When you focus on dieting and weight loss, you’re feeding the cultural nonsense. I’ve sat with hundreds of clients who are breaking out of the diet/binge trap and developing a healthy relationship with food and their body. But then they have to go out into a fatphobic, food-obsessed world where their friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances, healthcare providers, and […]
Just because I do not represent someone’s ideal of beauty, they are not allowed, by their actions, to negate me. If you hang around my mother and me long enough, you will hear the Onion Ring Story. I honestly don’t know why she tells it. Maybe she thinks it’s a cute childhood anecdote that should […]
This originally appeared on Everyday Feminism. Republished here with permission. A woman’s body size isn’t just seen as a police-able “work in progress.” It’s also the golden ticket that allows us to follow our dreams. The concept of a single ideal of attractiveness has been ubiquitous in Western culture for decades. The beauty ideal has […]
