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ugh!!!!

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Elsa Beskow:  From the book Children of the Forest

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Instagram ads are like here is a sexy feminist razor and a sexy feminist push up bra and sexy feminist leggings to enhance your sexy feminist ass 🙌🏽 if you support women please remove your body hair and get your tits out immediately!

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pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills  instead of being seen as behaviors

so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.

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Nothing we don’t already know here but nice to see it published by a big media outlet! Dr Gaudiani and Erin Harrop (a doctoral candidate researching higher weight anorexia) are interviewed. Save this for when your doctor/parent/friend/teacher says you can’t have anorexia bc you’re not thin enough–in fact the field’s leading experts say you can, and the idea that you can’t is extremely dangerous.

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"When a treatment specialist reinforces concepts of “good” food and “bad” food, of “healthy” food choices and sticking to a “balanced” meal plan, then how might someone in the grips of an eating disorder lower the level of anxiety such that she magically remains anxious about consuming food, but not so much so that she applies maladaptive anxiety modulating techniques such as self-administered starvation, excessive exercise, restriction and reactive eating cycles etc.?

Surely the more suitable approach is to help a patient embrace the fact that food is not something that should trigger fear for anyone? Why is anxiety over food choice and consumption accepted as not only a normative response, but also an ideal response in humans?

The dominant treatment approach for restrictive disorders today is equivalent to attempting to desensitize someone with a severe phobia of sunflowers by telling them a) it’s not about the sunflower at all in any case, b) there are good sunflowers and bad sunflowers and so the sufferer still needs to be vigilant, and c) as long as the sufferer does not flip into becoming a full-blown sunflower lover, then it will be possible to recover from the phobia and live a normal and balanced life where the person neither yearns for, nor overly fears, sunflowers.

In that entire scenario no one thought to suggest that sunflowers are not a threat to anyone and therefore the treatment specialist will set out to provide opportunities to reinforce the inherent benign nature of sunflowers such that the patient is able to recalibrate his or her threat response. If they end up loving sunflowers, then how nice is that? They are pretty cheery flowers after all.

And unlike sunflowers, food is critical for life. None of us can fear what an eating disorder fears.

- On what so many ED recovery practitioners get wrong in continuing to emphasize 'healthy' eating and pathologizing extreme hunger or 'binges'

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Interiors, Andy Dixon

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someone please explain

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All things have to be very good

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Adèle Haenel in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Portrait of a Lady On Fire) (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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Winter, Spring

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