Rising lotus

09/29/2021

08/28/2021

“Healing rarely comes in the form we expect or desire. More often, healing comes through acknowledgment of the pain and a willingness to show up for the daily glimpses of beauty along the way.” https://wrt.lv/3gjT5je

08/24/2021

There is power in writing our stories down. There is power in being witnessed and in sharing our body stories with others.
There is healing power in giving the gift of your story to yourself, and to those who are sorting through their own, reckoning with and reclaiming pieces and parts.

We encourage you to tell your story as it feels most authentic to you.
Get a journal, some art supplies, or perhaps your laptop, and just start writing. Don’t think too much about what comes out.
Allow thoughts, images, words, or phrases to flow onto the page.
As Anne Lamott says, “just write a sh*tty first draft.”

We want to hear your story. It is needed❤️

photo by Charlein Gracia via Unsplash
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An image of three young children sitting in the grass side by side. The youngest child on the end is examining their hands. Text reads: Body Trust Tuesday - What are your earliest memories of having a body?

08/18/2021

People don’t have to agree with boundaries for you to execute them. Boundaries are meant to keep you safe. And they are meant to keep you comfortable. Your comfort may make others uncomfortable, and that’s okay.

07/25/2021

All of this is so important!

07/18/2021

REPOST: image & caption by Virginia Newman (TrustingBodies on Instagram) ❤️ https://bit.ly/3ewdfFO
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via Virginia Newman: "Diet culture and healthism are *not* about health! We need to think more critically about how food and movement impact our whole health.

In the meantime, know that your out loud comments about food and or your body are a problem and causing harm. Health and bodies are way more complex than what the dominant culture has portrayed them as. Please consider this, people’s health, wellbeing, and lives are being impacted by how we’ve contorted health into simple equations that never worked.

(Eat what you want and be quiet about it, don’t make assumptions about people and their bodies, asking for so many people!!)"
https://bit.ly/3ewdfFO
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Image description: a cream background with light pink paint scribble in the background of cursive text: people are starving and or staying with harmful eating disorders because that feels safer than losing the access and safety that comes with the proximity to thinness.

07/18/2021

06/29/2021

It's not your responsibility to be in control of the lives of other people. You cannot control what others do, even when what they're doing is harmful to themselves. Enabling is done out of love. However, it stops people from being able to take responsibility for their life.

To unlearn enabling, you must learn how to set clear boundaries. Placing limits on loved ones is hard, especially when you feel that your help is necessary. You can help people but do so in ways that are not harmful to you.

Repeat After Me
I can love without enabling.
I can help in ways that don't harm me.
My mental health is essential.

06/29/2021

It's important to listen and provide support but not at the risk of giving up your own identity and self-worth!
words: lisa olivera

06/28/2021