"Body Noise" Plus Sized Existence & Other Musings
body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
Although all women’s bodies are seen as public property, my slimness allows me to say ‘follow your appetite’ without someone hurling back at me: ‘Look where that got you.’
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
is your inherent sense of self. You came here, to this planet, as unapologetic radical love. Body terrorism depends on your amnesia for its survival. Our singular focus in this chapter is to help you practice the third Peace. Making peace with your body is not about finding some obscure pathway to the peninsula of “liking my thighs.” Making peace w
... See moreSonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
She is, it turns out, thinking about the body. How we inhabit the architecture of the bodies we are given. How our bodies can be powerful and how they can be encumbrances. How they can feel inextricably linked to our identities yet how they can also misrepresent and betray us.
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
Grace in Aging
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:
To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss, inevit... See more
Journalist Krista Tippett describes an embodied form of grace—the surprising grace of aging. As our minds and bodies slow down, we make space for simple contentment:
To inhabit my body in all its grace and its flaws appears as a gift for the new/mundane bodily territory I’m on in midlife. Aging is the ultimate slow motion loss, inevit... See more
truth: the only thing that kills the slow, poisonous choke of body shame and body terrorism that dwells