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Sarah Thompson, founder of Resilient Fat Goddess, writes about body positivity, body liberation, and fat liberation at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and eating disorders. 

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From Dog Family to Fat Community: Grieving the loss of One and Opening to the Other
From Dog Family to Fat Community: Grieving the loss of One and Opening to the Other

While I physically ache at my dog’s absence, she gave me and my body the power to recognize belonging.

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Body Liberation, Body Positivity, Body Trust, Body Story, Cisheteropatriarchy, Community, Connection, Dieting, Fat Acceptance, Fat activism, Fat Liberation, Fatphobia, HAES Professionals, Health At Every Size®, Health Care, Health Care Providers, Healthcare, Medical Weight Stigma, Privilege, Sizeism, Shame, Weight Bias, Weight Stigma, White Fragility, White PrivilegeSJ ThompsonFatphobia, Community, Fat Community, Health At Every Size, ASDAH, Pets, Dogs, White privilege, White supremacy, Academia Comments
Discovering My Sexuality as a Fat, Christian Teen
Discovering My Sexuality as a Fat, Christian Teen

I’m finalizing a presentation on the ways that sizeism and eating disorders, separately and together, intersect for trans and gender diverse folx. While researching scientific and community based articles, it really got me thinking about my experience as a kid (a lot research is focused on trans youth) coming of age while recognizing my sexuality was different than almost everyone I knew.

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Addiction, Body Story, Bullying, Community, Connection, Dieting, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Family, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Mental Health, Ohio, Pacific Northwest, Privilege, Queer, Recovery, Resilience, DepressionSJ ThompsonHomosexuality, Gay, Lesbian, Sexuality, Coming Out, Queer, Christianity, Christian, God, Bible, Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder Awareness, Substance Use Disorder, Sobriety, Recovery, Community, Connection, Depression, An, Suicide, Ment, Em, Fat, Family Comments
Expressive Writing Prompts for Fatphobia and Weight Bias
Expressive Writing Prompts for Fatphobia and Weight Bias

The dominant culture in our society favors those who are thin and dehumanizes those who are fat. We are constantly reminded of this on a daily basis. There is an entire 150 billion-dollar industry worldwide that exists because of faphobia and weight stigma. Add in approximately $3 billion for stomach amputation or stomach alteration surgery otherwise known as weight loss surgery globally. There is no escaping that people are afraid of fatness. Fatphobia: Fear of fat, fat people, and/or fatness.

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Accountability, Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Positivity, Dieting, Fat Liberation, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Sizeism, Weight BiasSJ ThompsonFatphobia, Weight Bias, Expressive Writing Prompts, Implicit Bias, Explicit Bias, Diet Industry, Weight Loss, Weight management, Weight, Weight Loss Surgery, Change, Writing Comments
Parents, Caregivers, Bodies, and Food
Parents, Caregivers, Bodies, and Food

Our relationship with the people that raised us often forms how we relate to food and body as we grow and become adults. I’ve heard that the way we are spoken to as children is what becomes our inner voice/inner critic as we become more independent from our caregivers. I don’t know if this is exactly true. What I do know is that my parents had a major influence on my relationship with food and body. Do I think they caused my eating disorder? Nope. They were doing the best they knew how with the resources they had. Plus genetics, culture, finances, and all that. There are lots of factors.

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Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Positivity, Body Story, Body Trust, Bullying, Connection, Dieting, Eating Disorders, Family, Fat Liberation, Health At Every Size®, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Resilience, Self-Care, Shame, SizeismSJ ThompsonParents, Caregivers, Mothers, Mother's Day, Food, Eating disorders, Grandma, Grandmothers, Aunts, Aunt, Family, Body Freedom, Body Liberation, Body Trust, Body Shame, Body Positivity, Embodiment, Dieting, Diet culture, Diet, Diets, Adult Children, Compassion, Self-compassion, Self-Care, Radical Self-love, Love, Children, Kids, Step-mom, Step-children, BullyingComment
How Shifting From Body Positivity to Body and Fat Liberation Changed My Life


I did not always believe that fat people had a right to eat regularly and enough food, every day.

Nope. I had so much internalized fatphobia, weight stigma and bias that I very much bought into the idea that my fat body was a problem. A BIG problem.

Which meant that I shouldn't (read: didn't deserve to) eat regularly and enough food, every day.

It was impossible for me to feel much joy or pleasure, take up space, or gasp. . .feel sexy.

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Body Liberation, Body Trust, Connection, Depression, Dieting, Fat Acceptance, Fat Liberation, Fatphobia, Intuitive Eating, Mental Health, Recovery, Resilience, Shame, Sizeism, Weight Stigma, Body Positivity, Overeaters Anonymous, Body Story, Pleasure, Self-CareSJ ThompsonBody Positivity, Body Trust, Body Shame, Binge eating, Restricting, Weight Stigma, Overeaters Anonymous, Fat, Fatphobia, Fat Positivity, Fat Liberation, Fat Acceptance, Self-compassion, Self-Care, Social Media Comments
I Didn't Know I Had An Eating Disorder
I Didn't Know I Had An Eating Disorder

It was easy to know in high school when I was starving myself, using laxatives not as prescribed, and making myself throw up that I most likely had an eating disorder. This was the way I saw them represented in after school specials, and documentaries in health class. Though when I started seeing a therapist at 16, I was never told I had an eating disorder. I was never offered eating disorder treatment.

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Addiction, Body Liberation, Body Trust, Cisheteropatriarchy, Dieting, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Exercise, Fat Acceptance, Fat Liberation, Lifestyle Changes, Mental Health, Privilege, Queer, Recovery, Weight Stigma, White PrivilegeSJ ThompsonEating disorders, Eating Disorder Awareness, Binge Eating Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, Atypical Anorexia, Food addiction, Fat Acceptance, Fatphobia, Fat Liberation, Fat, Poor, Food Stamps, Recovered, Overeaters Anonymous Comments
I Thought I Was Taking Back My Power
I Thought I Was Taking Back My Power

I really did think that each time would be different. I really thought that I would fall into the 5% of people that would be able to maintain significant weight loss long term. I wanted to be anyway. I did NOT want to accept that I was just your average person who couldn’t maintain weight loss over time.

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Body Liberation, Body Trust, Cisheteropatriarchy, Eating Disorder Recovery, Eating Disorders, Fat Acceptance, Fat Liberation, Pacific Northwest, Queer, Recovery, Resilient Fat Goddess, Shame, Sizeism, Weight Stigma, Winter, Dieting, Lifestyle Changes, ExerciseSJ ThompsonDieting, Diet, Diets, Eating disorders, Power, Pacific Northwest, Seaside, Assimiliation, Weight Loss, Weight Stigma, Weight