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When body acceptance has unspoken limits in wellness communities

Everyone in my embodiment group talks about radical self-love but when I said I was learning to love my fat body the energy got weird and now body positivity feels performative and conditional.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The celebration of self-love is constrained by unconscious aesthetic hierarchies that exclude certain bodies from full acceptance.

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