I NEED TO BATHE IN THESE WORDS She said… I need to bathe in these words. They are new. They are unfamiliar I don’t yet know how to float and breath and soak in these new words. Words that remind me That my body is loveable as it is That my body is worth caring for...
I FEEL FAT Sitting in my therapist’s too-soft sofa I’d exclaim with deep despair. I feel fat And patiently, week after week she’d say: If you weren’t feeling fat, what would you be feeling? It took me months to understand the question. What do...
DID YOU DIVORCE YOUR BODY? What I want to say to you if you divorced your body somewhere along the way and don’t know how to reconnect. I want to say… I get it. I divorced my body early on. I was 9, when my body started to feel like it wasn’t a...