Body-positive journaling prompt: What is beauty?
Here is this week’s body-positive journaling prompt from Body Liberation Photos.
🎤 Help a reporter, change the media narrative and save the world
In which I describe how Health at Every Size®, fat liberation, fat acceptance, and body positivity advocates can use the Help a Reporter Out (HARO) list to change media narratives around bodies and weight. How to HARO: Help a Reporter Out, or HARO, is an email list that reporters use to find sources for stories….
Body positive boudoir FAQ: Is there a maximum age for boudoir?
When you look at boudoir photos on the internet, it’s easy to get discouraged at all the tight, toned, young bodies. To look at Pinterest, you’d think no one over 35 ever gets nekkid, or has photos taken unless they’re playing a supporting role to the young’uns or starring in an ad aimed at the retirement…
What would your life look like if you minded your own body business?
What would your life look like if you just…didn’t worry about what other people’s bodies looked like or were doing? What could you focus on if you didn’t feel the need to judge the clothing or body size or expression of the people walking past you in public? What might it look like if the…
Reframe your body: Ample | Body image resources for plus-size people
The words we use to talk about our bodies are so important, because how we describe our bodies dictates how we see our bodies.
Introducing Reframe Fridays
The words we use to talk about our bodies are so important, because how we describe our bodies dictates how we see our bodies.
This is where I put all the Yellowstone photos.
Trying to describe the wondrous enormity of Yellowstone National Park is a bit beyond me at the moment, so I’ll do it in images. If you have the chance, go. (These images are from 2019.)
Featured Body Liberation Stock contributor: Aubrey Allison
Meet Aubrey, one of Body Liberation Stock’s contributors! Here’s how Aubrey describes herself: “I’m Aubrey or Brey (she/her). I’m a fat woman who lives in Seattle with my spouse, roomie/bff, and two kitties. At just about any given time, you can find me drawing, crafting, watching/listening to true crime, eating all the gummy worms, and…
Taking COVID precautions is an act of fat allyship.
Taking COVID precautions is an act of fat* allyship. Getting vaccinated and boosted is allyship. Staying home is allyship. Not eating in restaurants is allyship. Not flying or traveling is allyship. Not going to events, concerts, conventions and other crowded places is allyship. You might be fine if you get sick, and you might have…
{Body Liberation Stock} NEW COLLECTION: Sleep Apnea & CPAP Patient
One of the first Body Liberation Stock image collections representing fat bodies in healthcare context is the new Sleep Apnea & CPAP Patient collection. According to the Mayo Clinic, “Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is a common treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. A CPAP machine uses a hose connected to a mask or nosepiece…
{Podcast Month} How businesses can welcome larger bodies on Massage Business Blueprint
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ I love digging in and talking about the practical aspects of body liberation, especially when it comes to running a business. On Massage Business Blueprint, Allissa, Michael and I discuss how all…
{Podcast Month} Fat Face Feelings: Respect for All Bodies is the New Black
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ It’s always a delight to talk with the Fat Faces, and this time we did it on the record! We dig deep into my entrepreneurial journey, why I chose to work with…
{Podcast Month} Real Health Radio with Lu Uhrich
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ “I guess that’s what’s hard for me to understand. What harm does it to do to a concern troll to start trolling the systems that are doing this? Troll the airline industry….
Unbox with me: new boudoir goodies!
I love getting packages! My calendar is once again open for body-safe, fat-positive boudoir sessions outside Seattle, WA.
{Podcast Month} Fashion for All: The SmartGlamour Podcast with Mallorie Dunn
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ “Fat people can’t be photographers.” Is that true? I’ve spent the last five years finding out, and on this episode of Fashion for All – The Smart Glamour Podcast with Mallorie Dunn…
After-Christmas sale at the Body Love Shop!
It’s a post-holiday clearance sale! Through January 3, take 20% everything in the Body Love Shop’s in-house collection with code OUTOFMYHOUSE20. The in-house collection — soon to be in your house — includes: ❄️ Zines, workbooks and journals ❄️ Handmade soaps and figurines ❄️ Buttons and enamel pins ❄️ Fine art prints ❄️ Stickers, bookmarks,…
{Podcast Month} Eating Support & Health at Every Size® Chat with Chelsea Levy Nutrition
I went way out of my comfort zone with Chelsea of Chelsea Levy Nutrition and ate on camera for a special Instagram live eating support session. It is so important to normalize fat folks eating in public. Too often, we get stares, comments or open stigma for simply doing what humans need to do: eat….
