Therapist Kayla Stansberry (she/her) is here sharing how joy and community can be a treatment approach for body trauma. And this isn’t just for fat & plus-size people. Diet culture and capitalism have created body trauma for all of us, no matter what our bodies look like, and Kayla is here to take us through what we can do about that.

Kayla is a Licensed Therapist, mother of 3 fun toddlers, and specializes in Fat Activism & Liberation. She is the founder and owner of Intuitive Growth Counseling and Body Image Counseling. Kayla is passionate about spreading Fat Liberation and helping people on their journey to diet culture freedom. On the side, Kayla has co-founded Therapists in Action which gathers therapists together to work on advocacy projects in the United States.

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This episode’s poem is called Earth’s Eternal Heart and is by Kaveri Patel.

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