Episode Summary: In Episode 7 of The Inked Therapist, Del Knight — Certified Body Trust Specialist, Center for Body Trust (2024) — introduces the body trust framework and why it's different from body positivity, intuitive eating, or any other self-improvement program dressed in liberation language. This episode names the systems — diet culture, medical fatphobia, wellness culture — that taught most of us not to trust our bodies, walks through the core threads of the Center for Body Trust approach, and gets specific about what body trust actually looks like in a life, in a therapy room, and in a culture that profits from the war.

Topics Covered: Body trust vs. body positivity · Center for Body Trust framework · Body sovereignty · Diet culture · Medical fatphobia · Wellness culture co-optation · Body trust for trans and neurodivergent people · Interoception · Grief and body trust · Health as not a moral obligation · Collective vs. individual healing

Framework credit: Center for Body Trust — Hilary Kinavey & Dana Sturtevant

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