Discussing Body Image in Therapy

LS addresses overcoming fear and shame around discussing body image issuses and disordered eating with her therapist. Her therapist provided strategies to promote her bodily autonomy and body positivity.

Transcript

OBOS Today: How has your experience in therapy been?

LS: Um, therapy has been really great. I think that it took me a while to talk about body image with my therapist. Like I kind of stayed away from it for so long because it was kind of the topic, and like talking about disordered eating and stuff, like that it was a topic that I was most ashamed of and most afraid to talk about, so it took me so long to be able to have conversations with her about that. But I think once I started opening it up about it with her, she gave me like a lot of strategies and kind of helped me a lot to think about like my own control over my body and my own like ability to dictate like how I want to see myself and how I like don't have to let others influence me as much. And obviously like that doesn't fix everything but it's kind of been a good start to changing the way I see myself and the way I see myself kind of in relation to other people who like feel like they have the ability to like dictate how I should look or live.