Embody Love Workshop

Do you struggle with your relationship to your body?
Are you ashamed of your body?
Are you ashamed you have shame about your body?
Do you suffer from negative body image?
Is your sense of self-worth or confidence influenced by your body shape, size, or weight?
Does your sense of self-worth or confidence improve or diminish depending on how your body looks?
Do you want to stop going on endless diets, but you’re struggling with how to accept the body you’re in?
Do you wish you felt content in your body no matter your size/weight?
Do you want to treat yourself and others better regardless of shape/ability/size?
Do you want to deepen your empathy and humanity towards yourself and others?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, this Body Acceptance Workshop is for you!

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This Body Acceptance workshop is for Adults.

Younger participants are still encouraged to apply as there may be other programs that are appropriate for them.

Why?

We have a huge issue in this country: Fatphobia.

I can’t tell you how many people I know who don’t participate fully in their lives because of fatphobia.

I want to help you be in your life: I want you to go the party, be in the picture, eat the treat, apply for the job you really want, go to the audition, date, dance, wear the clothes you want, move your body, swim, go for your dreams and PARTICIPATE IN YOUR OWN PRECIOUS LIFE. I want to help you do all of this and more.

Very few people are addressing (or are even acknowledging) fatphobia. Most people choose to run from it or worse, are so entrenched in it, they can’t even recognize it. No other issue has had more power or control over my life than the shame, hatred and discomfort of my own body. I started hating my body when I was 8 years old. I developed an eating disorder a few years later. I lost a dear friend to anorexia a few years after that. My relationship to my body is something I’ve struggled with my entire life. Unfortunately, I do not carry a unique story. Hating our bodies is not only culturally accepted, it is encouraged. We hate our bodies because of the rampant and systemic fatphobia we have had engrained in us our entire lives.

Fatphobia is prevalent and deeply imbedded in our culture. Diet Culture is a $72 billion dollar industry that thrives on you hating yourself and spending your hard-earned money on changing and “improving” yourself. We don’t have a sustainable or ethical method of weight loss available to us. Diets (aka Programs or “Lifestyle Changes”) don’t work. 95% of people who diet to lose weight will gain back all the weight they lose within 1 to 5 years. 67% of those people gain back more than they lost. Let me say that again for the people in the back: NINETY-FIVE PERCENT OF DIETS FAIL long-term. Would you say yes to riding a rollercoaster where the seatbelt fails 95% of the time?!

Yet this $72 billion-dollar industry continues to thrive because it’s not the diet’s fault if you gain back the weight – it’s YOURS. You lack willpower. You weren’t strong enough or dedicated enough. You were too lazy and weak. And sadly, many people who sell these programs have been duped themselves. They have been taught (and now believe) that the diet only fails because those participating are morally inferior to them.

Ultimately, diet culture depends on you failing and blaming yourself. It’s deeply invested in ensuring the cycle of weight-cycling and yo-yo dieting continues so that they have a built-in revenue stream of you returning again and again to do it “right” this time. Diets are designed to FAIL.

95% of people who diet gain back all the weight they lose within 1 to 5 years of finishing the diet. 67% of those people gain back more than they lost.

Now is the time to stop this cycle of shame and be the change we wish to see for ourselves and future generations.

Will You Join Me?

The Mission of the Course:

Dismantle Fatphobia and Diet Culture.
Help you participate fully in your life in the body you inhabit NOW. No more hiding. No more waiting.
An exploratory space to learn to accept and respect your body through its natural changes and fluctuations.
Identify and fight against social norms of idealized attractiveness and thinness, and the conflation of thinness and general worth.
Speak the unspeakable. Live in your truth.
Be seen. Be heard. Be brave.
Build community.

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Imagine what we could do if we didn’t spend
so much time, money, and energy hating our own bodies?

General Information

Themes and topics

Through group discussions, reading, exercises, text, free-style dance, we will explore themes and topics such as:

Going After Your Dreams
Participating Fully in Your Life
Fatphobia
Body Acceptance/Body Image
Health and the Moralization of Health
Diet Culture
Shame
The Discrimination and Oppression of Fat Bodies
Navigating Medical Fatphobia
Improving Relationship to Food and Exercise
Owning Your Story and Identity
Identifying and Shifting Belief Systems
Navigating Fatphobia with Family and Friends
Building Community
Fat Activism

Where?

Virtually via Zoom

WHEn?

Starts Thursday, April 6, 2023
Ends Thursday, June 8, 2023

How Long IS the Workshop?

10 consecutive weekly sessions

How long is each session?

90 minutes though please hold two hours to allow for flexibility with group discussion.
Start time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm PST/5:00 pm – 6:30 pm MST/6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CST/7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST with access to a Private Facebook Group to ask questions and get support between sessions.

Please note, there will be weekly homework in addition to the weekly session.

Requirements?

This small group workshop is for Adults.
In order to create a safe and complete experience for participants, class size is limited and participation requires a Zoom/Skype/Face-time interview prior to acceptance.

Limited Availability!

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About Kelsie

(she/her/hers) Kelsie is a Body Acceptance Coach who helps those who struggle with negative body image to dismantle fatphobia and love themselves through radical mindset change and body acceptance. Kelsie is an activist who is committed to serving oppressed, marginalized, and underserved communities with the mission to dismantle systems of body oppression. She aims to cultivate community while empowering those around her to build self-esteem, develop their voice, live in their truth, and gain the confidence to participate fully in their lives.

Participate fully in your life in the body you inhabit NOW! No more hiding. No more waiting.