Beauty, the Body, and the Rise of the Feminine: In Conversation with Hannah Levin
About this episode
Jill and Hannah Levin discuss the cultural forces shaping women's body image and beauty standards, exploring deeper themes of power and femininity.
What does it really mean to feel beautiful - and who decided the standard in the first place? In this wide-ranging conversation, Jill and Hannah Levin (from the Vitality Circle), pull back the curtain on the cultural forces that have shaped women's relationship with their bodies: from Botox and the male gaze to beauty standards that reward looking perpetually young and prepubescent. What begins as a conversation about aging and body image opens into something much deeper: a reckoning with systemic power, the wounds of girlhood, and what it truly means to show up in a female body in today's world. Together, Jill and Hannah explore: *How beauty standards have been shaped by toxic masculinity and power imbalances - and what the Epstein files reveal about that *The "fawn response" and how both women and men are conditioned to comply rather than confront *Brahmacharya and the ancient yogic principle of responsible sexuality and why we need it back *The Ayurvedic lens on perimenopause, the adrenals, and why how you live your 30s and 40s matters deeply for your menopausal transition *The "sister wound" and how healing our trust in other women may be one of the most radical things we can…
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