Episode 66
When exercise = danger
Good Girls Talk About Sex · Leah Carey
October 8, 202025m 40sExplicit
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Show Notes
Leah talks about a consent violation she experienced during medical care last year, and also shares her insights into her own fear around exercising.
- Leah begins by sharing about her quarantine weight gain, which led her to confront a lifetime's worth of avoidance issues around exercise — and an insight into how that mirrors the effects a negative body image had on safety in her sex
- Leah shares a traumatic memory of assault at age 12 at the hands of her father.
- Built-in responses to trauma complicate our culture's idea that pushing through weight loss difficulties is just about
- Early socialization and sexualization for those who grew up in girl bodies adds further trauma and mixed messaging.
- Leah talks about an experience of violation of consent during a visit to a new Boldly, she addresses it after the visit.
Resources mentioned:
- Evelin Dacker's Good Girls Talk About Sex episode
- Stand up to medical consent violations - www.leahcarey.com/medicalconsent
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EPISODE CREDITS:
Host / Producer – Leah Carey (email) Audio Editor – Gretchen Kilby Administrative Support - Lara O'Connor, Maria Franco
Transcript creation – Jan Acielo Music – Nazar Rybak