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In The Origins of the Feelings workshop, learn the surprising truth about body image and beauty, and what we can do about it. On Saturday, January 20 at 4 pm Pacific time (PST), we’ll cover: A recording will be sent out to everyone who signs up, so register even if you can’t make it and…
A 10 page guide that highlights the 4 reasons you may be stuck in your body image.
This guide provides an overview of what body grief really is and includes Bri’s 4 part formula for healing your body grief.
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The perception of your body image is in conflict with the cognition of your body image.
If you resonate with this – you’re probably at the end of your rope. You’ve tried all the diets, you’re trying out this body positivity thing and you still feel stuck. You feel desperate for some brain space back and all of this work feels hopeless.
How does one even begin to reconstruct our thoughts of body hatred?
I’m here for you.Â
Inside the Body Grievers Course, you’ll finally learn how to live in your body, regardless of shape or size and find a community that is struggling with the same things you are.
Join us on the road to self discovery!
Movement/fitness/exercise by any definition is never an obligation or barometer of worthiness. But for fat people who want to move our bodies within a fat positive, Health at Every Size framework – whether it’s because we enjoy it, or because of the benefit(s) we get from it (even if we don’t enjoy it,) whatever our reasons, a fatphobic culture can create barriers, misinformation, and other difficulties for us. In this workshop we’ll explore tips, tricks, and information to help us move our bodies for our own reasons, within a fat positive framework. (This workshop can also be helpful to fitness pros who want to create a fat-positive practice!)
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With family gatherings, work parties, New Years bashes, New Years Resolutions, and a ton of diet ads… the holiday season can be a perfect storm of diet culture, weight stigma, and other nonsense. You’ll leave this workshop with perspectives, reframes, tips, tricks, and practical techniques to help you deal with everything from holiday diet ads to workplace weight loss talk to the family and friends food police so that you can have a happy holiday season on our own terms – whether you celebrate any holidays or not.
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There’s a lot of work to be done in the world, in order to do that work we need to remain resilient and avoid burnout. Activism can create needed change, but it can also create overwhelm, especially when we’re fighting against our own oppression. In this workshop we’ll discuss philosophies and real world strategies to turn some of that work from draining and potentially harmful, into a self-care practice that supports us and helps protect us from the effects of oppression.
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In the When Good Friends Do Bad Diets workshop, we talk about how the diet industry is doing everything it can to convince all of us to make another (ultimately doomed) weight loss attempt. Even when we aren’t fooled, often our nearest and dearest are still riding the diet roller coaster. And typically that means that they want to talk about it – anywhere and everywhere – in ways that can be anything from annoying to harmful. In this workshop we’ll talk about options for dealing with this in all the scenarios that we may find ourselves in.
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In the Dealing with Fatphobia at Work Workshop, we’ll talk about how fatphobia can create all kinds of challenges and difficulties in the workplace that fat people are left to navigate in order to simply make a living. These things aren’t our fault, but do become our problem so we’ll discuss options for navigating fatphobia at work.
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In this workshop Shelby and Ragen will discuss the intersectionality of weight stigma in healthcare with other marginalizations including racism, healthism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and more, the research around weight and health, and tips, tricks, and strategies for getting competent, evidence-based, care from healthcare practitioners, even when they, and the system they are working in, are mired in weight stigma.
In this workshop Nicola and Ragen will discuss all aspects of reproductive care for fat patients, including dealing with weight stigma at the ob/gyn, debunking myths about fat pregnancy, the basics of getting pregnant in a fat body, and information about IUI and IVF, and birth control including emergency contraception and abortion care. This talk will be both weight and gender inclusive.
In the Dealing With Fatphobia At The Doctor’s Office workshop, we discuss tips, tricks, and techniques for getting competent, evidence-based, weight-neutral (and sometimes even fat-positive!) care from doctors and other healthcare practitioners, even in a fatphobic healthcare system
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In the Overcoming Internalized Fatphobia workshop we’ll learn how to uncover the fatphobic beliefs that we’ve internalized from our fatphobic society, understand how they are affecting us, apply practical options for dealing with them and, finally, learn how to make sure we don’t internalize new fatphobia in the future. We’ll learn how to stop fighting our bodies on behalf of weight stigma, and start fighting weight stigma on behalf of our bodies.
In the Size Acceptance and Eating Disorders workshop, we’ll discuss the role of Size Acceptance, including Fat Acceptance specifically, in eating disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery.
