The Body Myth - More Body Peace ft. Lisa Garpestad

The Body Myth - More Body Peace ft. Lisa Garpestad

Lisa Garpestad joins The Body Myth for a conversation about the messages we get from loved ones about our size and appetites, overcoming a life of dieting, and finding a way to live without the noise of body judgment.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Lisa Garpestad lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, three teenage children, and two dogs. Having moved around the country due to her husband’s job for several years, she is thrilled to be back in her hometown for good! Lisa enjoys working as a preschool teacher, it allows her to be creative and silly on a daily basis. When not working, she enjoys photography, reading, (mostly suspense), traveling, podcasts, tv show binging, and time with family and friends.

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ABOUT THE HOST

MEET RONIT

Ronit’s essays and fiction have been featured in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, The New York Times, The Iowa Review, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in both the 2021 Best Book Awards and the 2021 Book of the Year Award and a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and will be published in 2022. She is host and producer of the podcasts And Then Everything Changed and The Body Myth.

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I’m thrilled to announce my memoir When She Comes Back (Motina Books 2021) is now available for purchase. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠 is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 70s and 80s about losing my mother to a guru in India, giving up power, growing up too fast, and what happens when the person your life revolves around can’t stay.

Take a deep dive… into a featured guest’s personal history; the pivotal moments of their childhood and adulthood that defined them and the crucial and sometimes painful decisions they made that forever changed the course of their lives.

ABOUT RONIT

Learn more about Ronit Plank’s story here.

I’m a writer, podcaster, teacher, and storyteller. Some of my work has been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The HuffPost, and The Rumpus, but for a complete list of links please visit my Published Works page.

My passion is learning how someone else has lived or survived or has come to understand something about themselves. I love the way stories–whether fiction or nonfiction or interviews–bridge vastly different lived experiences and help connect those who might not otherwise have found each other. Listening to someone tell you their truth and being able to share your own can be the glue that keeps us together and seen and supported.

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