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Raising the Bar on Diet Culture

By: redtentwomen June 11, 2024April 30, 2024

Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesBody awareness, Body image, Body Weight Stigma, Devan Grayson, dieting, healthy eating, Weight Training1 Comment

“Suck it in girls.” I tighten my core and smile as a group of mothers coach my friends and me on how to stand for our homecoming pictures. As a 33-year-old woman looking back on these photos, I wonder, what was there to make smaller? A 14 year old who had barely passed puberty, I…

Hungry for Worth

By: redtentwomen January 22, 2021December 16, 2020

Day to Day, Femininity, Intentional Living, Monthly ThemesBlessing your Body, Body Shaming, Body Weight Stigma, Caring for your body, dieting, weight loss4 Comments

When I was in college, I heard a rumor that the cute girls who worked in the cafeteria would take all the leftover slices of pie from the food line and eat as much as they could hold; then, they would force themselves to vomit. I was so jealous. I tried, yes, but my body…

All Bodies Are Good Bodies

By: redtentwomen February 26, 2018February 25, 2018

Day to DayBody image, Body Weight Stigma, Dismantling Privilege, Let the Bones Dance, Lindsey Braman, Marcia Mount Shoop, Shame, The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology11 Comments

In Zadar, Croatia there is a thousand year old church that sits crumbling on the edge of the Adriatic sea. Embedded in its foundation are countless broken artifacts, alters, and columns from the pagan temple that once stood in its place. It was only a few meters from this church where I swam in open…