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Sarah Thompson, founder of Resilient Fat Goddess, writes about body positivity, body liberation, and fat liberation at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and eating disorders. 

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Why Eating Disorder Treatment is Failing Us All
Why Eating Disorder Treatment is Failing Us All

I do not know if there is an in-patient eating disorder treatment center that currently exists that is safe for all people with non-dominant systemic identities at all levels of the organization. I do not know of an eating disorder treatment program for higher level of care where I as a fat, queer, non-binary person would feel safe to attend.

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Accountability, Addiction, Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Story, Body Trust, Cisheteropatriarchy, Diversity and Inclusiion, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Health Care, Health Care Providers, Healthcare, Medical Weight Stigma, Mental Health, Ohio, Overeaters Anonymous, Physicians, Privilege, Queer, Recovery, Resilience, Shame, Sizeism, Thin Privilege, Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, White Privilege, White SupremacySJ ThompsonEating disorders, Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorder Awareness, Eating disorder treatment, Social Justice, Anti-oppression, Homophobia, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, Northeast Ohio, Ohio, Nalgona Positivity Pride Comments
From Dog Family to Fat Community: Grieving the loss of One and Opening to the Other
From Dog Family to Fat Community: Grieving the loss of One and Opening to the Other

While I physically ache at my dog’s absence, she gave me and my body the power to recognize belonging.

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Body Liberation, Body Positivity, Body Trust, Body Story, Cisheteropatriarchy, Community, Connection, Dieting, Fat Acceptance, Fat activism, Fat Liberation, Fatphobia, HAES Professionals, Health At Every Size®, Health Care, Health Care Providers, Healthcare, Medical Weight Stigma, Privilege, Sizeism, Shame, Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, White Fragility, White PrivilegeSJ ThompsonFatphobia, Community, Fat Community, Health At Every Size, ASDAH, Pets, Dogs, White privilege, White supremacy, Academia Comments
Discovering My Sexuality as a Fat, Christian Teen
Discovering My Sexuality as a Fat, Christian Teen

I’m finalizing a presentation on the ways that sizeism and eating disorders, separately and together, intersect for trans and gender diverse folx. While researching scientific and community based articles, it really got me thinking about my experience as a kid (a lot research is focused on trans youth) coming of age while recognizing my sexuality was different than almost everyone I knew.

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Addiction, Body Story, Bullying, Community, Connection, Dieting, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Family, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Mental Health, Ohio, Pacific Northwest, Privilege, Queer, Recovery, Resilience, DepressionSJ ThompsonHomosexuality, Gay, Lesbian, Sexuality, Coming Out, Queer, Christianity, Christian, God, Bible, Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder Awareness, Substance Use Disorder, Sobriety, Recovery, Community, Connection, Depression, An, Suicide, Ment, Em, Fat, Family Comments
Parents, Caregivers, Bodies, and Food
Parents, Caregivers, Bodies, and Food

Our relationship with the people that raised us often forms how we relate to food and body as we grow and become adults. I’ve heard that the way we are spoken to as children is what becomes our inner voice/inner critic as we become more independent from our caregivers. I don’t know if this is exactly true. What I do know is that my parents had a major influence on my relationship with food and body. Do I think they caused my eating disorder? Nope. They were doing the best they knew how with the resources they had. Plus genetics, culture, finances, and all that. There are lots of factors.

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Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Positivity, Body Story, Body Trust, Bullying, Connection, Dieting, Eating Disorders, Family, Fat Liberation, Health At Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Resilience, Self-Care, Shame, SizeismSJ ThompsonParents, Caregivers, Mothers, Mother's Day, Food, Eating disorders, Grandma, Grandmothers, Aunts, Aunt, Family, Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Trust, Body Shame, Body Positivity, Embodiment, Dieting, Diet culture, Diet, Diets, Adult Children, Compassion, Self-compassion, Self-Care, Radical Self-love, Love, Children, Kids, Step-mom, Step-children, BullyingComment
How Shifting From Body Positivity to Body and Fat Liberation Changed My Life


I did not always believe that fat people had a right to eat regularly and enough food, every day.

Nope. I had so much internalized fatphobia, weight stigma and bias that I very much bought into the idea that my fat body was a problem. A BIG problem.

Which meant that I shouldn't (read: didn't deserve to) eat regularly and enough food, every day.

It was impossible for me to feel much joy or pleasure, take up space, or gasp. . .feel sexy.

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Body Liberation, Body Trust, Connection, Depression, Dieting, Fat Acceptance, Fat Liberation, Fatphobia, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Resilience, Shame, Sizeism, Weight Stigma, Body Positivity, Overeaters Anonymous, Body Story, Pleasure, Self-CareSJ ThompsonBody Positivity, Body Trust, Body Shame, Binge eating, Restricting, Weight Stigma, Overeaters Anonymous, Fat, Fatphobia, Fat Positivity, Fat Liberation, Fat Acceptance, Self-compassion, Self-Care, Social Media Comments