Recently, I have been looking through old photos, searching for one from a trip to Scotland several years back (I found it! This is me, on the shores of Loch Ness). As I was searching, I saw SO MANY photos that I never posted or shared with friends and loved ones because I ‘looked fat’.
These were pictures from small moments to HUGE life events. It made me sad…and mad. Mad that I let diet culture make me think being fat was the worst thing that a person could be. Sad that I was so terrified of being seen just as I was that I couldn’t share or celebrate events, experiences and memories.
And the worst part was that I remember being terrified to attend most of those events, so it wasn’t just that I wasn’t posting pictures, I was letting diet culture ruin my experiences WHILE I was experiencing them in real time.
Or even worse than the worst (if that’s a thing), sometimes, I was in such a bad place with my body that many times it was just easier to opt-out and not even try to show up. WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!
Now that I *actually* live in a larger body, I can tell you that I’m 100% done with that garbage. I take the picture and share it (not always on social media, but that’s not because I hate what I see). I do the thing, I participate fully, I CONNECT. If you would have told me that I would be so SO happy and FREE just a few short years ago, I never would have believed you, and I probably would have burst into tears and crawled into bed for the rest of the day. Yep, not great.
That’s why I feel so passionate about this work. I have my LIFE BACK, maybe for the 1st time since I was VERY little. I WANT THAT FOR YOU!
If you are struggling, I promise there IS a way out. You can be happy and free. You can do the thing!
If you’d like to know HOW and receive support from me along the way, sign up for the waitlist for my monthly membership. Once you join, you get SO MUCH support, not just from me, but from peers going through the process, just like you.
Membership is only open for a short time, then will close to new members for a few months, so we can get settled in and go a bit deeper together as a group. That means that you don’t want to delay, or you’ll miss this change, so make sure that you join the waitlist so you don’t miss the window.