How's Your Body Image Doing?
4 quick questions + this week's body image lesson
May 25: “Sniff & Write: An Embodied Writing Workshop” at The Radical Cat in Reno, NV
June 5: "Learning to Talk About Fatphobia" at the South Berkeley Library
June 22: “Sniff & Write: An Embodied Writing Workshop” at gorgeous Tenfold Farmstand in Petaluma, CA
Checking in weekly with your body image can help you feel less overwhelmed and may even help you spot positive or negative patterns. Let’s do this!
No matter how you answered, kudos for taking the time to notice how you feel. Next question…
Trying to locate where your body image feelings live is a great practice in self-awareness and embodiment. Next question…
Having a small, easy action item helps you learn to take care of yourself and your body image. Ready for your last check-in question?
This week, notice if checking in with your body image helped you feel more clear or empowered.
Scroll all the way down & hit play to get a quick grounding exercise + pep talk from me and listen to this week’s body image lesson, or keep reading…
This week, let’s apply the theme of REFLECT to our body image work.
About a year ago, a person I'd worked with reached out to me with an urgent text. Let’s call her Lucy.
Lucy’s mother had just passed away. Like Lucy, her mother had lived in a larger body. Lucy felt overwhelmed, and found that one of the only ways she was coping with this devastating loss was through planning to start a diet. I was so glad she had reached out to me.
She had taken a few seconds to reflect, sensing that maybe her first response (to plan on starting a new diet) wasn't ultimately the one that was best for her.
For people who don't have long histories with fatphobia and diet culture/disordered eating, it might seem unusual that a fat daughter might cope with the loss of her fat mother's passing through thinking of starting a diet. However, this is not surprising at all to me. Fat people are constantly