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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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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
A Letter to Health Care Providers
A Letter to Health Care Providers

I know you are working your hardest to provide the best care possible. I know you are working to improve people’s health, so that they can enjoy their lives longer. I know that you have to work within a rather broken system with short appointment times, insurance requirements, and have to work with the resources that you have available. I know that not every clinic, agency, hospital, or practice has the same resources as others.

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Accountability, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Recovery, HAES Professionals, Health At Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, Lifestyle Changes, Medical Weight Stigma, Mental Health, Research, Shame, Weight Stigma, Weight Bias, Healthcare, Health Care, Health Care Providers, Physicians, Nurses, Naturopathic Doctors, AcupuncturistsSJ ThompsonHealth Care, Health Care Providers, Physicians, Nurses, Doctors, Naturopathic Doctors, Acupuncturists, Therapists, Dietitians, Weight Stigma, Weight Loss, Eating disorders, World Eating Disorder Action Day, World Eating Disorder Day, HAES, Health At Every Size, Mental Health, Semi-starvation, Starvation, Intuitive Eating, Diet, Diets, Dieting
Financial Instability, Food Insecurity, Medication, and Intuitive Eating
Financial Instability, Food Insecurity, Medication, and Intuitive Eating

Let’s talk about Intuitive Eating. How do you navigate honoring your hunger or respecting your fullness, when you can’t afford to buy enough food? How do you enjoy the pleasure of eating, when you can’t buy food that sounds good to you? How do you enjoy the pleasure of eating, when you are worried about if you will be evicted from your home?

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Body Trust, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, HAES Professionals, Health At Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Resilience, ShameSJ ThompsonIntuitive Eating, Eating disorders, Eating disorder treatment, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Binge eating, Financial Insecurity, Food Insecurity, Food Addiction, Medication, Mental Health, ADHD, Shame, Money Shame, Embodiment, Internal Cues, Money, Hunger 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
What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 3
What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 3

In my graduate school classes, sizeism is mentioned once in the entire five years I’m a graduate student. Every single class is required to talk about marginalized identities and how whatever topic the class is focused on impacts those who are more marginalized or oppressed.  Fat people are never mentioned except in the one class one time. I know from my lived experience that fat people are oppressed and I began studying feminism and learning about the history of size oppression in college. Eating disorders are covered one day in my “abnormal psychology” class and never mentioned again. Even in my “psychology of women” class eating disorders were never mentioned and diet culture wasn’t talked about.

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Consulting, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, HAES Professionals, Health At Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, Medical Weight Stigma, Privilege, Recovery, Sizeism, Thin Privilege, Weight Stigma, Thin Shaming, Fat activismSJ ThompsonEating disorders, Eating disorder professionals, Health At Every Size, HAES, Therapists, Thin People, Thin Privilege, Thin shaming, Anorexia Nervosa, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Graduate school, Fat activist, Eating disorder treatment, Primary care doctor, Diet culture, Weight Stigma, Weight Loss, Obesity, Weight management Comments
What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 2
What About Fat Voices? Our experience with fat invisibility - Part 2

Part one kicked off the series with Claudette Largess, MA, writing about her love for Julia Louis Dreyfus, Seinfeld, and her experience writing her dissertation on Fat Acceptance. You can read it here. The series continues with part two where Sarah Thompson writes about her experience in Health at Every Size® professional spaces. . Finally, the series will wrap up with part 3 where Rachel Millner, PsyD., writes a letter to her friends and colleagues in larger bodies.

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Body Liberation, Cisheteropatriarchy, Connection, Fatphobia, Medical Weight Stigma, Privilege, Sizeism, Thin Privilege, Weight Stigma, White Supremacy, Health At Every Size®, HAES Professionals, Consulting, Diversity and InclusiionSJ ThompsonHealth Care, Health At Every Size, HAES, ASDAH, Thin Privilege, Thin People, Clinicians, Therapists, Dieticians, Diversity, Inclusion, Patriarchy, White supremacyComment