We’ll begin by examining the messages that come to us about beauty, our bodies, and health, and how they create an environment that perpetuates disordered eating and eating disorders. We’ll discuss how using a framework of Size Acceptance and Health at Every Size prevents eating disorders and provides practical, realistic options to help those dealing with disordered eating and eating disorders, as well as anyone affected by these negative messages, to repair the damage these messages have done, and create strategies that support dealing with them moving forward including through recovery journeys and beyond.
This workshop is for anyone interested in eating disorders prevention, treatment, and recovery and is based on keynotes and workshops that I’ve presented at state and national eating disorders conferences..
There are a lot of beliefs, myths, and misconceptions that float around when it comes to the relationship between weight and health. In this workshop we’ll discuss them from science and social justice perspectives.
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In the Talking Back To Faphobia workshop, we discuss options for dealing with the fatphobia we face as we navigate the world – from responses that encourage dialog, to responses that encourage people to leave us TF alone.
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More and more, healthcare practitioners are pushing their fat patients to try weight loss drugs and/or weight loss (bariatric) surgery. But is this really healthcare, or just medical weight stigma and diet culture in a more dangerous (and expensive) form? In this workshop we’ll dive into the research around these “healthcare interventions” to look at the data (and expose the lack thereof) around efficacy and risks.
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• Breakdown of the research around common weight loss drugs, including Wegovy
• Breakdown of the research around bariatric surgery, including as a “treatment” for health issues
• Who and what is behind the research
• What led to the widespread use of these risky interventions
• What does true informed consent for these interventions include
• How to navigate discussions about these interventions with your family, friends, and healthcare provider
In the Fatphobia and Capitalism workshop, we’ll talk about how they intersect to create harm in the lives of fat people in everything from fashion to healthcare. In this talk we’ll take an introductory look at the ways that capitalism and fatphobia (intersecting with other forms of oppression) combine to create marginalization and harm, and we’ll take a deep dive into the ways that the diet industry has put their profits over fat people’s health and lives, including by hijacking the concepts of health and healthcare. Finally, we’ll discuss ways to mitigate that harm, and create change.
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In the Understanding the Research About Weight and Health, you’ll learn about existing research, tips and tricks for breaking down research, and reading media articles. Research around weight and health can be daunting, dense, confusing, and downright misleading. A mix of diet industry involvement and weight bias (from methodology to media reporting) has created a world where what “everybody knows” about weight and health is often not supported by the actual research.
In this workshop we’ll talk about the existing research around weight and health, learn techniques to evaluate media articles and studies to see past the weight bias and diet industry smoke screen and get to the truth. This workshop will deal with concepts in plain language and is for research nerds and non-research nerds alike, including those with no experience at all in research methods.
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When it comes to blood sugar management, medical weight stigma often puts higher weight people at a serious disadvantage by focusing on trying to change their body size rather than actually managing their blood sugar. In the weight-neutral blood sugar management workshop we’ll discuss weight-neutral options for managing blood sugar without diet or weight-loss talk, without restriction, without shame, and on your own terms.
In the Creating A Weight-Neutral Body Affirming Health Journey video, knowing that the weight loss industry works hard to conflate weight loss with the concept of health, so even when we realize that diets don’t work and we get off the diet roller coaster, it can be difficult to separate our diet culture past from our desire to support our body moving forward. Health is an amorphous, multifactorial concept and it’s not an obligation, barometer of worthiness, or entirely within our control. Understanding that, in this workshop we’ll discuss how we can come to our personal health journey entirely on our own terms and leave diet culture behind for good.
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The Good Fat Fight Workshop. We are never obligated to debate our right to exist. Still, we can find ourselves in the position of wanting, or needing, to make a case/debate/argue for size acceptance or the weight-neutral health paradigm with family, friends, teachers, healthcare providers, people on the internet, and more. In this workshop, you’ll learn response options for common arguments against size acceptance and weight-neutral health, as well as techniques for crafting, framing, and delivering arguments, and for protecting yourself from the weight stigma that these conversations can generate..
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It’s time to get unstuck around body image so you can give the most clear, concise care possible! I’ve been there before. Sitting with a client and freezing because I didn’t know how to address their body image trauma. Feeling that sense of dread course through my body when the realization struck me that I might not be…
How to manage the 3 most prevalant body image objections. The first option is Bri’s FREE 3 day body image training series. This is ideal for the provider who wants to further understand body image in order to manuever through the tough conversations with clients about their body image concerns. In this video training series…
This spinoff of Bri’s original professionals mini body image bundle includes all the original items AND MORE! In addition to the Beyond Body Image 101 You will also get: Bri’s High Level Master Class: Understanding Body Image from a Clinical Perspective Two 2-hour Professional Q+A sessions, slideshow and overview of all questions asked and answered…
