Mind Body Money

11/05/2021

“How many of the ‘challenges’ around being in a fat body would be mitigated if superfat people were treated like human beings? Instead of trying to make us thinner, what if healthcare providers just tried to care for us?” —Julianne Wotasik, Food Psych Weekly newsletter
In next week's edition of the newsletter, my wonderful admin assistant Julianne answers a reader question about whether there can really be health at *every* size, and how healthcare providers can truly help improve the well-being of people at the highest end of the weight spectrum.
Sign up to get it at christyharrison.com/newsletter (link in bio). It’ll arrive on Monday morning, and meanwhile you’ll get a special bonus edition right when you subscribe
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02/21/2021

Know yourself. Know your value. Guide your life choices based on your inner voice not what others think you should do. Thank you, Stacey Abrams!

09/28/2020

05/13/2020

“Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do — can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.”

Barbara Sher

02/25/2020

Beautiful and informative video.

For the second year in a row, NEDA and Instagram collaborated on a video for National Eating Disorders Awareness ( ) Week. Featurin...

02/08/2020

Intuitive eating is the process of deciding what, when, and how much to eat by relying on your body's unique needs and natural cues.

01/25/2020

Watch now or save for a moment when you could use some guidance and support to reduce a stressful experience that is swirling around in your mind and body.

A kind and gentle video that reminds you how to quiet the noise and step into self-compassion.

I love the resources of The Greater Good Science Center based out of UC Berkeley. Check out their online library of articles. You’ll be able to link to their site through clicking this article.

When you're caring so much for other people, how do you deal with your own stress? Psychiatrist Elizabeth Guinto tries a practice to be kinder to herself. Audio from The Science of....

01/23/2020

Editor's Note: CW for behaviors mentioned.

12/31/2019

Focusing on your weight can be detrimental to your health!

Use this card when you visit any medical professional/hospital where there is the chance they will ask you to step onto a scale.

Here is a link where you can sign-up to receive 8 cards for free. https://more-love.org/free-dont-weigh-me-cards/

10/25/2019

This brings up much joy for young people because they have Lizzo to inspire them! She is wildly talented and a gorgeous example of ahmazing in a larger female body.

Watching will make you smile.

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/marching-band-plays-lizzo-juice/

A US university marching band covered Lizzo’s ‘Truth Hurts’, and has made the world a much better place.

08/30/2019

Full story here: http://idaho-style.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-stand-for-self-love.html Based on a social experiment by The Liberators International (http://www.theliberators.com.au/) Artist:…

08/16/2019

I have read many posts about Weight Watchers creating a program for children to diet. Many people find this incredibly distressful. I think the program can cause harm. I also see an opportunity for this conversation to get more attention. Teaching people to rely on external “programming” vs. listening to our own bodies is an important topic I’d like to see elevated in our national discourse. I wonder if the backlash on WW could serve to highlight Intuitive eating as a better goal than “smallness”. Fear of fatness is palpable. It’s so deeply ingrained in our culture it will be a profound healing if we can root it out. The only way we can help root it out of our culture is to lovingly offer ourselves compassion for where it still exists in us. Many people were triggered by the Weight Watchers announcement. For many of us it is a reliving of childhood trauma and body shame learned very young. If this was your experience, consider offering your younger self some love and acceptance. This is a pretty standard “reparenting” technique used by therapists. You as the adult now, can access the child-you and speak to yourself lovingly. I did this this week as I remembered feeling a great deal of body shame as a 6 year old. The shame dissipates when we offer ourselves this gift. I’m not traumatized by fat phobia anymore. This is healing. This is freedom. This is available to all of us. And as healed humans, I really think we can heal the world. 💚💖💙

07/31/2019

https://www.self.com/story/we-really-need-to-stop-complimenting-people-on-weight-loss

First of all, it reinforces crappy social norms.