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Fat Liberation, Diet Culture, and Reimagining Our World
Fat Liberation, Diet Culture, and Reimagining Our World posted by Dariana Guerrero / May 14, 2021Trigger Warnings: diet culture, shaming, fatphobia, descriptions of dieting, and disordered eating In 1973 a group of radical fat therapists created The Fat...
Recipes for Pleasure: Self-Massage Edition
Recipes for Pleasure: Self-Massage Editionposted by Connie Sobczak / March 3, 2018I was a massage therapist for eight years before I started The Body Positive. I did deep, intense, emotional release work with people so they could reconnect to their bodies in a loving,...
Choosing Love Over Fear
Choosing Love Over Fearposted by The Body Positive / February 7, 2018When it comes to developing a peaceful relationship with our body, one of the major challenges we face is learning how to deal with the critical voice. This is the voice that chimes in to discourage...
Where Self-Love Fits in the #MeToo Movement
Where Self-Love Fits in the #MeToo Movementposted by Naomi Finkelstein / January 19, 2018 As I read the latest in the past year’s shockwave of unexpected celebrity human shortcomings (turns out Aziz Ansari is also not exempt from being inappropriately persistent and...
Giving Tuesday: Giving Back to our Communities
Giving Tuesday: Giving Back to our Communitiesposted by The Body Positive / November 27, 2017In honor of Giving Tuesday, we reached out to our recently trained Be Body Positive Facilitators to hear about the impact that they are having in their communities. 20% of the...
Exploring the Intersection of Gender Identity and Body Positivity
Exploring the Intersection of Gender Identity and Body Positivityposted by MD Spicer-Sitzes / November 12, 2017I had the pleasure of attending Dr. Lindo/a Bacon’s revolutionary workshop, When Self-Love Isn’t Enough, in the Bay Area last week. If you don’t know,...
My Body Positive Pregnancy
My Body Positive Pregnancyposted by Jessica Diaz France / October 25, 2017Pregnancy brings up a lot of feelings and fears for many people. Fear of a body “out of control” that will never be the same, the symptoms, the impending pain, the weight gain, it goes on and...
