Episode 050: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall

At Last She Said It

Cynthia Winward

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Body image is complicated for many women, but for Latter-day Saints, it can feel particularly fraught. Our approaches to teaching about modesty and sexuality, coupled with a strong cultural ideal surrounding women's roles, can add up to impossible expectations with damaging results. For this conversation, Susan and Cynthia are joined by Hannah Hinckley and Jessica Nielson, who share experiences and messaging they internalized growing up in the Church, and how it impacted them. It's a discussion about reclaiming our bodies—and our thinking about them.

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0:00.0	Welcome to At Last She Said It, a podcast where women of faith come together to
0:07.0	acknowledge that it's complicated and support each other while we figure it out.
0:17.0	Welcome to today's podcast. I am Cynthia Wynward and it's just me recording a quick intro
0:21.0	before we jump into today's episode. We are calling this episode
0:24.8	Mirror Mirror on the Wall. Two of our biggest episodes that have sparked probably more
0:31.5	discussion from listeners than any other episodes on our social media accounts,
0:36.0	where our two episodes discussing modesty culture, episode 27, it's not about the close,
0:42.2	and then episode 37 if it's not about the clothes and then episode 37 if it's not about the clothes and
0:45.3	what's it about. On this episode we wanted to continue that conversation but
0:49.7	with two friends Hannah and Jessica to get their real life lived experiences as Latter-day Saint
0:56.0	women on this really sensitive and often controversial topic.
1:01.5	When women see their bodies through the lens of the church, well, it can get complicated.
1:06.0	Susan is going to start us out first with a 20 minute conversation with Hannah,
1:11.0	and then I will be jumping in to speak with Jessica.
1:14.0	This is a topic we keep circling back to because it is one that is so complex
1:18.7	and so difficult for women in our church. I really don't know a single woman who doesn't have a story to tell
1:25.0	or ten if we're being honest about this intersection between body image,
1:29.7	modesty, what is beauty, how it affects our spiritual and even our physical health, and how we ultimately
1:37.0	see ourselves and how we see the girls and women in our lives.
1:41.8	We hope you enjoy this episode.
1:44.0	I'm here with my daughter.
1:47.0	I'm here with my daughter Hannah Hinckley and some of the listeners who have been
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