#201: Trauma Hits Like a Tsunami. Healing Happens in Tiny Glimmers With Sharon Maxwell
Sharon Maxwell returns (she might hold the record!?) to talk about embracing pleasure with food and bringing fat joy into the new year.
Oh and...why body liberation is not dead, they just want us to think it is.
Tune in for more on:
- Why pleasure matters in healing
- How Sharon is learning to savor food, perhaps for the first time
- Psychedelics in Sharon's recovery
- Finding "glimmers" of joy during hard seasons
- Fat joy in the new year
- How community support helps us resist diet culture
- Body liberation as an everyday practice
- Using play as an act of resistance
About Sharon:
Sharon Maxwell (she/they) is an educator, speaker and fat activist. With compassion as a guiding principle, Sharon is a leading force in dismantling systemic anti-fat bias. She dedicates her work to eradicating weight stigma on both a social level and within healthcare settings
Find Sharon on IG: @heysharonmaxwell
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