The One About Diets, Obedience & The Patriarchy with Alex Light
The Papaya Podcast
The Papaya Podcast
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Alex Light is a body confidence influencer who is committed to helping women across the world feel better in their own skin, exactly as they are. We discuss diets, obedience and the patriarchy, and how the EFF to navigate it. Happy New Year? January can be the perfect storm for those resisting diet culture but also having those feelings of craving change. Instead of pretending we don’t all have those feelings - lets talk about it! We’re sharing our stories about our bodies, diet culture and why we share. Yes, especially if you’re like us and often have craved and been confused by that January push for change, too!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.5 | Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your hostess, Trin Hermostis, Sarah Nicole. |
| 0:13.1 | And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. |
| 0:20.7 | So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital space together. |
| 0:31.5 | I am so excited to welcome today's guest Alex Light to the show. You may recognize her from |
| 0:39.2 | the gram, Alex Light underscore LDN. She's very known for going viral for so many different |
| 0:45.6 | reasons, bringing up and building awareness around diet culture. She talks about body confidence. |
| 0:52.2 | She talks about how to feel better in your body, eating disorder |
| 0:55.2 | recovery, and of course, fashion, beauty, life as well. Her story is similar to mine, but intersects |
| 1:02.6 | in very different ways and the way that we've healed and talked about it. And she has so much |
| 1:07.7 | insight into the why. Why do we think this way? Why do we feel this way? I'm excited to bring |
| 1:14.1 | her on, to have these conversations and ultimately help us ask ourselves, why? Alex, welcome to the |
| 1:22.6 | show. Cute little British self. You are a newlywed. You are doing so much in the world. But I mean, |
| 1:31.8 | many of us know you or would recognize you for some of your very viral posts. And you and I have |
| 1:38.6 | had some pretty big conversations about that. But kind of before we really get into like the grit of your why and what |
| 1:47.6 | that is, maybe let's personally take people through your story as to why you even cared in the |
| 1:53.5 | first place to start hosting some of these conversations. Because I think what's interesting |
| 1:59.7 | is I followed you for a while before realizing that you |
| 2:03.0 | had a personal tie to why you were sharing diet culture in our awareness around it. So |
| 2:08.7 | kind of lead me through that story a little bit. Definitely. I always feel like I have to |
| 2:14.4 | sort of almost like apologize when I go through this story because it feels |
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