Show Notes

Key Points:

• Content warning: this letter writer describes a trauma involving a fatal car accident.
• Food can be a great protector that keep you feeling safe with all the chaos and unpredictable life events.
• Diets can be a great distraction to all the shitty things in the world.
• Women are put in a place to value dieting, the perfect body which keeps women from being their true self.
• Check Julie out at FNCE with Jennifer McGurk and Rebecca Scritchfield presenting on the Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders.
• Church of the Fit Body: whenever something crappy happening we women are encouraged to distract ourselves by focusing on our appearance.
• The culture needs to change for us to ultimately heal our relationship with food.
• You will experience more push back to live body positive if in a fat body.
• You could continue to diet/binge or give up dieting and live with choosing to not diet. Both will promote pain.
• Your decision: continue to be distracted by dieting or do you want to be present?

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