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

But I think that we are in a time right now where if there are voices out there that aren't being catalyzed and boosted and championed, especially in a woman and a female body, because we don't want to take a risk, we don't want to look stupid, we don't want to fail, all of these things that it's in our DNA of how men and women compete and thrive and sort of exercise ambition differently.

I just didn't want to not continue to pursue it because I was afraid that it wouldn't hold water.

There was a part of me that felt like I'm asking questions that other people won't ask.

And let me see if I can actually do that that could be in service of other women.

Would it be all right before we kept going to maybe just explain a little bit about how an autoimmune disease functions?

Yes, please do.

For those that are listening that don't know what the fuck we're talking about.

And I wrote the book for women that are diagnosed, but I also wrote it for our loved ones because there are a lot more questions than there are answers to this entire experience.

And that can be deeply frustrating, not only for the woman who needs help, but doesn't know how to ask for it or receive it.

And we'll get to that.

but also for those around us that don't know how to help in the way that they want to help.

But an autoimmune disease is, in essence, the body's immune system is at war with itself.

The immune system can't recognize healthy cells from unhealthy cells.

So it begins to attack itself.

And to me, I found that as a storyteller,

Again, fascinating.

If my body couldn't recognize itself, what was that saying about the woman, in this case me, who was living life in that body?

When I started peeling it back all the way to the beginning, and I knew that so many of us were eldest and only daughters,

I knew so many of us were raised to be a bit more dutiful than a bit more true.

I knew how many of us were raised to people please, because that helped us feel safe and loved.

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