“Overcoming My Body Image & Self Worth Insecurities”
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
TW: This episode may be triggering to those with sensitivities around eating disorders and body image.
My friend Elana Rubin joins the show today to open up about how her struggle with disordered eating and body image has impacted her self-confidence, relationships, and dating life. She shares how a conversation with a boy when she was fourteen changed the way she viewed herself and had a lasting impact on her self-worth. Elana vulnerably discusses how she's worked through her struggles, what she's learned in therapy, and where she's at now.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:05.0 | And he said, oh, well, you don't have the type of body that guys are attracted to anyway. |
| 0:08.7 | And I was 14. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to seeing other people unfiltered. |
| 0:14.7 | It's Thursday. |
| 0:15.7 | So that means real life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and |
| 0:20.4 | always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:22.6 | Think you're alone out there? Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last |
| 0:27.1 | date ended up being a catfish? Think again. Hi, my name is Alana with an E. I'm Alana Rubin. I am a |
| 0:33.9 | filmmaker. I live in Los Angeles, not New York, and I'm here to talk about my dating |
| 0:38.3 | experiences as someone who has struggled with disordered eating and body image. |
| 0:42.7 | Well, first of all, thank you for coming on and for being open to talking about this. |
| 0:47.9 | And I'm really proud of you already, even though it's like 30 seconds in. |
| 0:51.5 | I might cry a lot. |
| 0:52.7 | Please. I have tissues right here. We can pretend this is |
| 0:56.4 | a therapy office. We got the tissues. We got the wine. We got the emotional support dog. |
| 1:02.1 | So we got it all. But thank you. It means a lot and it's so important to have conversations |
| 1:07.9 | like this. So where do you want to begin? That's a good question. |
| 1:13.8 | I guess childhood. I feel like that's probably like the normal place to start. I kind of like always felt |
| 1:20.4 | like the larger kind of kid growing up. I felt like, you know, things that family said was an influence on that. |
| 1:30.0 | And I think that we're all kind of like a byproduct of like society in our experiences. |
| 1:33.1 | And I don't personally blame anyone for things that I may have internalized. |
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