Where Beauty Standards Come From and How to Stop Self-Objectification with Dr. Lindsay Kite

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

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever thought that you were happier when you were thinner/ prettier/ younger/ etc? In a culture that values thinness and beauty, it’s hard not to believe that your value lies in your appearance. We buy into arbitrary beauty ideals and false promises, killing ourselves to look a certain way. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Lindsay Kite, co-author of the book More Than a Body and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, to talk about healing body-image struggles. You will learn... - the missing piece of the puzzle when we talk about body-image - how the male gaze affects body-image - why losing weight and changing your appearance never solves the problem - ways to combat toxic beauty ideals and build body -image resilience Remember: keeping up with beauty ideals is a losing game. Adhering to society’s definition of beauty does NOT buy love, confidence, health, or happiness. Usually, it only exacerbates body-image struggles. Dr. Lindsay Kite is co-author of the book More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament (2020, HarperCollins) and co-director of the nonprofit Beauty Redefined, alongside her identical twin sister Lexie Kite. Both received PhDs from the University of Utah in the study of female body image and have become leading experts in body image resilience and media literacy. Lindsay and Lexie help girls and women recognize and reject the harmful effects of objectification in their lives through their social media activism (IG @beauty_redefined), online course (morethanabody.org), and regular speaking engagements for people of all ages. Lindsay lives in New York City. Follow Lindsay on Instagram: @beauty_redefined Get Lindsay and Lexie Kite’s book, More Than a Body: https://www.morethanabody.org/more-than-a-body-book/ And if you enjoyed this episode, screenshot it and share it on social media! Make sure to tag @maryspodcast and @beauty_redefined Mentioned In This Episode... Lindsay’s TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/uDowwh0EU4w

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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,
0:08.8	an author, speaker, and all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire
0:15.1	you to love yourself. 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.
0:25.5	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.
0:32.6	It's a comprehensive workbook to help you build confidence, recognize your worth, and learn to love who you are.
0:39.0	Thousands of people have this book and the five-star reviews are so amazing. They give me so much
0:44.3	life. So I hope that this is something that can help you too. You can get it wherever books are
0:48.8	sold by searching for the gift of self-love or go to my website, maryscup of tea.com slash book.
0:55.9	After releasing the gift of self-love and reading all your positive feedback, I realized that
1:00.3	we really needed something to keep us going every single day. So not a deep dive workbook,
1:05.6	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,
1:17.7	including body, identity, purpose, emotions, mindset, relationships, and more.
1:23.7	So you can really think of it as a metaphorical multivitamin, something to keep you going,
1:28.5	or as I like to say, growing on your self-love journey.
1:31.6	You can get this journal wherever books are sold as well by searching for 100 days of self-love
1:36.3	or go to Mary's Cup of Tea.com slash journal.
1:39.4	It's my mission to share all the self-love tea with you, so I hope that both my books and
1:44.0	this podcast can do just that.
1:51.6	Have you ever thought that you would be or were happier when you were thinner, prettier,
1:57.9	younger, looked a certain different way. In a culture that values thinness and
2:06.2	beauty and is quite frankly obsessed with women's appearances, it's hard not to believe that
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