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Posts in Overwhelm
From apology to entitlement - battling body assumptions

In my corner of the world, we talk a lot about anti-fat bias or fatphobia and, more broadly, how it is to live in a body that is marginalised by dominant culture – through race, gender and sex, body size or shape, or disability.

Sometimes our conversations about anti-fat bias can take on a very theoretical and abstract form – as a systemic issue, of course we often look at it through a wide-angle lens. More recently, though, I’ve been thinking more and more of the individual impact of anti-fat bias – what it really means to live in a fatphobic culture.

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Writing a regulation recipe - an antidote to overwhelm

Whether the feeling of stuckness has been brought about through stress, loss, heightened anxiety or low mood, the central factor is that we become dysregulated; our system can feel flooded. As one young woman said in my practice room recently, ‘I’m just over it’. And we need to administer an antidote.

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