My Take on Body Positivity. Buckle Up.

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Partial Transcript: We are going to talk about something that is a little bit controversial. And my opinion on it is also controversial. Shocking. I know.  I know you guys don't come here for the vanilla bullshit, but we're going to get into it today. So. Before we start. I want to say that everything I say today, Is meant to empower you. It is not meant to make you feel less than it is not meant to make you feel like you are stuck where you are, and it is not meant to tell you how to feel about yourself. What it is meant to do is empower you, despite certain things that are set in certain narratives that I think are very, very common right now. And these thoughts that I think a lot of people are having, they won't say out loud. So I'm going to say them out loud.. They do not want to tell people that they think these things or feel this way or whatever it is. And yet so many people because of my job position are coming to me with these things. It's not uncommon at this point and it needs to be addressed. So we're going to dive into it today, body positivity. We're in talking about weight loss and how those two things play into one another. Are they mutually exclusive? Do you have to either love yourself or lose weight? Can you do both? Can you not do both? 

Why or why not? All of these things are all of the arguments that you hear, but body positivity, I think. As a movement. Was very good intentioned and like most movements. The second it got extreme shit. Stop making sense. 

 Body positivity. What even is it? What are we talking about? Body positivity as listed by Wikipedia. Body positivity is a social movement focused on the acceptance of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, tone, gender, and physical abilities. While challenging present day beauty standards as an undesirable social construct. That is what body positivity. Is according to the interwebs. Body positivity to me. Has become. A lot of other things. That is not that 

let's first talk about this idea of radical self-love because I think it's important. A lot of people walk around hating themselves. And that isn't good either. So how do we deal with the balance of this? 

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