Stories
Will You Be Your Valentine? Gifts for Cultivating Self-Love
Will You Be Your Valentine? Gifts for Cultivating Self-Love posted by Martha Krausz/ February 14, 2023 When I was in college studying Virginia Woolf among the Jersey-cowed fields of rural Massachusetts, my mother would send me boxes of See’s Candy. In February,...
Activism in Action: Health Advocacy
Activism in Action: Health Advocacyposted by Naomi Finkelstein / February 2, 2019The doctor's office can be a tricky place to navigate for many of us. While of course there are many wonderful doctors in the world who save lives and change them for the better,...
Prevention Nourishes Hope in Eating Disorders Treatment
Prevention Nourishes Hope in Eating Disorders Treatmentposted by Elizabeth Scott / January 31, 2019 Today I learned that a client I’ve been treating for a chronic, long-term eating disorder will not be returning to therapy. She does not feel hopeful and cannot go on...
Queer Fertility is a Body Positive Journey
Queer Fertility is a Body Positive Journeyposted by MD Spicer-Sitzes / January 15, 2019 The World Health Organization (WHO) defines infertility as “a disease of the reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a clinical pregnancy after 12 months or more of...
Combating the Body Image Blahs
Combating the Body Image Blahsposted by Naomi Finkelstein / September 5, 2018 A few weeks ago, I found myself in the middle of a bad bout of the Body Image Blahs. My body was the first thing I was thinking about when I woke up in the morning, and it wasn’t a good...
MIGA Swimwear: Sharing Stories in the Disfigurement Community to Combat Stigma
MIGA Swimwear: Sharing Stories in the Disfigurement Community to Combat Stigmaposted by The Body Positive / May 17, 2018 I think it was around the time I was eleven years old that my feet started to look funny. All my other toes kept growing normally, except for the...
Connecting to Joy and Purpose through African Dance
Connecting to Joy and Purpose through African Danceposted by Elizabeth Scott / May 1, 2018 I followed the sound of the pounding conga drums that echoed down the sidewalk and found myself in a large studio in the Santa Cruz Cultural Center where a circle of dancers...
