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{Exclusive Event} Fat Trauma: Healing though Community and Fat Joy with Kayla Stansberry

ByLindley Ashline

Let’s dig into the trauma we accumulate as fat people in a thin-obsessed world, and do some collective healing.

Fat-positive therapist Kayla Stansberry will walk us through:

  • » Validating Fat Trauma
  • » Covert/Overt Trauma & Impacts
  • » Community Creation as Healing
  • » Embracing Emotions as Resistance

Fat Trauma: Healing though Community and Fat Joy

Saturday, November 9
4 pm Eastern/2 Central/1 Pacific

Join us for this event only, or support the Fort for access to every event and ongoing community and rewards.

Kayla (She/Her) is an Autistic, ADHD, Fat & Queer, Licensed Psychotherapist and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor. Through her content creation and advocacy efforts Kayla has become a go-to resource for body liberation.

Kayla’s lifelong experience in a fat body as well as over a decade in working with larger bodied clients has facilitated her education and specialization in Fat Trauma and Body Liberation.

Her commitment to dismantling anti-fatness in mental health motivates her advocacy work. The foundation of Kayla’s work focuses on social justice and how racism and ableism facilitates body oppression.

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Lindley Ashline

Hi there! I'm Lindley. I create artwork that celebrates the unique beauty of bodies that fall outside conventional "beauty" standards at Body Liberation Photography. I'm also the creator of Body Liberation Stock and the Body Love Shop, a curated central resource for body-friendly artwork and products. Find all my work here at bodyliberationphotos.com.

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