Specialties:
Body Image
Body Liberation
Fat Liberation
Clinician is a registered Health at Every Size® (HAES) provider with The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)
Things you may want to work on or need more support to deal with:
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Shame
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Self esteem | self worth
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Experiences of anti fat bias
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Weight stigma
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Relationship with self
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Medical and other providers giving substandard care especially to those in larger bodies
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Ideas about "health" that are coded bias
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Diet culture
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Relationship to food
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Internalized self hatred
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Judgement from family, friends, media
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Discrimination
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Health inequities
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Feeling invisible
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Access and accommodation needs
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Feeling like a failure if you are not able to achieve or maintain weight loss
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Disordered eating patterns
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People commenting on the size of your body
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The "good" fatty
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Isolation
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Access to clothing
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In "brick and mortar" stores
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That actually fits
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And isnt a flower print!
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BODY LIBERATION​
Culture and society in the US values youth, fitness, being able bodied, sports, appearance, diet culture, and so many other harmful "Norms". The fatphobic environment we live in encourages people, especially medical providers, to be dismissive at best of people who are fat for any reason, supporting chronic or "yo-yo" dieting, and frequently leads fat people into eating disorders, unhealthy relationships with food, and a higher weight than when the diet started.​
Whatever the reasons are for people being fat -- the medical profession, our friends, families, and workplaces tend to have negative thoughts and feelings about fat people - and relate to fatness as a moral failure.​ If you want community and support, want to live your best fat life but don't know how, if you take medication that has led to weight gain, if you want to just be accepted as a human being ... please consider joining the Fat Liberation Therapy Group I run. I strongly recommend working with a HAES dietician and engaging with the Intuitive Eating model as part of the healing process.
FAT LIBERATION
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Fat: A derogatory term historically used to pathologize or demean people in larger or bigger or higher weight bodies. The word fat has been reclaimed by activists beginning in the 1960s.
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Fat liberation works to combat anti-fat bias and weight-related stigma. Fat activists treat being fat as a valid, normal, and sometimes even celebrated part of their identity. The size of people's bodies varies greatly the world over!
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Fat liberation seeks to identify and name systemic anti-fat bias as well as individual prejudices, and to unlearn internalized fat bias and oppression. Fat liberation seeks to normalize fat bodies and to appreciate and celebrate them.
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​Fat liberation is at core a social justice movement that works against anti-fat bias, oppression, and discrimination.
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It is a radical alternative to body positivity – and affirms the inherent value of all people as human beings, regardless of weight or health status.
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The fat liberation community understands and acknowledges that anti-fat bias and discrimination has powerful roots in anti-Black racism, colonialism, and classism, and that anti-fat bias and discrimination show up everywhere.