07/24/2024
You cannot look at someone and assess their health status or fitness level. Research has actually shown, time and time again, that fitness and fatness coexist.
For many people we work with, the idea of moving their body brings them face to face to what it has meant to live in their body: the stigma and trauma, the lack of privilege and access, the changes in physicality, fitness, ability/disability.
What’s happened to many of us in terms of movement requires a bending towards forgiveness to really acknowledge our body story and begin to externalize the real harm in the culture that has interrupted your relationship with your body and with movement. Be gentle with yourself. What would be like to reclaim a sense of agency with movement so you can determine what feels best for you and your unique body?
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
A Body Trust Tuesday graphic with a light beige background and two wavy shapes in the top right and bottom left corners. The wavy shapes are yellow and a turquoise mint color. In the center of the graphic are the words, “Fitness doesn’t have a look; people of all weights, shapes, and sizes run marathons, practice yoga, dance, climb mountains, box, swim, and lift weights.”
