By Mallory Creveling — 2020
These body-positive influencers lead by example and want to help you become more confident in your own skin, too.
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CLEAR ALL
Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.
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Our culture has taught us that we do not have the privilege of being vulnerable like other communities.
To say that fatphobia is not connected to anti-Blackism is to not understand the deep-rooted history between the two.
The Latinx community is just as vulnerable to mental illness as the general population, but faces disparities in treatment.
Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.
“When I started my undergraduate degree in psychology, my grandmother said she was afraid I would become pagal (“crazy”) because of it.
I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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Learn about the difference between body positivity and body neutrality.
I had spent years disliking my body and now I would give anything to have it back!
The scar represented the loss of my younger self’s sense of invulnerability, and — no surprise — triggered a fear of death.