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One more courageous soul to share their story.

END OF STORY HERE👉 keep the momentum going. She trusted me, and she taught me to try to trust myself too.

It is amazing what happened after that. It wasn't quick and it wasn't overnight. It wasn't a glamorous aha moment like I saw in the movies. It's still a project in the making and I still struggle. But changes are happening, and I've never been more excited to see what the next few years will bring.

This story is part of the Marginalized Voices Project. Learn more by following the link in bio☝️☝️☝️

END OF THE STORY 👉 ensure my identity would be supported and affirmed. Connecting with these communities and having long conversations with my partner, who also experiences gender dysphoria, opened my eyes to the possibilities of nonbinary gender identities and made me realize what it was about myself that I had been unable to put words to for so long. I am still in the process of accepting my gender identity and coming out about being gender-fluid, but feeling secure in the knowledge that I am not alone and having the language to understand how I feel has been an immense help in working through the ways I think and feel about my body.

My experience is not uncommon in the q***r and transgender communities. Through speaking to q***r and trans friends and reading other people’s experiences online, I have discovered that q***r and/or trans identity and eating disorders often accompany one another. When you don’t feel comfortable in the body in which you were born, and you have no support from society or your peers to express your true inner self, it can make sense to turn on yourself, to do drastic and harmful things to your own body.

In early 2013 I finally had the means to reach out for professional help, securing appointments with a dietician and therapist. Unfortunately, eating disorder and mental health treatment still seem to be geared towards cisgender, heterosexual people. My dietician recommended that I read a book on recovery which encouraged me, the assumed cisgender heterosexual female reader, to think of my eating disorder as an abusive husband or boyfriend. I have had an extremely difficult time finding a therapist who truly understands and respects q***r and trans identities and issues, even though I live in a city with a higher-than-average LGBTQ population. I am so thankful for the professional help I have received and strongly encourage people suffering from eating disorders to seek professional mental health treatment, but in my personal experience I have gained more body acceptance and tools for recovery from the q***r and trans communities than I have from traditional eating disorder treatment. Read more...follow the link in bio ☝️

Today to re-post story of Chani Coadi, who was so brave to share it with the world!

We continue to share stories of brave people, who participate in Marginalized voices project by NEDA. Today, thr story by Benji. Read more bt clucking the link in bio☝️☝️☝️

Today we are sharing the story of Amber Gonzalez. Read more on Neda.com, link in bio ☝️☝️☝️

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This is your invitation to help bring a radically compassionate healing paradigm into the world.
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Our 6-month training program offers both structure and a container for learning how to speak this language while unlearning what has been harmful, painful and frankly, not helpful. We believe our training will amplify your calling, your passion and your purpose. Mostly, we want you to feel confident and fluent in this work.
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We have a wonderful community! So many people came to learn and connect at our Lucky Lab event!! Can you find yourself in these pictures?? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️🙋🏾‍♀️🙋🏿‍♀️🙋🙋🏻🙋🏼🙋🏽🙋🏾🙋🏿🙋‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏽‍♂️🙋🏾‍♂️🙋🏿‍♂️ @ Lucky Labrador B**r Hall

Sumner Brooks, MPH, RDN, LD, CEDRD is a fat-positive registered dietitian, eating disorder specialist and entrepreneur who has been working as an outpatient counselor with clients along various levels of the disordered eating spectrum for over 11 years. Her experience includes being a Certified Intuitive Eating counselor since 2014 and she is currently in program to earn her certification as a Body Trust Provider through Be Nourished. Her online education and community platform for ED dietitians, called ED RD Pro is currently in its 4th year running, providing HAES-informed, eating disorder treatment training for dietitians and dietetic students around the world. She currently works with clients at Sundstrom clinic in West Linn, where she has a passion for working with adolescents. Sumner's most formative mentor is Elyse Resch, one of the co-authors of Intuitive Eating whom she has worked under the supervision of since 2011.

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