Episode Description
Meghan McTavish joins Dr Lara Goode and opens up about "cool girl" conditioning, divorce, solo travel and why having it all was never the win we were told it was.
Meghan McTavish spent years being whoever the person in front of her needed her to be. The cool girl who drank on a weekday. The Zen yogi. The woman on the dating app with a bikini photo and no opinions.
In the first episode of Light It Up, Dr Lara Goode sits down with Meghan, the writer, creator of the Plotline journal and self described divorce-fluencer, to talk about what it actually costs to be that agreeable, and what happens when you stop.
They get into the campaign Meghan ran on dating apps after her marriage ended, and why she felt uglier the more men liked her. The villain narrative that follows women as they get older. Why she has been celibate for two years and is happier for it. And the trick she and her ex used while still living under the same roof, taking turns being the 1950s husband, which turned out to be the thing that showed her she could do it alone.
Lara brings her own side of it. A recent ADHD diagnosis at 35 and the anger that came with realising how many choices were made while masking. A marriage that hit rock bottom and came back as marriage 2.0. And the burnout that landed her in a body that stopped cooperating.
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