailing the many ups and downs they've faced to rebuild their relationships with food and themselves. This conversation is raw and honest, so please keep in mind this could be triggering for anyone who has experienced an eating disorder.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	The only narratives I consumed are of eating disorders.
0:06.5	Where girl gets ill, girl seeks help, girl gets better and gets on with the rest of her life.
0:12.1	And it would just wasn't the case for me and I really, really struggled.
0:21.1	Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former D.O.N.
0:25.4	athlete and mental health and body image advocate.
0:28.3	Everyone's day, I'll be bringing you awesome guests, weekly inspiration and the
0:32.9	realest conversations around everything and anything. Now let's get real.
0:44.6	Welcome back to RealPod everybody. I hope you are ready to really think today and contemplate
0:52.4	a lot of things because I feel like the conversation you're about to listen to
0:56.4	was so special not only because it was like most of my interviews where you know we hear
1:01.8	about the guest and we discuss their background but specifically today we really just kind of
1:07.6	let ourselves be present and started to talk about some of the things that I think a lot of us
1:13.6	struggle with if we've recovered from an eating disorder or had past issues with food such as,
1:19.2	you know, are there still things that bother you or trigger you when you talk about food or you
1:24.4	approach food in your body? Are there things that you can't remember or don't like to think about
1:29.4	because it was just such a dark or hard time for you and that's kind of the conversation we're
1:34.4	going to get into today and it really was powerful for me to have. I really enjoyed it and I'm so
1:39.2	excited for you guys to hear it today. I just want to offer up a warning just in case anyone might
1:43.5	be triggered by this episode that my guests and I are going to be diving into eating disorder and
1:47.9	eating disorder recovery. Speaking of our guest, she is the incredible Alex Light who is a body
1:54.0	confidence and anti-diet influencer. She has a mast over 300,000 followers on her Instagram platform.
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