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The Body Image Therapist YYC

I am a licensed therapist and clinical social worker in Calgary, AB with a passion for sharing information about body image with the wider community.

I am also a member of the facial difference community and work with individuals with facial differences. I am a licensed therapist and clinical social worker specializing in body image, trauma and eating disorder work. I have over 12 years of experience in my field and am passionate about providing great service and information across Alberta and Ontario where I am licensed.

04/15/2026

Watching someone you love stay in a hard relationship can take a toll. 🤍

Here are some ways to get through it without ruining the friendship or your mental wellbeing. ✨

04/12/2026

You are body rich when you stop fighting yourself long enough to notice: your body showed up today. It digested your food, carried you through hard moments, and held you while you felt things deeply. That's worth something.

Your worth was never about the size of your waist or the number on the scale. It was always about who you are when you walk into a room, how you love people, and how you come back to yourself when things get hard.

Start there. ✨️

04/10/2026

Nobody talks about the identity crisis that comes with eating disorder recovery — but it's one of the hardest parts 💀

You can be doing all the "right things" and still feel completely lost. that's not you failing. that's you actually changing. keep going 🤍

04/08/2026

Athletic performance > aesthetics — your body is a tool, not a display

04/02/2026

ARFID isn’t “picky eating.”
It’s a real, treatable eating disorder — and I work with it directly.

I offer CBT-AR (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for ARFID) in my practice.
It’s structured, targeted, and actually built for how ARFID shows up.

If food feels overwhelming, limited, or anxiety-driven — this is the work.

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03/28/2026

March in Canada and Carl is NOT okay 🥶

Seasonal depression is real — even when spring is "technically" coming. Your body isn't broken, it's just been cold and grey for five months. Carl agrees. He has been staring out the window with dead eyes since November.

Swipe for 6 gentle tips to help you through it. Carl could not be reached for comment as he is currently under a blanket. 🐾

03/23/2026

BPD isn’t a life sentence—it’s a pattern that can be understood and changed.

It’s often rooted in early trauma, abandonment, and attachment wounds that shape how someone experiences emotions and relationships. With the right support, people can build emotional regulation, develop more secure attachment, and create more stable, fulfilling connections. 🧠💛

03/18/2026

My husband and I watched the Louis Theroux Manosphere documentary and I’ve been sitting with my thoughts.

Here’s where I landed.

Men being proud of who they are, embracing their masculinity, wanting to provide for or protect their families?

That has never been the problem ✨️

What worries me is how some of these messages are packaged — and what they’re built on.

I work with a lot of men in my practice who are genuinely struggling with who they’re supposed to be in today’s world. They’re navigating mixed messages about masculinity, value, and worth.
Rigid gender roles hurt men too. When we reduce masculinity to dominance, stoicism, and financial success, we leave very little room for the full human being underneath.

Showing up as a man isn’t just about providing financially 💰

It’s about being emotionally present — with your partner, your children, and the people you love.
That isn’t weakness. That’s the work. 🤝

And here’s the part I keep coming back to:
If your sense of worth as a man requires someone else to be worth less… that’s not strength. That’s a wound.

Young men searching for identity deserve better answers than that.

Real self-esteem doesn’t come from domination.
It comes from self-knowledge, healing, and loving your people well.

That’s the masculinity worth celebrating. 💙

💬 Did you watch it? I’m curious what others thought.

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03/17/2026

Living aligned with your values means your choices actually reflect what matters most to you — not what others expect, not what fear pushes you toward, and not what feels easiest in the moment.

When your actions match your values, life tends to feel more grounded, clear, and authentic. It’s less about perfection and more about intentional living.

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03/12/2026

I believe it is important that in the body image field we do ask for honesty and accountability around GLP 1 use and the prevalence with which it is occurring these days ✨️

A growing amount of celebrities are normalizing "ozempic bodies" and lacking honesty to their followings as to how this was achieved. The result for young people is they are normalizing these bodies and engaging in very unhealthy means to achieve unrealistic weight loss *and in many cases muscle wasting* that is occurring 💓

Bodies are not fashion commodities. As a 90s girl i have seen this before and I cannot stay silent on it any longer.

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03/10/2026

Your anxiety loves to live in the future.
“What if this goes wrong?”
“What if that happens?”
“What if I’m not ready?”

But pause for a second and ask yourself: Is this actually serving me?

Future-focused anxiety often isn’t solving anything. It’s just your brain rehearsing problems that haven’t happened.

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03/09/2026

This International Women's Day, we honor every woman's unique journey. To the woman navigating infertility, healing from divorce, changing careers, grieving a loss, battling anxiety, or finding herself again - your struggle is valid.

Every woman you encounter is fighting battles you know nothing about. She might look put together while falling apart inside. Your pain doesn't need to be compared to anyone else's. Your journey is unique. Your feelings are real. Your experience matters.

In a world that tells us to be perfect and productive, it takes courage to admit when we're struggling. Your vulnerability is your strength. You are seen. You are valued. You are enough. Happy International Women's Day. 💗

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