{Podcast Month} Redefining Health & Wellness with Shohreh Davoodi: Media Representation, Stock Photography and Turning Anger into Art
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ What do anger and art have in common? Shohreh Davoodi @shohrehdavoodi and I talk about it — and lots more — on episode 53 of her podcast, Redefining Health & Wellness. We…
{Podcast Month} Sarah Thunell on Kids, Body Image and Health at Every Size
Today I’m asking body-positive and Health at Every Size®-aligned nanny and parent consultant Sarah @bodypositiveparenting all about her job, including: 🚸 What does a body-positive nanny do? What does #HAES have to do with it? 🚸 What should parents look for in a nanny who will help their kids grow up with a positive body image? 🚸 What Sarah…
How to set your freelance and speaking rates
You deserve a living wage for your work. Let me say that again: You deserve a living wage for your work. Even if you’re a creative type. Even if you’re an artist. Even if your work is fun, and something you’re passionate about. Women and gender-non-conforming folks have lots of pressure on us to charge…
Body Liberation Stock is accepting contributors!
Body Liberation Stock is accepting contributors! Spread some love, make the world a better place — and get paid to do it. Unlike most of the mainstream stock image sites, we’ve got motives beyond profit margin, which means caring about contributors. We want you to make a living wage too, so you get a stunning…
{Podcast Month} Femtastic with Katie Breen: Bodies in the Media and why Representation Matters
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Over at @femtastic_podcast, Katie Breen and I talk about why it’s so important that we see representations of diverse bodies in the media, and how I use my platform to create stock imagery…
{Podcast Month} Fat Product Reviews with Chrystal Bougon
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Because I have my fat fingers in so many pies, this chat with Chrystal Bougon @chrystallee78 of Curvy Girl Lingerie and All Bodies Electrolysis touches on lots of topics! If you’ve ever…
How to use Discord for absolute beginners
As more people move from Facebook to other chat spaces, it’s time to get familiar with Discord. In this friendly and easy-to-understand workshop, we cover: » What is Discord?» How is Discord different from Facebook, Twitter or Slack?» How to log in, join servers and chat» Free vs. paid accounts» Muting, blocking and spoilers» How…
{Podcast Month} Fat Girl Finds Love with Briana Cavanaugh
For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ On the Fat Girl Finds Love Podcast, I’m talking with Briana Cavanaugh @lovedosed about fategories, luck and privilege in relationships, finding a doctor you trust, and scars in photography. Give it a listen…
{Podcast Month} Escape Diet Prison with Anne-Sophie Reinhardt: Body Liberation Through Photography
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ When I started my photography business in 2015, I had never seen or met another fat photographer. I wasn’t sure if it was even possible. (Because what we see around us tells…
17 Body-Positive Stock Photos for Parties and Celebrations
Use these beautiful plus-size stock photos from Body Liberation Stock to increase the diversity of your marketing materials, website and social media feeds.
{Podcast Month} Running Life
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ When you think of a runner, what image pops into your head? Most of us come back to the same image informed by the stock photos we see and use papers, magazines,…
🎉🎉🎉 Grand Re-Opening: Now booking boudoir sessions again! 🎉🎉🎉
It’s a holiday miracle! I’m re-opening my calendar for 2022 boudoir sessions. Book now and schedule your session starting in late January. All winter sessions will be indoors (it’s cold and wet out there!). I’m vaxxed and boostered for your safety, as I expect you to be for mine. You’ll be able to take advantage…
{Podcast Month} Rising Whole with Prim Ormanovich: Everybody Profits From You Hating Your Body
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ On this episode of the Rising Whole podcast, Prim Ormanovich @risingwholeprim and I talk about how coherency in your business comes from having an underlying ethical framework or cause, and how my…
{Podcast Month} It’s Okay to Feel: Our Beautiful Bodies with Lindley Ashline
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ This is the first podcast where I’ve ever needed to stop and ask, “Can I say this on the air?” Nōn Wels @YouMeEmpathy, Jenipher Lyn @JenipherLyn and I talk about body image…
{Podcast Month} Eff Sh*t Up Friday with Dr. Melissa Bird
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ What do boudoir photography, subscription boxes and stock photos have in common? What even is a stock photo? How does body liberation play into all this? In this video, I chat with…
{Podcast Month} RadLove Radio with Amy Rapone: Representation Shows Us Where We Belong
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ New podcast drop! I had the chance to talk with Health at Every Size®-aligned and fat-positive nutritionist Amy Rapone @radlove.nutrition on her podcast RadLove Radio @radloveradio. In this episode, we talk about:…
When you find a piece of clothing you LOVE but of course it doesn’t come in anywhere near your size
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{Podcast Month} Hell Yeah Techcast with Jenn Hume: How to use diversity on your website to change the world + grow your business
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Every single time I’m asked to be on a podcast, it’s an honor, but it’s an especially big deal to be the very first guest on an existing podcast! Jenn Hume, owner…
