Episode 412: Body Image Resilience with Dr. Lexie Kite and Dr. Lindsay Kite

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week, twin sisters Dr. Lexie Kite and Dr. Lindsay Kite join me for a discussion on body image resilience. As women, we've been conditioned to care about how we look and as such, become fixated on our beauty and body. And for many women, only when we feel we have conformed, do we feel confident. In addition to informing us how to step into body image resilience and away from body shame, Lexie and Lindsay offer their insight about topics such as self-objectification, body shame, and how internalized misogyny is central to our self-perceptions. “Body image resilience provides the opportunity to see the trigger as a stepping stone instead of a burden you carry around the rest of your life and cope in the same ways you’ve always had.” Dr. Lexie Kite Lexie and Lindsay received their PhDs from the University of Utah. Their academic research on media studies and body image inspired them to establish the non-profit Beauty Redefined in 2009 (while concluding their co-written master’s thesis and beginning their doctoral research) to help women recognize and reject harmful messages about their bodies, worth, and potential, and redefine the meaning and value of beauty in their lives. In this episode you’ll hear: Lexie and Lindsay’s book, More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament, takes on the topics of body image positivity and a reclamation of a woman's body. They share what inspired them to write this book. (6:30) Body image resilience: what it is and why it is important for women to work to raise theirs. (8:35) Why it is important to normalize the diversity of all bodies. (28:25) Many of us are disordered eaters and we don’t know it because it has been normalized in our culture. (36:12) We can prove the worst fears about ourselves are wrong. (39:44) The first step towards body image resilience includes taking inventory of your environment. (51:41) http://andreaowen.com/412 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Body image resilience. It's different than anything else you'll see out there because it gives
0:34.7	people the hope to see the shame and the pain that has that has taken
0:40.3	over so much of their lives to be able to see it and call it out and then use those experiences
0:46.8	the the weight loss, the weight gain, the people making comments about your body,
0:51.5	the sexual harassment and abuse, whatever it is, to use it to become
0:56.4	stronger and more compassionate, to use it as this kind of disruption to make a better choice
1:02.5	that serves you better than the harmful coping mechanisms most of us turn to when we feel
1:07.6	body shame.
1:10.5	You're listening to Make Some Noise Podcast episode number 412 with guests, Lexi and Lindsay
1:15.9	Kite.
1:20.4	Welcome to Make Some Noise Podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:32.1	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007,
1:37.4	an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22 countries.
1:46.5	Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable confidence, master resilience, and make some noise
1:52.1	in your life. You ready? Let's go. Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad that you are here. I'm recording this as I have just come home from a conference. My first conference in two years. Yeah, two years since the pandemic and whoa I'm tired.
2:19.4	The socializing really war me out.
2:22.7	It's very interesting how that worked.
2:26.2	And if any of you have done anything in person that was with a lot of people, maybe it was a party or a wedding that you attended where it was meeting new people and
2:34.8	the small talk and all of that. It was exhausting. I had to take a lot of breaks and have a lot of
2:40.8	downtime. So I'm still kind of in that place of, wow, I need to rest my brain. I need to rest my
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