Body Trust
“You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
Your body is enough.
Reclaim your body and come home to yourself.
Body trust® is a scientifically grounded, radical healing modality that is strength-based and trauma-informed. The focus of this work is using your inner wisdom to rebuild trust and develop a deeper, intuitive connection with your body. Body trust is a radically different way of caring and occupying your body, which is counter to conventional “wisdom” about body image, weight, health, and food. This approach is an alternative to the repetitive pattern of dieting, disordered eating and weight cycling fueled by shame, trauma, and body-based oppression. Body trust is rooted in liberation based frameworks, including Niva Piran’s Developmental Theory of Embodiment, Health at Every Size®, intuitive eating, shame resilience theory, and self-compassion theory.
Cultivate the relationship you want with yourself and your body that allows for joy, satisfaction, flexibility, connection, and compassion.
How We Reclaim our Body Trust
Below is the framework of Body Trust. For more information, click here
The Rupture
Explore what embodiment is and explore your body story. Learn how ways of coping have helped you survive and are grounded in wisdom.
The Reckoning
Reckon with ways your body has been disrupted by harmful ideas, beliefs, and practices in our culture.
The Reclamation
Reclaim your body. Reclaim your voice. Reclaim you story. But most of all, reclaim yourself.