361: Best of: Allowing Yourself to Grieve Your Here and Now Body with Bri Campos

Brianna (or Bri) Campos is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of NJ. She has experience working with Eating Disorders and has a special interest in body image. She also teaches Introduction To Eating Disorders at St. Thomas Aquinas. She currently works as a body image coach & is passionate about teaching women about Health at Every Size (HAES) and taking an all foods fit approach to finding freedom with food and learning to make peace with your current body. 

 

You can find out more about her or how to work with her find her on instagram @bodyimagewithbri. 

 

Today’s conversation explores the allowing of body grief. It’s so common in the body positive, health at every size communities to discuss accepting your body, but today’s episode is focused on the important step you must take before accepting it, and that’s grieving for your here and now body.

 

In this episode we discuss:

Bri’s origin story to becoming a therapist that specializes in body image The realization of the body positive, health at every size and body acceptance community, the different ways we discover and embrace it as individuals The nonlinear and nuanced journey to getting to a place of body acceptance What is body grief and body shame Specific actions you can take to allow yourself to experience body grief Moving from body grief to body acceptance Cultivating self esteem and self worth

 

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Thank you to Better Help for sponsoring today’s episode. You can click here to learn more and begin your journey with Better Help today.

 

Announcements:

Food & Body Peace Playbook will re-open again in late summer if you missed this Spring enrollment. We are currently booking for April and May for individual counseling at our virtual practice, Nourishing Minds Nutrition. If you’re looking for intuitive eating and body image support and/or you’re in need of anti-diet advice for HA, PCOS and IBS we would love to support you. 

 

Resources for you:

Learn more about our services at Nourishing Minds Nutrition. Read testimonials from our amazing clients here.  Join our FREE support group for like-minded women, the Nourishing Women Community for more community & support. If you struggle with HA and you're ready to regain your health and fertility, join Get Your Period Back Playbook. Take a look at our online shop, the Wellness Without Obsession Shop, which now includes a self paced online course to begin your intuitive eating journey, the Beginner’s Guide to Food & Body Peace.

 

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