Healthcare should be one place that is sacred and safe to get the help you need without judgement. Doctors take an oath to do no harm, but I wonder, do they think about that when they provide subpar levels of care just because of a patient’s weight?
Read MoreI don’t know stop. I don’t know quiet. I don’t know peace. How to just sit and be. And I don’t know these things because I’ve never been taught to rest without guilt, or stop without shame
Read MoreOur minds are marvels at protecting us from things we are better off not knowing, but our bodies never seem to forget. It is as if they know that pain must be held first if there is any hope of letting it go, and so they soak it up.
Read MoreMy heartbeat quickens and my stomach churns as I imagine what could have been done to my body, what can still be done to my body.
How do I care for such a vulnerable asset?
“Vaseline darlin.”
It coats her skin, our skin, like armor.
Read MoreI never imagined that Fluff would become both my business, and an integral part to my own healing and my own journey with my body.
Read More“I am disgusted at how often I was quick to show teeth as if to say, “Don’t shoot. I am one of those good negroes.” Stretch my lips wide as I cried inside. Must fix it. Must fix mouth to say, “I’m not a problem. Forget about me.” Grin big and wide, “Look at my dimple. Isn’t it dainty? I am a woman. Protect me, too.”
Read MoreWe will never make a world where every BODY belongs if we are always centering my story, or the stories of people who look like me, live like me, and love like me. We have to do better than that. And we will.
Read More…”This story - our story - the human story… it needs a new ending. And when women write the story, the human story changes.”
Read MoreBut here is what I know about running: It. Is. Exhausting. And where do you want to go when you’re tired?
Home. You want to go home.
Read MoreAnd it all makes me wonder…. What if 10% of us decided to channel 10% of our energy away from the obsession with our bodies and toward the thing that sets us on fire.
Read More“I wish there were more pictures of me and the kids doing the everyday stuff that we did when they were little: colouring, playing games, building Lego, swimming, hiking, biking, baking, playing soccer, doing crafts, watching movies.”
Read MoreI've begun treating my body as a friend, rather than seeing it as a separate enemy that I constantly have to try to shrink and battle.
Read MoreA guest contributor shares her powerful story about body image, self-esteem, and the influence of her mother and the media. She takes us through her story from her understanding of herself as Blubber, to her development as a natural athlete, her time spent in modeling, and finally through her journey of healing her relationship with her body
Read MoreI know what it feels like to wake up one Sunday and have nowhere to go. I know the sense of loss that follows the absence of the smells and sounds that have soothed you over and over. I know what it means to miss your family and to long for your home.
Read MoreHey, Spandex. Yes, you… the one with the mic’d up headset and a mind full of inspirational quotes from your recent 2-day Les Mills training extravaganza. It’s time for us to talk. It’s about my body. Its boundaries. And your bias.
Read MoreWe cannot run from who we are forever. Either we tire and surrender. Or we die trying.
Read MoreI don’t have to be at your Christmas to know that the woman in your life needs you to see her. All of her. Exactly as she is. And then lift her a little and watch everything about the world around you get a little lighter.
Read MoreI am starting to suspect that pain - like beauty - can be exquisite because both are part of the whole human experience. However, I have very little proof because I’ve spent so much time trying to feel happy.
Read MoreThere are babies who daily face the ridicule because of their big bellies, stuck smack dab in the middle of a culture that will never stop reminding them that fat is bad.
And that’s the piece I want to land on here. I want to land on the culture, or more accurately, on the context in which we find ourselves, in order to cultivate some compassion.
Read MoreThe pace within knows when to push harder and when to pull back. The pace within understands the difference between moments of survival and moments of thriving. The pace within draws its strength directly from the heart. The pace within reminds us that we are doing it, that we will.
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