Maya Spencer-Berkeley on skin positivity and the freedom in acceptance

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10/30/19 • 32 min

Skin activist and model Maya Spencer Berkeley joins Tasha this week to talk about finding empowerment and love from her body through her battle of chronic skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa. Maya is passionate about giving skin conditions more visibility in the modelling industry, and to help normalise difference. In this powerful discussion of body positivity, Tasha and Maya talk about how they have come to a more accepting place in their relationship with their body, and how beauty really is happiness. For support please visit: https://www.mind.org.uk/

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