Episode 79: Jordan Younger is the blogger behind top-read health and lifestyle blog The Balanced Blonde. She is also the creator of the health-inspired conscious clothing line TBV Apparel, which now retails internationally. Jordan lives in sunny Los Angeles with her kitten Hudson where she blogs full-time and just released her first book, an eating disorder recovery memoir titled Breaking Vegan.
This is Jordan’s second time to appear on the podcast (listen to our first conversation here) and I’m so happy to have her back. If I were to have any “cyber twin” out there, I would have to say that she is it. We have gone through so many of the same things in regards to veganism, extremism, obsession and disordered eating behavior. I know that if you resonate with my message, you’re definitely going to love hers!
By the way, HERE is a video we were in together earlier this year 🙂
- Jordan’s history of juice cleanses, IBS, plant-based eating and orthorexia
- What happened when Jordan announced on her blog that she would no longer be vegan
- How we both have blamed our stomach issues when we want to follow a diet
- How she’s learning to balance out her extremist nature
- The “shame” aspect of wanting to try out a new way of eating as a recovering orthorexic
- How Jordan has been handling the backlash from the title of her new book
- Jordan’s favourite part about her book (and mine!)
Connect with Jordan:
- Website
- Buy the book HERE
- TBV Apparel
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Great talk/topic. I have found that vegans can be very militant and violent in writing. It’s really disappointing and so against the movement which, in my mind, should be about being kind to animals; not nasty to other people who don’t follow their ‘religion’ of veganism..
I loved the podcast. I really understand orthorexia, I think I had these tendencies as well before I found intuitive eating. Thank you Maddy to be a part of this process for me!
But I was kind of frustrated that the ETHICAL aspect of being vegan is only a sidenote. Most vegans are so for they made a moral decision; you can totally be a junk food vegan, eating oreos and fries. I feel like the title of Jordans book is negatively commented for this reason: we need to rethink our way of abusing animals, and one can get angry if this message is ignored. (Not that I want to say what they said to her was ok, actually- I think it was very wrong and I am ashamed for those people) I hope you get my point. These are two seperate topics. It´s like, you do choose to not eat cats; is that the no-cat-diet? 😉
I think it is never okay to bully someone because of their lifestyle choices, exspecially if you are talking about overcoming an eating disorder. I believe that Jordan needed to stop being vegan for her mental health! But she did not need to shame veganism for it; she should have called it breaking clean eating or something that stresses the orthorexia. I am vegan because I want to cause less harm. Hating on Jordan would never be an option for me since that would be the opposite of love. I hope she is sucessful and wish her all the best. I just also hope that she seperates being vegan from her orthorexia, since we need to fix the awful problem we have called factory farming.
Best from Germany!