Resources for your journey
Explore articles, exercises, and recommendations to help you build body trust, release shame, and approach change with compassion. This space is here to support you at your own pace.
Reclaiming Body Trust
In Reclaiming Body Trust, Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant share a healing framework rooted in compassion and social justice. Their work invites readers to unlearn shame, restore self-trust, and reconnect with their bodies as home.
The Body is Not an Apology
Activist and author Sonya Renee Taylor calls radical self-love a practice of justice. In The Body Is Not an Apology and its companion workbook, she offers tools for healing body shame and building collective liberation rooted in dignity and compassion.
The Eating Instinct
In The Eating Instinct, Virginia Sole-Smith unpacks how diet culture and guilt have shaped our relationship with food—and offers a compassionate path back to trust, pleasure, and body peace.
Unshrinking
Philosopher Kate Manne’s book, Unshrinking, examines fatphobia through both personal and academic lenses. She connects body shame to systems of power and invites readers toward a vision of fat liberation, justice, and self-acceptance.
Weight & Healthcare
Fat activist and researcher Ragen Chastain brings clarity and compassion to how we think about bodies, care, and justice. On her Substack Weight and Healthcare, she offers thoughtful, evidence-based writing on fatphobia, diet culture, and weight science through a fat-positive lens. Her work invites us to imagine care that honors every body—without shame or blame.
The Wellness Trap
In The Wellness Trap, Christy Harrison examines how wellness culture has drifted from care to control—and helps readers find a more grounded, compassionate path to health.
Rethinking Wellness
On the Rethinking Wellness Podcast, Christy Harrison explores how wellness culture became a source of pressure and shame—and helps listeners rediscover health grounded in care, curiosity, and trust.
Nutrition for Mortals
Hosted by weight-inclusive dietitians Matt Priven and Jen Baum, Nutrition for Mortals offers evidence-based, compassionate conversations about food and health—free from fear, fads, and judgment.
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes bring humor and heart to Maintenance Phase, a podcast that dismantles wellness myths and diet culture with smart, critical insight—and plenty of laughs along the way.
Food Psych
Christy Harrison’s Food Psych invites honest conversations about food, body image, and recovery from diet culture—offering warmth, evidence, and hope for anyone seeking peace with eating.
Rethinking Wellness
Journalist and nutritionist Christy Harrison offers grounded, research-based insight into diet culture and wellness trends through her Rethinking Wellness Newsletter. Her writing helps readers cut through the noise, question wellness fads, and build a more trusting, compassionate relationship with health and body care.
Wiser Than Me™
Wiser Than Me™ is an award-winning podcast hosted by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Each week, Julia has funny, touching, personal conversations with iconic older women who are brimming with the kind of unapologetic attitude and wisdom that only comes with age.