Spend enough time in therapy spaces (from pop psychology Instagram to your own clinician's office) and you'll probably hear some version of advice to "get out of your head and into your body." The idea makes sense since many folks resonate with spending so much time and energy thinking that they lose touch with what they're feeling physically. They may find that learning to notice their muscle tension, breath patterns, and internal sensations that point to emotions they're fe

So much of the literature that exists about body image treats it as almost entirely intrapersonal ("How do I perceive my body?"), but after attending a talk about sexuality and embodiment, I've been considering the ways in which it is also interpersonal ("How do I experience my body as being perceived, appreciated, and reflected back to me by people I trust?"). The talk, like so many on sexuality, excluded asexual spectrum (aspec) experiences and prompted many brainstorms abo

When neurodivergent people in eating disorder recovery talk about exercise, the narrative that we are more susceptible to becoming addicted to it than neurotypical peers might be. "Be careful," we're warned, because adrenaline, endorphins, vestibular input, dopamine, and emotion regulation are all things that movement provides, and becoming dependent on it to self-medicate might mean overdoing it. If you're sensing a tone of cynicism here, you're onto me. To be fair, this exp

Given that every individual has a sensory profile as unique as our fingerprints, and that every sense is involved in our experience of embodiment, it only makes sense that the way we approach healing our relationships with our bodies should be adapted to fit our very specific sensory needs. It’s exciting to hear more and more eating disorder providers remark that treatment can no longer be “one-size-fits-all.” But when individualizing a plan for healing, how are they taking