Sara Hirsh Bordo

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622 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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The Liz Moody Podcast · New Research: Being A "Good Girl" Is Making You Sick (Really). Here's How + What To Do · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

They work in harmony with each other.

But the good girls and the caretakers, the discomfort is visceral when you have to start receiving care.

And to me, I really wanted to unpack receptivity, where we have lost our way, how we have been trained, but it again starts as girlhoods.

If we believe that we're more comfortable

and happier and more dutiful and being good when we are in service of other people, then we have removed our personal needs and wants from the dynamic.

We've taken us out because of the fear of disappointing other people, because feeling loved is more, we're starving for that.

Or I think I might have an idea of what's happening or I think I might have this.

bad reaction to this drug, but I'm not going to tell him or her because if I tell him or her, then they're going to be disappointed with me.

And if they're disappointed with me, then I'm not going to get the right care.

And it's already hard enough to get in here.

This is what's happening in the back of the mind.

I've had conversations with doctors about this data

And I feel what is really starving for a reckoning is a new patient onboarding system.

What would that look like?

Well, I believe that there are, between the ACE survey and some of the little t trauma questions, when I have talked about this one-on-one with physicians,

They have said, so you're telling me that if I know they were raised to be a good girl, then they're not going to tell me what they're feeling.

They're telling me what they think I want to hear.

And so that is a part of the journey ahead that I'm really going to revel in.

I also think it is, excuse my language, fucking terrifying that 55%...

of my sisters here, said, receiving my autoimmune diagnosis changed the way I prioritize my own needs from the way I did before being diagnosed.

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