How Women's Body Image is Plagued by "Beauty Sickness" and How to Maybe Heal w/ Dr. Renee Engeln

Mary's Cup of Tea: the Self Love Podcast for Women

Mary Jelkovsky

Body-image, Education, Relationships, Self Compassion, Society & Culture, Self Love For Women, Self Love, Self-improvement, Advice For Women, Women's Health, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Love Yourself, Self Worth, Self-love, Body Image

4.9 • 745 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Our culture is OBSESSED with female bodies and their appearance making us all “beauty sick.” From constricting clothes to anti-aging skincare products, beauty culture eats up our precious time, money, and energy. This is an eye-opening and deeply-relatable discussion with Dr. Renee Engeln about “beauty sickness,” the disease that plagues so many women (to no fault of their own) and destroys our body image. You will learn about... - what the research shows about beauty culture and objectification of women - the performative aspects of femininity - the psychological effects of aging in a beauty-obsessed society - how we can fight off beauty sickness both individually and collectively Renee Engeln, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, is the author of Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women. Her lab (The Body and Media Lab, a.k.a. “BAM”) conducts research exploring issues surrounding women’s body images, with a particular emphasis on cultural practices that create or enforce the frequently contentious relationship women have with their bodies. The research, which has appeared in numerous academic journals, focuses on Objectification Theory, Fat Talk, and Idealized Media Images. She is regularly interviewed by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, BBC, the Huffington Post, and other national media. Her TEDx talk has over 800,000 views on YouTube. Remember: Though we won’t heal from beauty sickness overnight, we have the power to minimize how much we participate in it. Get Dr. Renee’s book, Beauty Sick: https://amzn.to/4c67da9 Learn more about Dr. Renee’s Body and Media Lab: http://bodyandmedia.com Watch Dr. Renee’s TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XsokRPV_Y And if you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and share it on social media! Make sure to tag @maryspodcast and @beauty_sick Mentioned In This Episode... Ep. 18, Mary’s first interview with Dr. Renee: https://open.spotify.com/episode/155JFBTBxSGCCA2UMK12qk?si=gWFYNVAjQxu2S2J8j69Z-w

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the Self-Love Podcast for Women. I'm your host, Mary Jolkovsky, an author, speaker, an all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.
0:18.3	Hello, self-lover. Before we dive into today's podcast episode, I want to make sure you know about my two books on self-love.
0:25.8	If you're struggling with body image or self-acceptance, then I highly recommend you check out my first book, The Gift of Self-Love.
0:32.7	It's a comprehensive workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to love who you are.
0:39.2	Thousands of people have this book and the five-star reviews are so amazing. They give me so much
0:44.4	life. So I hope that this is something that can help you too. You can get it wherever books are
0:48.9	sold by searching for the gift of self-love or go to my website, maryscup of tea.com slash book.
0:56.0	After releasing the gift of self-love and reading all your positive feedback, I realized
1:00.1	that we really needed something to keep us going every single day. So not a deep dive workbook,
1:05.7	but maybe like a micro dose of self-love in your daily life, which is why I wrote 100 days of self-love.
1:12.6	It's a guided journal with, you guessed it, 100 prompts that cover so many areas of life,
1:17.8	including body, identity, purpose, emotions, mindset, relationships, and more.
1:23.9	So you can really think of it as a metaphorical multivitamin, something to keep you going,
1:28.6	or as I like to say, growing on your self-love journey. You can get this journal wherever books are
1:33.5	sold as well by searching for 100 days of self-love or go to mary's cup of tea.com slash journal.
1:39.5	It's my mission to share all the self-love tea with you. So I hope that both my books and this podcast can do
1:45.1	just that. You know how teachers or therapists aren't supposed to have a favorite, but you still
1:56.7	ask your teacher or therapist if you're their favorite. Maybe this is just something that I do,
2:03.3	but I think podcasting is similar that I'm not supposed to have like a favorite guest,
2:09.3	but there are definitely guests that you naturally connect with more than others and
2:15.5	conversations that are just so fulfilling in many
2:19.6	different regards, not just professionally proud of what we're recording, but just personally
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