Curate Your Feed with Diverse Body Positive Accounts on Instagram

Curate Your Feed With Diverse Body Positive Accounts on Instagram to Support Eating Disorder Recovery in California [Image description: screenshot of instagram post from resilientfatgoddess; a trans non-binary person smiling with the title, "Curate Your Feed With Diverse Body Positive Accounts on Instagram"]

Diverse Instagram Accounts Can Support Recovery by SJ Thompson Belmonte, Resilient Fat Goddex and Lauren Muhlheim, Eating Disorder Therapy LA It’s time to curate your feed to have a more diverse social media feed. “Body positivity can’t be just about thin, straight, cisgendered, white women who became comfortable with an additional ten pounds on their …

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Can’t Horseback Ride Because of Your Size? That Might Just Be a Load of “Horse Shit.”

Horseback riding when fat [Image description: back of a fat person with long flowing blonde hair and a purple shirt, riding a horse]

  By Carolyn Comas, LCSW, CEDS-S, Clinical Supervisor Can you horseback ride if you are fat? Navigating the world in a fat body can be frustrating and may feel disheartening. There are, unfortunately, some activities and spaces that do not accommodate people in large bodies. When someone in a big body encounters spaces that do …

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Eating and Body Image Therapy Group for Men

Eating and Body Image Therapy Group for Men

We are excited to announce our Eating and Body Image Therapy Group for men beginning in September 2022 over Zoom. This group is for men who are looking for a supportive space to discuss issues around body and eating and/or are looking to add group therapy to their eating disorder recovery. If you are tired …

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Sweatin’ for the Wedding: Say, “I don’t.”

Sweating for the Wedding? Say: I Don’t. Image description: photo of the ankles and feet of a bride in a white gown with white shows and a groom with black pants and black shoes] Represents a potential person in Los Angeles, California preparing for a wedding.

by Carolyn Comas, LCSW, CEDS-S Wedding Diet? Just say No! In November 2018, my boyfriend proposed to me. It was one of the most exciting days of my life thus far. With a proposal comes the next exciting chapter: wedding planning. For many brides-to-be, this entails finding that perfect gown. Sadly, although not surprising, once …

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Say Cheese! How to Be in And Celebrate Photos

Body Avoidance and Photos in eating disorder recovery in California [Image description: photo of 4 diverse people in "volunteer" shirts taking a selfie] represents a potential client with an eating disorder in Los Angeles, California staying in the photo

Body Avoidance and Photos In today’s digital age, photos of ourselves are everywhere. For many people with eating disorders and body image issues, photos can be a source of distress. Do you normally avoid photos? Do you refuse to let people take or post photos of you? Do you hide in the back when asked …

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Fat Positive Photography

Fat Positive Photography in Eating Disorder Recovery in Los Angeles, California [Image description: photo of a larger bodied woman in a swim suit doing a yoga pose on the beach] Represents diverse images for people in eating disorder recovery

I’ve recently returned from the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) Conference and I’m reflecting on all I’ve learned. I’ve wanted to share and further explore Substantia Jones’ keynote, “Fat Visibility Through Photography: the Who, the How, and the Hell Yeah.” Jones is a photographer, a “Fat Acceptance Photo-Activist,” and the proprietor of the …

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Checking Our Own Weight Biases as Parents

  Weight bias is a preference for thinness. In the words of psychologist Ashley Solomon, Psy.D., CEDS, “Weight bias is insidiously interwoven into the fabric of our culture.” Like many of us, I grew up in a family that possesses a great deal of weight bias. When I gained weight just before puberty my mother …

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When Is It OK To Comment On Another Person’s Body?

Body Comments

Body Comments: When Is It OK To Comment On Another Person’s Body? Spoiler Alert: Never! By Elisha Carcieri, Ph.D., staff psychologist As a relatively new mom of an 11-month-old, I’m on the tail end of almost two years of a complete metamorphosis. In nine months my body grew to accommodate another human, delivered that human …

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