Poet and author Megan Falley explores body shame, love, and forgiveness. She reflects on her earliest memories of body shame, talks about her summers at 'fat camp,' and shares her experience finding love with poet Andrea Gibson. The podcast delves into topics such as confidence, gender, self-perception, and the challenges of body image and weight loss. Megan shares a powerful story that offers a unique perspective on forgiveness.
Megan Falley reflects on her earliest memories of body shame and highlights the lessons she learned about love from her family.
Megan shares her experiences at 'fat camp' and her decision to leave an abusive relationship, emphasizing the transformative power of self-love and finding a healthy partnership.
The podcast explores the complexities of body, gender, and love, emphasizing the importance of holding both the good and bad aspects of love simultaneously.
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The Influence of Culture and Childhood Experiences on Body Image
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Exploring Gender, Sexuality, and Identity
Megan and Glennon discuss the complexities of gender, sexuality, and identity, and the challenges faced in a society that often oversimplifies or misunderstands these aspects of a person's life.
When was the first time you were made aware of your body or made to feel ashamed of your body? As promised, poet and author, Megan Falley, returns and blows Glennon’s mind with her explorations into the complexities of body, gender, and love.
Megan reflects on her earliest memories of body shame and the lessons she learned about love from her family (and how she’s able to hold both the good and the bad at once). Megan shares about her summers at “fat camp,” her decision to leave an abusive relationship, and finding love with poet Andrea Gibson that redefined for her what it means to truly love and be loved. At the end, she tells a story that Glennon decides is the best description she’s heard of what forgiveness might actually be.
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Megan Falley is a nationally-ranked slam poet and the author of three full-length collections of poetry – most recently her book “Drive Here and Devastate Me”. Since transitioning to writing prose, excerpts from her memoir-in-progress have won several first- and second-place national prizes. She runs an online writing workshop called “Poems That Don’t Suck” which has been heralded as “a degree’s worth of education in 5 short weeks.”