Hey Food Shrinkies — it's Molly C, Clarissa, and Molly P, diving even deeper into the conversation we thought we wrapped up last week. Spoiler: We weren’t done. Not even close.

Last week, we cracked open the Pandora’s box of body image in recovery — and this week, we’re standing in the storm. Clarissa shares what surfaced for her after playing it “safe” last episode and comes back with fire, truth, and an angry love letter to the body image bullying that’s haunted her for decades. Molly joins with her own mix of sorrow and advocacy, and together, we ask: How do we live with our bodies when the world taught us to live against them?

In this unfiltered, fiercely honest follow-up, we talk about:

• The “body noise” that’s louder than the food noise
• Why anger — not sadness — is sometimes the real breakthrough
• Saunas, baths, and the quiet terror of being alone in your skin
• Body grief, eating disorder residue, and the illusion of “thin = loved”
• Releasing the fantasy of full freedom and embracing the messy middle
• Body serenity: is it real? is it possible? is it even the point?
• The shame of being a professional who still struggles
• How diet culture gaslights our worth and confuses our healing
• And the Buddhist practice of Tonglen — breathing in the collective pain, breathing out compassion

This isn’t a “how-to” episode. It’s a “me too” episode.

Because we don’t have to be done with this to be worthy. We don’t have to win the war to reclaim our skin. We just have to keep talking. Keep telling the truth. Keep holding each other in the struggle.

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Together, we breathe through the noise. Together, we reclaim the body as home.

We love you. We’re with you. Always.

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