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social justice and this healing work
Making Your Healing Bigger Than You
One way we dismantle structures is to divest personally from them. We have the power to collapse systems if we include ourselves in the process. This process is about healing and reclaiming body trust.
Food Justice and Body Sovereignty
Many, if not most, people who worry about how nutrition impacts health spend their time judging people for their food choices or claiming that we are “being poisoned” with sugar or processed or highly palatable foods while knowing little to nothing about the systemic injustices in our food systems.
What is Your Body Trust Elevator Speech?
Body Trust is a radically different way of relating to, occupying, and caring for your body in a culture that doesn’t trust bodies.
What Does Body Trust Mean to You?
it’s easy to get swept up and away from all you are exploring here. To wander and then return is the path to reclaiming body trust.
Stories Matter: The AAP Guidelines are Harmful
We have been watching lackluster statements from leading organizations come forward reinforcing what has always been true: the eating disorder world and the weight loss industry are in bed together and it helps no one.
Center for Body Trust Opposes the New Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatricians
In January 2023, the American Academy of Pediatricians released guidelines recommending intentional weight loss for higher-weight children via “Intensive Health Behavior and Lifestyle Training” starting as early as age two with intensive behavioral approaches and drugs and surgeries starting as early as age 13.