I just finished the Season 3 finale of Shrinking, the current top Apple TV show starring Harrison Ford, Jason Segel, and Jessica Williams as a trio of therapists in a group practice in LA. There’s been a lot of positive coverage lately about the way Ford depicts...
Who gets called “brave”- and who gets erased? A recent New York Times opinion video frames a former body-positive influencer as “brave” for rejecting weight-inclusive messaging and pursuing intentional weight loss in the name of health. The caption suggests that with...
A Modern-Day Bread and Circus, Interrupted Earlier this month, as millions gathered around televisions, snacks, and group chats for the spectacle that is the Super Bowl, something unexpected happened. In the middle of the country’s most-watched sporting event- a...
With Valentine’s Day approaching, I’ve been thinking a lot about love, attraction, and what it means to feel desirable in a fat body. Yesterday, a client shared something that stayed with me: a previous boyfriend told her he was no longer attracted to her after she’d...
I’ve been living abroad for over two years now, far from Rhode Island, far from the places that shaped me. And yet when I learned about the recent mass shooting at Brown University, my body reacted as if I were right there. I wasn’t in direct danger the way people I...
With Gratitude, Care, and Some Gentle Reminders Every Thanksgiving in my family, before we eat anything, we go around the table and share what we’re grateful for. It’s a tradition I love, and as we settle into the holiday today, I want to share my deep gratitude for...
I sobbed for ten minutes straight at the end of I Like Me, the new John Candy documentary. And again when I watched it a second time. I cried for him, for my dad, and for every person who learned to carry their pain quietly. And it wasn’t just because he died so young...
There’s a kind of grief that doesn’t get named. Grief that isn’t validated. Grief that gets quiet- not because it went away, but because the world stopped listening. This is part of disenfranchised grief. The kind that lingers after everyone else has moved on. The...