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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.

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 ThompsonDecember 12, 2018Eating 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

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.