Working toward a cease-fire with the body we see in the mirror.

This is about someone’s relationship with their body and the resources frequently overlap with HAES. Body image includes cultural/societal messaging, weight-bias, weight-stigma, fat-positivity, race, gender, sexuality, ability, and other body-liberation topics. Body-liberation to me is freedom from oppression based on any and all seen and unseen aspects of the body, including pervasive and pernicious oppressive systems such as racism, ableism, misogyny, capitalism, patriarchy, white-supremacy, sizeism, homophobia, trans-phobia, and more.

Podcasts

• Body Grievers Club with Bri Campos

  https://bodyimagewithbri.com/podcast/

•  Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen

  https://summerinnanen.com/etr/

• Matter of Fat podcast: Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, SoundCloud. https://www.kfai.org/program/matter-of-fat

• Men, Unscripted, with Aaron Flores

  https://www.aaronfloresrdn.com/podcast

• Rachel Cole Belly Love Podcast - 10-episode capsule

  https://rachelwcole.com/belly-love

LINKS & WEBSITES

• Androgynous Bodies Come In Every Shape and Every Size: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/blog/androgynous-bodies-come-every-shape-and-every-size

• BAD BODY DAY TOOLKIT BE NOURISHED
  https://benourished.org/bad-body-day-toolkit/

• Beauty Redefined
  https://beautyredefined.org/

• The Body Is Not an Apology
  https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/

• Cake Plus Size clothing resale
  https://www.cakeplussize.com/

• Cat Polivoda (fat-affirming speaker, podcaster, businesswoman)
  www.catinspired.com

• Coach Kimberly Weiss: Body Positivity Coach

  Main website: https://www.kimberlyweiss.com

  Monthly support group for body positivity & ED recovery

  https://www.kimberlyweiss.com/monthlyhangout

• Dances With Fat, blog by Ragen Chastain
  https://danceswithfat.org/

• Dawn Serra: Sex and Relationship Coach https://www.dawnserra.com

• Everyday Feminism
  https://everydayfeminism.com/

• Harvard Implicit Bias Test
  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

• How Can Trans Folks ‘Do’ Body Positivity?
  https://wearyourvoicemag.com/trans-folks-body-positivity/

• I’m Transgender and I Need Body Positivity Too; by Sam Dylan Finch

  https://ravishly.com/2015/07/17/im-transgender-and-i-need-body-positivity-too

• Matt McGorry’s Medium article
  https://humanparts.medium.com/my-journey-toward-radical-body-positivity-3412796df8ff

• National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA)
  https://naafaonline.com/dev2/

BOOKS

• The Adonis Complex: How to Identify, Treat, and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys, by Harrison Pope, Katharine Phillips, and Roberto Olivardia 

• Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting & Got a Life by Kelsey Miller

• Big Big Love, Revised: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them) by Hanne Blank

• Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out—and Never Say Diet Again by Rebecca Scritchfield, RDH

• Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life by Elle Chase

• Manhood: The Bare Reality by Laura Dodsworth

Scholarly Articles

• Dolezal, L, and Lyons, B. Health-Related Shame: An Affective Determinant Of Health? Medical Humanities BMJ (2017). 43: 257-263. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317432413_Health-related_shame_An_affective_determinant_of_health

• Mensigner, J.L. and Meadows, A. Internalization weight stigma mediates and moderates physical activity outcomes during a healthy living program for women with high body mass index. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 30(2017) 64-72. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029217300730

• Mensinger, J. L., Calogero, R. M., Stranges, S., & Tylka, T. L. (2016). A weight-neutral versus weight-loss approach for health promotion in women with high BMI: A randomized-controlled trial. Appetite, 105, 364–374. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2016.06.006

• Pantell, M., Rehkopf, D., Jutte, D., Syme, S. L., Balmes, J., & Adler, N. (2013). Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors. American Journal of Public Health, 103(11), 2056–2062. doi:10.2105/ajph.2013.301261

• Pearl, R.L. and Puhl, R.M. (2018) Weight Bias internalization and health: a systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 19(8), 1141–1163. Retrieved from: http://www.uconnruddcenter.org/files/Pdfs/Pearl_et_al-2018-Obesity_Reviews.pdf

• Puhl, R. M., & Heuer, C. A. (2009). The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update. Obesity, 17(5), 941–964. doi:10.1038/oby.2008.636

• Puhl, R., and Suh, Y. Health Consequences of Weight Stigma: Implications for Obesity Prevention and Treatment, Current Obestiy Report, (2015) June: 4(2): 182-90. Doi: 10.1007/s13679-015-0153-z. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277615705_Health_Consequences_of_Weight_Stigma_Implications_for_Obesity_Prevention_and_Treatment

• Tomiyama, A. J., Carr, D., Granberg, E. M., Major, B., Robinson, E., Sutin, A. R., and Brewis, A. (2018). How And Why Weight Stigma Drives The Obesity ‘Epidemic’ And Harms Health. BioMed Central, 16:123, 1-6. https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5

• Wellman, J.D., Araiza A.M., Newell E.E., and McCoy S.K. Weight Stigma facilitates unhealthy eating and weight gain via fear of fat. (2018) Stigma and Health, August 2018: 3(3); 186-194. Retrieved from: https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fsah0000088

• World Health Organization Europe Weight bias and obesity stigma: considerations for the WHO European Region http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/351026/WeightBias.pdf?ua=1