How's Your Body Image Doing?
4 quick questions + this week's body image lesson
April 15: Join me for this free, virtual Fat Liberation Panel
May 4-6: I’ll be Colombia presenting at the Bogota International Book Fair.
May 25: “Sniff & Write: An Embodied Writing Workshop” at The Radical Cat in Reno, NV
June 5: “The Weight Stigma Talk Doesn’t Have To Be Scary: Learning to Talk with Friends, Family & Co-Workers About Fatphobia” at the South Berkeley Library
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…
Just naming factors that might impact your body image is a great practice in self-knowledge and self-awareness. 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…
Before we get started, let’s ground a little:
Wiggle your fingers.
Wiggle your toes.
Unclench your jaw.
Unclench you shoulders.
Unclench your belly.
Unclench your thighs.
Now take 4 big, slow breaths. As you inhale, I want you to make your belly as big as possible and on the exhale, imagine you’re slowly blowing out a candle.
Your body is good exactly as it is, and so are you.