A Move Toward the Dark Side?
by Dr. Jenny Copeland “It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.” In this movement, it often appears that we should choose between the two sides of… Read More »A Move Toward the Dark Side?
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My Mom Has a Disease
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
One by One
To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of Judith Matz’s and Ellen Frankel’s Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Comprehensive Guide to Treating Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Eating, and Emotional Overeating… Read More »One by One
The Problem of Body Hatred — Issues of Unavoidable Power and Privilege
by Dr. Jenny Copeland Note from your blog committee: The following op-ed by Dr. Copeland was originally published in The European magazine. While many regular readers of this blog already… Read More »The Problem of Body Hatred — Issues of Unavoidable Power and Privilege
HAES® Matters: Understanding the New HAES Principles
From time to time the Health At Every Size® Blog shares HAES Matters “roundtable” posts with our readers. The questions below were posed by the ASDAH Blog Committee to some… Read More »HAES® Matters: Understanding the New HAES Principles
Size Matters
by Dana Schuster, MS The following post was published on Feb. 25 in the “Not In Our Town” Blog, a movement whose goal is “to stop hate, address bullying, and… Read More »Size Matters
First Comes Acceptance, Then Comes…?
by Dr. Jenny Copeland I want to talk about something uncomfortable, something that I wonder if we all think about in the corners of our mind but dare not say… Read More »First Comes Acceptance, Then Comes…?
Infiltrating the Fitness Industry
by Michelle Pitman, Certified Personal Trainer It has been almost four years since I embarked on the journey of leaving my corporate gig and venturing into the fitness industry as… Read More »Infiltrating the Fitness Industry
Revising the HAES Principles
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA, President, Association for Size Diversity and Health I began contributing to this blog before I became the President of ASDAH. Since then, I have considered… Read More »Revising the HAES Principles
Musings on Community and Stigma
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA For the second year in a row, I have been asked to submit a blog post that will appear during the week of Christmas. In last… Read More »Musings on Community and Stigma