Showing posts with label all bodies are good bodies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label all bodies are good bodies. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2019

About Cie Monday + Inspire Me Monday #241+ Promote Yourself Monday + Carpe Diem Acts of Devotion 2019: Adam's Peak


I can only dream
of walking up Adam's Peak
body compromised

~Cie~


Notes:
Once we are fully moved into our new home, I would like to begin practicing remote viewing again. I will also be taking daily walks to the park and hope to increase my endurance enough to be able to walk from one end of the main street to the other. Grover is a very small town, so I don't want you-all thinking: "Wow, Cie, impressive goal walking twenty miles!" 
I would also like to rehabilitate myself to the point where I can walk up a set of stairs without having to pull myself up using the banister or to lean against an opposite wall to support myself. However, one thing I need to avoid is making this a shame-based goal, i.e. calling myself a loser because I need to support myself to climb stairs. We are taught from the time we are very young that it is shameful to be in a lesser state of physical ability than a competition class athlete, and I'm not being particularly hyperbolic when I say this. It's horrible.
Your physical abilities and disabilities are not a marker of success or worthiness. They are simply conditions that exist.
With physical therapy, I was able to bring my left arm back to a state of functionality where I'm not in constant debilitating pain. I still don't have the full range of motion in the arm. I am not a better person for having an arm that functions reasonably well than I was when I had an arm that I could barely use, and having an arm that was fully functional and had normal sensations would not make me a better person than I am now.
Physical ability is not a hallmark of greater worth, and physical disability is not something that people should be punished for.


Visit us at www.goodstufffromgrover.com. We're nearly there! The moving truck comes Friday!



Friday, May 24, 2019

Fat Friday: Welcome to Fat Friday #1


Welcome to the first Fat Friday here at the Camp! I suppose you could call it Fat Camp, but this Fat Camp isn't trying to force you to lose weight. 
This Camp is all about sharing encouragement with your fellow fatties if you are fat, and with your fat friends if you aren't. 
Bring on the Fatspiration! 
Share some glorious Fatshion!
Share recipes, fat positive images, artwork, stories.
Share your struggles with accepting yourself as you are.
It's fine to share thoughts on your struggles with disordered eating. A lot of us are in the same boat.
Here is what isn't welcome on Fat Friday.
Any post promoting diet and weight loss culture. There are more than enough spaces for that. Links to such posts will be deleted. No Thinspo. No Fitspo. At the Camp, we are for Health at Every Size, not size normativity.
Also, while it may be tempting to do so because of all the hatred those of us with larger bodies have had to endure, please don't share posts with any "real women have curves" and "only dogs like bones" kind of statements. Real people come in all sizes. It isn't our intent to be hateful to thin people, only to try and make changes in a culture that says beauty only comes in one size.
Now that the rules are out of the way, feel free to share away!

~Cie~