EP 59 Getting Real with Yourself, Online Criticism, and Recovery from Abuse and Eating Disorders | with Mik Zazon
EMBody Radio
Emily Duncan
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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TRIGGER WARNING FOR THIS EPISODE: We discuss eating disorders, physically/emotionally abusive relationships, PTSD, and mental illness in this episode, so please be aware of that before listening.
Today's guest is, to put it simply, a warrior. Mik Zazon has been through so much for such a young person, and she's all about owning her story and using it to help others. Today's episode covers so many topics, including:
-Physical trauma from sports that left her without college scholarships and without an identity,
-What happened when she first started dieting, particularly yo-yo dieting,
-Going through an emotionally and physically abusive relationship
-Identifying abusive/unhealthy relationships
-Learning to depend entirely on herself as a form of healing
-Dealing with eating disorders, mental health, PTSD, and so much more,
-The root of your problems,
-Her experience being caught photoshopping her Instagram pictures and the realization that happened afterward that prompted her to truly get the help she needed,
-Cultivating TRUE self love,
-Tips for self care,
-Handling criticism online with grace and confidence,
-Transitioning from hardcore fitness/powerlifting to a more intuitive approach,
-... So much more!
Mik is a truly powerful woman doing amazing things for women everywhere.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Embody Radio. I'm your host Emily Duncan, |
| 0:03.3 | Kinesiology major, fitness social media influencer, coach, and bikini competitor. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show I'm here to spread scientific knowledge on the topics of |
| 0:10.8 | strength training, nutrition, health, fitness, and physique sports, |
| 0:14.0 | while also helping you grow stronger as an individual from the inside out. |
| 0:18.0 | In each episode, you'll hear from myself and some of the top professionals in the fitness and health industry. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's dive in so you can start embodying your strength. and some of the top professionals in the fitness and health industry. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's dive in so you can start embodying your strongest, smartest, most empowered self. |
| 0:28.0 | What's up you guys? |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to Embody Radio. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host Emily Duncan or M Dunk as most of you probably |
| 0:35.2 | know me by. So first and foremost I tend to record my podcast intros literally the day |
| 0:41.1 | before the podcast gets published just because that's how I do things. |
| 0:46.0 | So it is Wednesday the 22nd and for those of you that follow me on Instagram which my Instagram is |
| 0:50.9 | at M underscore dunk so E M M underscore the UNC if you did not know. |
| 0:55.9 | But for those to be that do follow me on Instagram, you know that I just had surgery yesterday. |
| 1:00.7 | So yesterday I had my breast implants taken out. I had them for about two years and it turns |
| 1:06.6 | out I was impacted by what is known as breast implant illness. It's not recognized by the medical community yet, |
| 1:13.7 | but it is something that thousands and thousands of women have been affected by |
| 1:16.7 | that have breast implants. You know, not everyone is negatively affected by them, but |
| 1:20.5 | there's definitely a lot of women that are and I was one of them. |
| 1:23.6 | So yeah I had surgery yesterday, I had my implants taken out and you guys have been so, so, so loving and |
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