Season 2, Episode 5 with Alejandra Porta
Life In An ED Treatment Facility
- Alejandra Porta
Show Notes
Eating disorder treatment comes in many forms, and Alejandra Porta (she/her/hers) is sharing her 2-month inpatient treatment experience where she learned, much to her own surprise, how fatphobic she was towards herself. This deeply candid conversation explores the impact of emotionally abusive relationships, how being surrounded by diet culture complicated her recovery, how she learned to set boundaries and embrace self compassion and confidence.
Alejandra is a Nicaraguan designer, creator of “A Little Time for Your Journal” and “A Hug for You” affirmation deck, and co-creator of Shine Bootcamp, a speaker and confidence accelerator for women who believe design thinking can be applied to any discipline. Alejandra specializes in brand and communication design for startups and is currently living her dream by being her own boss as a freelancer. A champion for body positivity and health at any size, Alejandra was recently named of of eighty women and non-binary people to follow in tech by betakit, as well as being nominated for the “Women of Influence” award sponsored by RBC. In her spare time, she writes about mental health, radical self-acceptance and self compassion.
Please connect with Alejandra on Instagram, her website, The Underbelly, and her online store.
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