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Autoimmunity and the Good Girls: Behind-the-Page with Sara Hirsh Bordo

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Welcome to Behind the Page, a limited podcast series for my first book,"Autoimmunity and the Good Girls: How Permission to Put Ourselves First Has the Power to Keep Us Well." Pre-order now! Available June 2, 2026 in the U.S. and in 10 other countries on July 28th. Get your copy wherever your favorite books and audiobooks are sold. A percent of the author's proceeds will benefit the Society for Women's Health Research. More about the book can be found at: www.goodgirlsbook.com I’m your host, documentary filmmaker and author, Sara Hirsh Bordo. For the last 12 years, I’ve been telling the real stories of women and girls. I’m also an autoimmune diagnosed lifelong recovering good girl and a recovering self-compromising eldest daughter with Hashimoto's. In writing and researching for my book and my own national research across 1,000 other autoimmune diagnosed American women, I was lucky enough to sit down with an incredible group of experts spanning from science to soul, across medicine and modalities. This podcast is a sneak peek, ahead of the book's official release, into this research and these powerful stories. It offers so many gems of wisdom, so many slips of permission, that are in service of you now. For the first time, I’m coming out from behind the camera and the story I’m telling is mine. The story of what being raised to be a good girl can do to our health as women. We are not here to stay the same. We are here to transform, to heal and to rise. Follow Sara and the book's journey on Instagram: @sarahirshbordo “Sara Hirsh Bordo combines deeply suffered but ultimately triumphant personal history with the irrefutable science of mind-body unity to show that disease can arise from being too good for one’s own good—and be overcome by reclaiming power and agency. This illuminating volume will liberate many women from self-suppression and its frequent consequence, physical illness.” — Gabor Maté, MD, author of the international bestseller When the Body Says No “Sara is an Architect of Change.” — Maria Shriver, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist

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