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201: The Neurological Effects Of Body Shame/Fatphobic Trauma

How does body shame lead to trauma? How does trauma change how your brain sees and understands the world? What/Who might offer support or relief?

Virgie Tovar

Jan 13

Today's article is meant to grow from a conversation we started in October on fatphobia-inspired trauma. If it's meaningful, go back and read that 201 (or what you wrote in response to it) in alongside this one.

What separates the experience of a single negative event - or several negative events - from the development of trauma? Well, trauma leaves a mark on our lives, bodies and brains.

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