02-08-23, 05:10 PM | ||
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Thank you for posting! I support you too. Althugh I don't share the same history, I've shared similar frustrations with fitness-flavored resources for years. I wish that I had more specfic fitneess resources to recommend: my criteria may be particularly stringent , but I agree that the general fitness world hasn't been very supportive in certain critical ways.
Even so, things have been changing (though not as soon, as quickly, as thoroughly, or as smoothly as I'd like). A good example is the book Let's Get Physical, recently mentioned on VF--I still haven't read it, but the author's interviews show her awareness of such issues. For example, from an NPR interview titled "The complicated history of women's fitness": Quote:
Please feel welcome to post.
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"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." The Velveteen Rabbit |
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body image, diet culture, eating disorders, hybrid calisthenics, mental health |
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