Resources
Mental Health Resources
I do not provide crisis services. In case of crisis or emergency, please reach out to trusted people in your life, to a local mobile crisis unit, to a hospital emergency department, or call 911.
Here are some other services you may find useful:
Suicide Crisis Helpline
https://988.ca/
988
LGBTQ2+ Youth Line
http://www.youthline.ca/
1-800-268-9688
Trans Lifeline
http://www.translifeline.org/
1-877-330-6366
Eating Disorder Support
National Eating Disorder Information Centre
https://nedic.ca/
Fat Liberation/ Health At Every Size Resources
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Virgie Tovar (HIGHLY recommend her Ted Talk)
Sonalee Rashatwar (the Fat Sex Therapist)
Regan Chastain - danceswithfat.wordpress.com, https://weightandhealthcare.substack.com/
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You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Shrill by Lindy West
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jes Baker
Fat!So? by Marilyn Wann
Happy Fat: Taking up space in a world that wants to shrink you by Sofie Hagen
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison
Intuitive Eating (4th edition) by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 other myths about fat people by Aubrey Gordon
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun Harrison
Fat and Fertile by Nicola Salmon
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