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overcoming malignant shame [cc]
TheraminTrees
A reflection on one of the most damaging kinds of manipulation used by abusers: shaming. Where real-life cases are cited, details may be altered to preserve anonymity.
🎬 Videos(12)
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Dianna E. Anderson, Purity Culture Critic - Friendly Atheist Podcast EP 60
The Atheist Voice
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Becoming Body Neutral | Bethany Meyers | TEDxBethuneStreetWomen
TEDx Talks
Fitness instructor turned CEO, Bethany C. Meyers, discusses why shifting the motive for movement is a key to long term physical and mental health. After struggling with eating disorders and body dysmorphia for the majority of their fitness career, Meyers tossed out their old rule book and their bathroom scale with the intention of becoming body neutral -- meaning some days we feel positive about our body, some days we feel negative about our body, but all days we respect our body. In this vulnerable, incredibly personal talk, Meyers insists that we have the power to defy beauty standards simply by celebrating who we already are. Bethany C. Meyers, founder of the be.come project, is an in-demand NYC-based master instructor known for their body-positive and inclusive approach to instruction. With over a decade of experience, Bethany has taught countless group classes, private clients and trained numerous instructors. Bethany's knowledge of the body and alignment is visible in the be.come project's customized weekly routines as they bring the high-quality, effective boutique fitness experience in home.
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RfRx - Nudist Life: What It Is & Why It Can Be Good for You with Gwen Blodgett
Recovering from Religion
Nudist life, what it is, what it isn't and how to explore it. The discussion will also include key aspects of nudism and how these can be healing from shame.
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RfRx - Objectification vs Empowerment with Glenda Jordan
Recovering from Religion
Throughout millennia people have been treated like objects, and not as the free-willed individuals they were. We are really not too far removed from the days of chattel marriages and slavery, and those outdated ideas of people as objects still show up in our religious belief systems, our language, and our behaviors. In this RfRx discussion, Glenda Jordan will explore the difference between objectification and empowerment. When is a woman objectified? What makes a woman empowered? These buzzwords may seem confusing at first, but through the lens of contemporary feminist theory and female performance, the distinction between the two will become clear. Glenda Jordan is a professional model and artist, with a decade long career in Las Vegas as a dancer and entertainer. Raised Southern Baptist, Glenda had her secular and feminist awakening in her early 20s. When she's not performing or working in her studio, she enjoys marathon video game sessions, traveling, and spending time with her many pets.
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RfRx - Life After Purity Culture with Janice Selbie
Recovering from Religion
Janice Selbie spent nearly 4 decades as an Evangelical Christian. After divorcing her husband and her religion, she became a Registered Professional Counsellor and religious recovery consultant. In addition to working 1:1 with clients recovering from religious trauma, Janice developed the Divorcing Religion Workshop and founded the Conference on Religious Trauma – as well as the upcoming Shameless Sexuality: Life After Purity Culture online conference, happening in October.
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Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets
Prime Video
Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is a limited docuseries exposing the truth beneath the wholesome Americana surface of reality tv's favorite mega-family, The Duggars, and the radical organization behind them: The Institute in Basic Life Principles. As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they're part of an insidious, much-larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril.
📄 Articles(10)
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My Church Told Me I Needed Sex Addicts Anonymous. Here's What Happened When I Went.
Samantha Boesch
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Purity Culture Dropout
Erica Smith
Purity Culture Dropout ™️ is a six session intensive sexuality education and coaching program for folks who were raised in purity culture and who are seeking the queer inclusive, shame free, trauma informed, medically accurate, and comprehensive sex education they need. The program consists of intensive one-on-one work with me, individualized sex education learning assignments, and group support.
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Health at Every Size
Wikipedia
Health at Every Size (HAES) is an approach to public health that seeks to de-emphasise weight loss as a health goal, and reduce stigma towards people who are overweight or obese. Proponents argue that traditional interventions focused on weight loss, such as dieting, do not reliably produce positive health outcomes, and that health is a result of lifestyle behaviors that are independent of body weight.
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Sexual Reclamation Project
Dr. Tina Schermer
The Sexual Reclamation Project is a three-part powerful narrative project that will help you see in black and white just how much sexual shame you absorbed from your family of origin during your childhood. It will make clear your sexual legacy as it currently sits within your body/mind.
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happyinmyownskin
happyinmyownskin
Shedding religion & my clothes and learning to love my disabled body. sharing pictures makes me happy. f**k purity culture. f**k shame. get naked.
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The Starling Girl
Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm. Slowly, he draws her into a dangerous relationship that could upend their entire community.
📚 Books(9)
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength. As we awaken to our own indoctrinated body shame, we feel inspired to awaken others and to interrupt the systems that perpetuate body shame and oppression against all bodies. When we act from this truth on a global scale, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world--for us all.
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embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!)
Connie Sobczak
This book's message is rooted in the philosophy that people inherently possess the wisdom necessary to make healthy choices and to live in balance. It emphasizes that self-love, acceptance of genetic diversity in body size, celebration of the unique beauty of every individual, and intuitive self-care are fundamental to achieving good physical and emotional health. It encourages readers to shift their focus away from ineffective, harmful weight-loss efforts towards improving and sustaining positive self-care behaviors. Initial research indicates that this work significantly improves people's ability to regulate eating, decreases depression and anxiety, and increases self-esteem--all critical resources that promote resiliency against eating and body image problems.
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The Invisible Man: A Self-help Guide for Men With Eating Disorders, Compulsive Exercise and Bigorexia
John F. Morgan
The Invisible Man applies the latest research to produce a practical, problem-focused self-help manual for men with eating disorders and body image problems. Divided into four sections, this evidence-based survival kit covers: the wider cultural context of male body image problems features unique to men science fact and science fiction a 7 stage approach to treatment. By combining the science of cognitive behaviour therapy with motivational enhancement and problem-solving therapies, The Invisible Man provides help to all men with body image disorders, as well as families and professionals involved in their care.
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The Adonis Complex: How to Identify, Treat and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys
Harrison G. Pope Jr., Katharine A. Phillips, Roberto Olivardia
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Linda Kay Klein
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women--in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir. In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a dangerous message: girls are potential sexual "stumbling blocks" for boys and men, and any expression of a girl's sexuality could reflect the corruption of her character. This message traumatized many girls--resulting in anxiety, fear, and experiences that mimicked the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder--and trapped them in a cycle of shame.
🎙️ Podcasts(2)
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Heauxly Coitus on Apple Podcasts
To be a heaux is to engage in consensual sex, be kind to yourself and partner(s), creative, fully embodied, unapologetic, powerful, and free. A former virgin of 31 years and now heaux of 3, Ms. Heauxly Coitus (HC) loves talking to people who are coming to terms with their journey of sex, fu€king, Tinder dates, loving their bodies, unlearning from harmful teaching and purity culture, developing her sexual ethic, (re)claiming their sexual agency, and always in search of great sex (or not). Come share your heaux story on the pod and join the Heaux Revolution!
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Darrel: Recovering from Religion
Martyr She Wrote
A discussion with Darrel Ray on a wide range of issues including the terrible concept of sex addiction, the relationship between culture and religion, the trauma and harm of purity culture, and much more.