ASDAH’s blog committee has recently engaged in outreach activities to secure a series of posts on yoga, as it relates to the HAES paradigm: yoga for all bodies, learning to focus… Read More »Where Is My Back Leg, Anyway? The Yogic Path to Intuitive Eating and Body Respect
by Lizabeth Wesely-Casella My mom has muscular dystrophy. It’s a disease that wastes the muscles and grows increasingly more serious over time. My mom will die with a brain as… Read More »My Mom Has a Disease
by Jenny Copeland, PsyD “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” ~ Horace ~ On some level I am convinced that members… Read More »On Origin Stories
by Jenny Copeland, PsyD As a size acceptance advocate – and mental health professional – defensiveness is no stranger to me. Human beings naturally resist that which is unknown or… Read More »Finding the Compassion in our Peace Movement