If you are a teacher like me, you are coming up on the end of the year, a time for reflection, reassessment of practice, and thoughts about next year’s goals. One of the personal goals that I set for myself this year was to be more conscious about the way that I talked about myself in front of my students, especially my female students, particularly around the topics of weight and food. Being more conscious of this kind of language made me realize the incredible amount of time that the women I know, myself included, spend thinking, talking, planning, and shaming around food and body image. So, let’s chat about it.
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