Be Nourished
To our friends and colleagues, We are grateful to Marquisele Mercedes (Mikey), Lindley Ashline, Veronica Garnett, The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH), and others who are sharing their very clear experiences of harm with Lindo. Reading through and processing the many accounts this week put us right back in our own string of…
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It is Eating Disorder Awareness Week, a week dedicated to reminding the world that eating disorders are incredibly pervasive, though most go unseen and undetected due to misinformation about them. Eating disorders are in your living room, your friend groups, your classrooms and your workplace, regardless of whether or not we recognize them as such.…
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My hunger, my appetites, my longings, my skin, my bones, my size are mine for the taking. I take back my voice, my agency, my worthiness, my belonging in the world of beautiful and diverse beings. I live without apology for the straight lines and curves, living tissue and vulnerable heart that hold my living,…
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Body Trust is an invitation to bring a radically different healing paradigm into your life and into the world. Holding up a mirror to what you have been taught to believe about weight and health can be confronting. Diet programs and weight loss/fitness plans are super concrete with their list of do’s and don’ts, and…
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Our collective fails to understand the role discrimination, stigma and oppression play in people’s emotional and physical well-being. We fail to see how conversations about health often bypass the social determinants of health (poverty, trauma, environmental racism, genetics). We over-rely on personal responsibility and bootstrapping rhetoric (i.e. If you get sick, it’s your fault). We…
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