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Unswtnd + Unfltrd

Navigating Life Through Trauma and Body Dysmorphia with Leah Vernon

Unswtnd + Unfltrd

Unswtnd+Unfltrd

Relationships, Depression, Society & Culture, Women, Health & Fitness, Self Care, Islam, Mental Illness, Politics, Sisterhood. Life Coach, Faith, Anxiety, Divorce, Mental Health, Relationship Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Marriage, Muslim Women, Muslim, Taboo

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 18, Leah Vernon blessed us with her presence. As a plus-size model, author, body-positive activist and Muslim feminist, Leah is creating a new narrative for women who don't fit into normalized beauty standards. We dive deep into Leah's childhood and the trauma she had endured, why she decided to embrace her body after a lifetime of shaming and the ways she deals with an influx of social media hate. Whether it's through her eccentric outfits, documenting her bouts with m...

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 18 of unsweet and unfiltered. Did you do anything this weekend, Zena?

0:15.0

I didn't and I'm very happy that I did it. So you just basically bummed it out?

0:18.6

Well, not really bummed it out, but it was like the first weekend I had at home and had nothing to do like outside of the apartment.

0:24.5

So I did some things around the house and just chilled.

0:27.1

Yeah.

0:27.3

Honestly, I felt like I needed just like a unwinding session.

0:31.4

Where you didn't have to put makeup on, fix your hair, none of that.

0:34.3

Well, I love that. I did that on the weekdays last week because I had to work from home and I worked from home back to back. Well, it was the best because I went to the to like know that you don't have anything planned but you're just

0:55.3

chowing i do want to give a little birthday shout out to my best friend jahan's wife i love this girl yes i did too

1:01.5

i met her because of you obviously but she's incredible she's so supportive and i fell in love with her

1:06.9

like the moment i met her yeah her birthday was this past Monday and it was just interesting

1:12.7

like we were all we all like planned it and everything like that and it was like nice to just

1:16.2

sit around a table and realize like wow we're growing old together like quotation marks old

1:21.5

because you're really not but it's nice to like live your life through the like the support of your friends and the way like I mean I'm blessed

1:30.6

to have two amazing sisters that I was born with and everything and those will always be my best

1:34.7

friends but then it's nice how like God always also does bless you with other people in your life

1:40.5

and those people are the ones that you choose to have in your life yeah like born into your life exactly your life. Exactly. And I'm, I don't know. I just like, I don't want to sound like

1:47.5

cheesy, but I'm really blessed with the friends that I have. And like, I'm telling you, like,

1:51.1

I know it's a little cliche when we people and for them to not pass judgment on you

2:02.4

or to not actually listen to you like these girls actually like give you great advice and they

2:06.5

they make sure they listen to me they make sure they pick up all my calls and we pick up each other's

2:10.2

calls and even for like jan's birthday i'm so stupid i literally forgot my heels and i'm like okay this is a

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