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#14 On damaging female stereotypes: writer Alya Mooro talks rejecting Western beauty standards and what she's packed in her mental health toolkit
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Alya Mooro is the Egyptian born, London raised writer & best-selling author of The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes.
Many of Alya’s Instagram followers will be familiar with her The Greater Conversation newsletter & community (& if you don’t, go sign up!) but did you know that Alya is also a TV producer with a number of exciting projects up her sleeve?
Tune in to this Third Culture Therapy conversation & find out about Alya’s journey of self-development & what she puts her mental health toolbox today!
Topics covered include:
- What it means to be a “woman outside the stereotypes” means and why she wouldn’t put “Middle Eastern” in the book’s title today
- Why her looks are the least interesting thing about her (though she’d still like a good selfie!)
- How illness and a radically different food diet made her learn how to trust herself more
As well as being a brilliant writer & producer, Alya also hosted & produced a podcast series called The Talk of Shame in which she explores the meaning and impact shame has on our lives in an attempt to answer that all important question: how do we stop giving a f*ck and start living life for ourselves?
Listen to the episode to hear more about:
- What looking at shame can teach you
- The systemic and universal problems with shame (esp among women!)
- Why sharing in community disempowers shame
- Why thinking that people care about what you do online is arrogant
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