"External validation is not the key to success..." with journalist and author Bryony Gordon

Give Me Strength with Alice Liveing

Alice Liveing

Fitness, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, we are welcoming back to the podcast renowned journalist, author, and broadcaster Bryony Gordon. In this episode, Bryony and Alice discuss Bryony's journey with mental health, recovery from alcoholism, and her advocacy work through her mental health charity, Mental Health Mates. Candidly, Bryony shares her experiences with obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating disorder, and the life-changing impact of exercise on her mental health. Alice and Bryony dive into her journey of self-acceptance, the role of community in recovery, and the empowering act of embracing one's true self. They also touch on body image, societal pressures, and the misconception that happiness is a fixed goal. We would love hear from YOU! Email us at [email protected] Listen by clicking ‘Play’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever it is you’re listening now. Make sure to Subscribe or Follow, Rate and Review to help others find the podcast. Give Me Strength is an Insanity Studios Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to this week's episode. My guest today is Bryony Gordon, who is a renowned journalist, author, and broadcaster, as well as founder of the mental health charity Mental Health Makes.
0:20.0	Having been on the podcast a number of years ago, I am so excited to have
0:24.0	Bryny back on the podcast to ask what has changed since we last spoke.
0:28.5	Welcome Bryning, how are you wearing a fabulous dress?
0:31.5	I'm all the better for being here with you Alice. I'm like a ray of sunshine.
0:36.7	Oh thank you so much now look I'm I'm really excited to have you on for the second time.
0:40.6	When we first spoke I was baby Alice in her very first
0:43.7	podcast journey and I feel like we've come on so far and when was that? It was like I
0:47.9	want to say 2018 2019 which to me feels like a lifetime ago, before COVID.
0:54.0	B.C.
0:55.0	Yeah, which we've just been talking about.
0:57.0	So look, I think one of the things that would be important for us to do is a little whistle
1:01.1	top stop tour is anyone who's not familiar with you who maybe
1:04.0	didn't listen to that first episode. If you're comfortable doing a bit of a
1:07.1	like a kind of mental health timeline of where you were then and where you now
1:12.1	find yourself and just a little bit of kind of backstory of who you are and
1:15.6	what you do.
1:16.6	Okay yeah so I'm briny I'm an alcoholic but it's okay because I haven't had a
1:21.1	drink for like seven years or something and I am a writer and
1:27.0	mental health campaigner. I write about my own experiences so when I last came on I probably just run the
1:35.3	marathon in my underwear yes only my underwear to show their exercises for
1:39.6	everyone no matter what their shape or size is which is kind of something I'm really passionate about, because exercise has been transformative for my mental health.
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