Life-Saving Bathroom Swaps with Dr. G | Redefining Body Image with Dr. Lexie Kite | Heal Thy Self with Dr. G Episode #223

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Knowledge Bomb: How many products in your bathroom may contain carcinogenic chemicals? Dr. G runs down the list of common chemicals found in familiar self-care products that could be harboring toxins potentially contributing to sickness over time. - What to look for in your self-care products - The Toxic Substances Control 1976 - A large majority of chemicals are unregulated - bringing more awareness around chemical exposures - The danger of cumulative exposure - Which ingredients to avoid - Fragrances - Phthalates - Heavy Metals - Heavy Metal testing - Parabens - PFAs - Styrene - Titanium Dioxide - The importance of Packaging - Empowerment not fear - Environmental Working Group Guest Segment: Dr. Lexie Kite and her twin sister Lindsay Kite are best-selling authors of “More Than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament,” and international speakers teaching about body image, beauty ideals and misrepresentation of women in media. They are co-directors of the non-profit Beauty Redefined. Lexie joins the show to discuss how our negative view of our own bodies is affecting our ability to truly experience life to the fullest, and preventing us from being our healthiest selves. - Introducing Lexie Kite - Body Confidence - Is the body-positivity movement helpful, harmful or somewhere in between - Beauty as the highest form of value is flawed - Knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks - Girls and Women and self-esteem - Boys and Men and where they derive their worth - Women being defined by their bodies - How long has this problem existed for women? - Women and media - The anti-aging industry - How early are girls being exposed to these ideals? - Sexism in children’s media - Femininity as work - Self-objectification - The Subject & The Object - What is a young teen experiencing? - Teenagers and social media - The Beauty industry - Changing Beauty ideals - A new way of being - Body Image Resilience - How to connect with resilience - Identify the source of the shame - Disruptions as an opportunity to change - Getting back into your body in tough moments - Your body is an instrument, not an ornament - Prioritizing how you feel - Getting into a flow state - Coming back to your authentic self - Objectifying our health - Setting experiential goals - Facing disruptions with better coping skills - Coming back to our childhood selves - Where you find information on Lexie and Lindsay Kite’s work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you use personal care products, understand that you're being exposed to a long list of
0:05.0	chemicals that can go into your skin, into your blood and start affecting your health over time.
0:09.5	So in this episode, you are going to learn what to look out for when it comes to personal care
0:13.6	products. Stay tuned.
0:21.7	All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my personal favorite show. He'll myself.
0:27.7	Thank you so much for being here.
0:30.2	Today's show is, I've been excited to put this one out here because I had this conversation
0:36.8	with Lexi Kite quite a while ago and it stayed with me for so long. And here's the thing about it.
0:44.8	We live in a world that highly, highly values the material, highly values the physical.
0:53.2	And we put it on a pedestal because essentially it's all that we experience and see,
0:58.2	not knowing that there's depth and deeper parts to us, but Lexi and her sister are two researchers
1:06.4	and through their research, they were able to put together the reframing of how we as a society
1:13.3	see beauty and body image and the way that she communicates this reframing is so empowering because
1:20.6	it makes you think about how you think about your body and it makes you think how you can better
1:24.4	have a relationship with your body. It's really powerful. The conversation you're about to
1:28.4	listen to and I'm really excited to get you into it. But before that, you'll remember last week,
1:33.2	I promised you a run or tour of the bathroom because we went around, we went from room to room in
1:39.9	the house. We went from the living room to the kitchen and I gave you the best swaps,
1:45.0	how to look for stuff, how to look for better quality stuff in each room. We went to the bedroom,
1:49.3	but we held out a little bit on the bathroom. Today, I'm going to give you my list of chemicals
1:53.6	to avoid in your personal care products. Very important because a lot of men and a lot of women
1:58.4	are using personal care products and a lot of you don't know what to look for. This is going to
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