Realizing my true strengths in eating disorder recovery | Mandy DiMarzo | TEDxUNCPembroke
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
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More than ever, the outside pressures of today’s world are having a huge impact on our teen women and young adults. Research now shows 50% of teenage girls have unhealthy weight control habits and eating disorders. Mandy Dimarzo shares her own struggle with anorexia and how her journey turned tragedy into triumph. In her TEDx talk, she shares 5 vulnerable truths that changed the trajectory of her future, including how anorexia actually saved her life. It's what she calls redefining your “strong.” Mandy DiMarzo has been a passionate athlete her whole life. As a former division one soccer player who later transitioned into distance running and triathlons to keep her competitive juices flowing, she knows a thing or two about pushing the body’s limits. She has built a world-wide community through her health and wellness expertise that now spans over 80 countries and 2300 towns/cities across the globe. She empowers women to achieve their highest potential and has gone on to work with companies to motivate, inspire, and cultivate a high-performance community that works as a team to unleash their full potential. Mandy DiMarzo has been a passionate athlete her whole life. As a former division one soccer player who later transitioned into distance running and triathlons to keep her competitive juices flowing, she knows a thing or two about pushing the body’s limits. After enduring countless overuse injuries, as well as overcoming an eating disorder, Mandy made a conscious decision to stop striving for the unattainable and unhealthy. What started out as her personal journey to make her the strongest version of herself, quickly metabolized into being a role model for others. Mandy has built a world-wide community through her BURN classes that now span over 80 countries and 2300 towns/cities across the globe. She empowers her BURN tribe to achieve their highest potential and has gone on to work with companies to motivate, inspire, and cultivate a high-performance community that works as a team to unleash their full potential. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Celebrating daily wins really resonated with me. It's easy to overlook the small victories, but they truly do build up to monumental change.
So glad to hear this. It really is about the mini to move towards the major. It's the things we do day in and day out and celebrating the strength it takes us to make those small victories happen! appreciate you taking time to watch my talk
Love hearing about people finding strength in their darkest moments, just speaks to how true it is that resilience and courage come from unexpected places.
The idea of not biting the hand that feeds you, especially your own, is a profound lesson. Self-care and balance are so crucial to well-being.
I am glad that resonates with you. Thanks for taking the time to listen. Striking that Balance is a daily process for sure!
This TEDx talk needs to be heard by young people, educators, mental health professionals and friends...we have to turn this narrative around soon! Thanks Mandy!
thanks! YES! I hope this talk is shared with all of the leaders in our lives! Including you!!
Such a powerful message around something that cannot be talked about enough - especially in today's world with all the outside pressures on young women and teens. The statistics you shared were mind blowing. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing those vulnerable truths that led to YOUR STRONG. You are an amazing soul! Thank you for sharing this important message!! 💛
You truly embody support, guidance, leadership, and yes you are a dream weaver!
Thank you so much for sharing this! You are an incredible person with a message that needs to be heard!
Thanks my friend...going through this together only reaffirmed everything we already knew to be true...we worked hard to get to where we are and cross our paths!
The shift from focusing on physical strength to mental fortitude is something we all can learn from. True strength comes from within but in todays society that's something that's very easy to forget.
It really gets lost in the noise. But when we find the balance and expand our definition of strength....that is when we have truly powered up our lives. thanks for listening.
So glad she had such a great support network, I think that's essential for overcoming any struggle and also why it's so dangerous that we have such a poor sense of community life nowadays
Important message and beautifully said! Pay attention to the messages our bodies are dying to tell us. Thank you for sharing your story and your wisdom!
Thanks so much Michael and thank you for supporting this talk that has been written on my hear for such a long time!
Wonderful talk! Thank you for sharing these hard learned lessons!
Thank you for all you have done to get this talk to where it needs to be and helping as many as it possibly can!
Removing limiting beliefs to embrace life fully is a powerful message. It's something many of us struggle with, and your story highlights the importance of mental freedom.
Limiting beliefs can have such a strong hold and truly limit our potential. Thanks so much for listening and for appreciating the messages and the opportunity.
WOW, such a powerful message. Thank you, Mandy, for so bravely sharing such a dark moment, to help others struggling to find the light
Thanks Sara...this means a lot my friend!
Redefining what something means. Thank you for showing strength is in vulnerability and listening to the conversations we have with ourselves is one of the our best forms of inquiry.
thank you for taking the time to listen and write this. Iron sharpens iron...this is how we grow. appreciate you.
I appreciate the honesty about the harsh realities of anorexia. It's important to highlight the psychological and physical battles that people face because a lot of the time people just don't know all the things that happen alongside conditions like that
Very Well said-it goes beyond the numbers on the scale and each case is as individual as the human-but recognizing the struggle is where we can all start! thanks so much for listening-appreciate you!
I think it's vital to discuss how social media impacts body image. It's a huge issue that needs more attention and understanding because not only are the images posted setting such unrealistic aspirations but often they are so freakin photoshopped!! But if you don't know that of course you'd be like wow how is my body like this in comparison!
Such incredible points you are making! All the images thrown our way-airbrushed, photoshopped, filters....we are impacting lives, self-confidence and self worth! Thank you for empowering the authentic and real! These are the messages we need to continue to share to offset the negative!
Such an important message. Thank u so much for your vulnerability. I am going to start journaling my wins daily instead of beating myself up for my failures. Love that shift of perspective.
thanks of this Michelle...love to hear you are going to bring the strong journal practice into your daily routine. just watch how much momentum you are building with those small daily wins!
Your point about longevity not being about age but about vitality is spot on. We need to focus more on meaningful growth rather than just numbers.
Means so much to hear you say this...Thank you for recognizing how dimensional growth and longevity can look like (*and feel like!)
@@MandyDimarzo wonderful talk - thank you
Sending this to a family member, they need to see this talk....
Thank you for taking the action I was hoping would happen beyond this talk and into the lives of the ones that need to hear it. This is everything.
@@MandyDimarzo and it did - bless you
It's incredible to hear how you turned such a challenging experience into a positive transformation, it's obviously been such a journey but redefining strength is so powerful and in your case very inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
I truly appreciate you taking the time to listen....and finding the value in taking a closer look on how we define strength. We are all on our journey's...thank you for taking the time to write this.
@@MandyDimarzo wow, thank you for taking the time to reply, great talk! keep speaking...
Thank you for sharing your story, more content and discussions like this are needed!
absolutely !! thanks so much for taking the time to listen...and recognize the more we shed light on this topic the more we bring it out of the shadows!
Well said, Mandy! What an excellent talk. More need to hear about this. Amazing job.
Thanks for this and for continuing to be the leader and motivational speaker you are! appreciate you!
It's clear that your experience has shaped your perspective in a unique way. However, I feel that framing diseases as something that can save us might be misleading and potentially dangerous for some.
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