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11 Jul

How somatic therapy helps individuals with eating disorders

How somatic therapy helps individuals with eating disorders
The dominant treatment model for eating disorders largely ignores the body – but what if we centred it? A small but growing variety of somatic therapists have a radical recent vision In the event you’re apprehensive about your individual or another person’s health, you possibly can contact Beat, the UK’s eating disorder charity, on 0808 801 0677 or beateatingdisorders.org.uk   Ani Waggoner has battled anorexia for 28 years. She’s been to seven different treatment facilities, and cycled out and in of recovery for her entire adult life. It wasn’t until her last residential stay, on the Renfrew Centre in Florida, that she hit a breakthrough. “Quite a lot of trauma is ingrained in my body,...
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18 May

The Fat Zine shines a light-weight on love and

The Fat Zine shines a light-weight on love and
“I met God and so they’re fat too,” reads the back cover of the second issue of The Fat Zine, Gina Tonic and Chloe Sheppard’s radical, fat-positive publication. Launched last 12 months, The Fat Zine celebrates the lives, bodies, and experiences of fat people, putting them front and centre in a way that continues to be remiss in mainstream media. Following the inaugural issue last September, issue two has now dropped – this time, with an exploration of all of the nuances and facets of affection.  A really deliberate alternative, the theme of affection is an antidote to the ‘self-isolation’ motif that ran through the primary issue and explored not only the loneliness we’ve all experienced over lockdown but in addition,...
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8 May

People should be quiet about Emily Ratajkowsi’s underarm hair

People should be quiet about Emily Ratajkowsi’s underarm hair
It’s 2019. Yet, we’re really still here policing women’s bodies and deciding whether or not they must have body hair or not. Despite countless names telling them to politely shut up, time, and time, and time again.  The newest victim of that is model Emily Ratajkowsi – who appears in the newest issue of Harper’s Bazaar US showing off her armpit hair and discussing women’s rights in an accompanying essay.  “For me, body hair is one other opportunity for ladies to exercise their ability to decide on – a alternative based on how they wish to feel and their associations with having or not having body hair,” it reads. “On any given day, I are inclined to wish to shave, but sometimes letting my body hair...
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