{Podcast Month} Eat the Rules with Summer Innanen: Healing Body Image With Photos
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Eat the Rules (formerly Fearless Rebelle Radio) has been at the top of my podcast speaking wishlist for years, and it was such an amazing opportunity to appear in episode 168 with…
{Podcast Month} Understanding Body Matters with BodyMatters Australasia: Living in a Larger Body
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ I’ve had the honor of being on a number of Australian podcasts, and every time, I wonder the same thing: What do they think about my American accent?? More importantly, it is…
{Podcast Month} Love, Food with Julie Duffy Dillon: Channeling Your Anger
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ If you’d like a shorter podcast listen, Love, Food is for you. In each episode, Julie answers a letter from a reader. As a podcast guest, I love this format because I…
{Podcast Month} Being unafraid of power with Leela Sinha on PowerPivot
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ So many of the dynamics around bodies, weight and worth are really about power, and it was fascinating to dig into those power dynamics with Leela Sinha, host of the PowerPivot podcast (not on…
Health at Every Size (HAES) Consulting & Content Marketing
People who are incorporating Health at Every Size® into their businesses are using a powerful framework to help mitigate weight stigma and fat oppression. Using or advertising HAES as part of your work, though, requires a commitment to rooting out internalized weight bias and stigma in both your own beliefs and practices, and in the…
{Podcast Month} How Activist Writing Creates Growth with Cat Pausé on the Friend of Marilyn Podcast
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ When I began writing the Body Liberation Guide, my weekly newsletter, I didn’t expect it to change my life. A compilation of the resources I was already creating, sharing some of my…
The Body Love Shop: Curated fat-positive and body-positive artwork from marginalized artists
Today I’d like to re-introduce you to the Body Love Shop! Curated fat-positive and body-positive artwork from marginalized artists in the fat, LGBTQIAP+ and BIPOC communities. The Body Love Shop features curated fat-positive and body-positive crafts and artwork from marginalized and fat artists, plus goods and products for living in a larger body. From posters…
{Podcast Month} Lindley on the All Fired Up! Podcast on Confidence Magic, Taking on Whole30 and Body Liberation Through Photos
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ Louise Adams may call her wonderful podcast All Fired Up!, but I think of my episode as a phrase a little closer to my Southern U.S. roots: I’m all het up. I…
Body Liberation Photography Client Sessions: Boudoir, portraits + small business
In addition to my work at Body Liberation Stock, I offer boudoir, portrait and small business branding photography sessions here outside Seattle, WA. Photography sets my soul on fire because through my work, people who don’t see bodies like theirs represented anywhere else get to reclaim their self image. It’s pretty amazing stuff. I believe…
{Podcast Month} Destiny’s Universe with Destiny DiMattei: Fat Liberation and Mental Health
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ One of the reasons I talk about vulnerability in business so much is that giving ourselves the grace and space to be vulnerable allows us to not expect perfection from ourselves or…
Body Liberation Stock: Changing the world with body-positive stock photos
I started Body Liberation Stock in 2017, and I’m currently the only person in the world producing positive stock photos of people in very large bodies. Body Liberation stock offers images for commercial use, including: » Social media» Websites» Blog posts» Brochures» Apps» Endless other uses You’ll find images focused on inclusion and diversity in…
{Listen} Lindley on the Entrepreneurial Outlaws Podcast with Melanie Knights: Representing yourself as a marginalized business owner
The experience of being a business owner in a marginalized body is very different from the mainstream, and it’s one I spend a lot of time thinking about. It was a pleasure discuss it with Melanie Knights on the Entrepreneurial Outlaws podcast. I love the way Melanie described our episode: We are in a period…
{Podcast Month} Body Liberation for All with Dalia Kinsey: How Being Yourself Can Change the World
✨ For the month of December, enjoy these podcast episodes while I slow down, take a breath and plan for next year. ✨ If you’ve ever met someone and instantly known you’re going to be good friends, then you’ll know how I felt when I met Dalia Kinsey. In fact, we got along so well…
{Listen} Lindley on the Nourished Circle Podcast: Weight stigma in healthcare and what providers can change today
I love talking about ending weight stigma in the real world, and how we get there on a practical level. What does that look like? Where do we go from here? In this episode of the Nourished Circle podcast, I talked with Lori Short-Zamudio about: Where weight stigma in healthcare comes from How what you…
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Lindley & Body Liberation Photos
I used to think that I was too fat to be a professional photographer. I thought that no one would hire a fat photographer, that they’d laugh at the very thought. From the safety of my corporate job, I watched people in thin bodies make other thin people’s dream images come true. In 2014, my…