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#7 Nancy B
Listen to Nancy B (she/her) share her belly story about the bittersweet process of learning to love her belly and her body as her life changed: immigrating from Morocco to the US, becoming a mother of boys, gaining pandemic weight, and aging.
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Diet Culture Friday
Check out f*ck you Diet Culture Friday! This week – North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un and his “weight loss” – how insane can diet culture get?!
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Stone Age Stomachs
We have always had diverse bodies and bellies. Before written language, human hands chiseled their world into moist cave walls and hunks of stone. What they created, we assume, was their collective view of their world. . Prehistoric artists focused on animals – not humans. Humans were mere stick figures, feathery lines and dark circles,…
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#6 Alix S
Alix S (she/her) shares her belly story about losing both her breasts to breast cancer at 32 and learning to see her stomach scar from a DIEP (deep inferior epigastric perforators) flap surgery as a sign of strength and self-love.
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#5 Courtney P (she/her)
Courtney P (she/her) shares her belly story about her journey of trusting her gut as a teenage actor in Los Angeles, a 30 year old choosing to marry, and a single parent navigating a hard divorce.
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#4 Laura F (she/her)
Laura F (she/her) shares her belly story about living with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and learning to tap into her “deep gut” – or the value system that lives beneath her anxiety.
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#3 Tashika C
Tashika Campbell (she/her) shares her belly story and how her hysterectomy scar embodies empowerment, bravery, and justice. Support our storyteller:
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#2 Julia H
Julia H. shares her belly journey from fourth grade mean girls, to bariatric surgery, to centering bravery in her everyday life. Support Julia Hall!
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#1 Alyssa W
Alyssa W shares her belly story about losing a child and gaining a new perspective on her beautiful belly.