What To Do When You Miss Your Smaller Body

Burnt Toast by Virginia Sole-Smith

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Welcome to Indulgence Gospel After Dark! It's time for your October Extra Butter!

This month we’re diving into some big, hard questions, like:

How do you mourn big body changes?

What happens if your body size really is the reason you can’t do something you used to love?

Does the “Health At Every Size” framework ever fail fat people?

When is it systemic oppression and when is it just…physics?

Or…do we all just need a Fat Day?

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Disclaimer: Virginia and Corinne are humans with a lot of informed opinions. They are not nutritionists, therapists, doctors, or any kind of healthcare providers. The conversation you're about to hear and all of the advice and opinions they give are just for entertainment, information, and education purposes only. None of this is a substitute for individual medical or mental health advice.

CREDITS

The Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith (follow me on Instagram) and Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus and Big Undies—subscribe for 20% off.

The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.

Our theme music is by Farideh.

Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.

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