When you start up therapy, one of the first things the therapist will do is warn you that things may get intense and they may get worse before they get better. This is part of the ‘informed consent’ medical practitioners need to provide to patients or clients prior to providing services. In my experience, it’s…… Continue reading When your healing becomes a threat
I’ve been in plenty of liberation spaces and recovery spaces with fat people and the stories I’ve heard make me angry and heartbroken and determined to keep working. The one that I don’t think I’ll ever forget is when someone told me how they are careful exerting themselves in public because they didn’t want to…… Continue reading Body Cops and Gatekeepers
There’s a meme I’ve seen floating around the internet a bunch that says “Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people.”Around the holidays, tradition is peer pressure from the living too, as any deviation from “the way things are done” can be responded to as if you are out there desecrating graves.I left behind a…… Continue reading What are those traditions for anyway?
Most of us developed our beliefs about our body at the table of our family home, so when you are challenging some of those inherited beliefs, going back home can be challenging in return. Holidays are times full of joy and festivity and belonging, and they can also be times full of food and body…… Continue reading Body Loyal Holidays