Speaker for rent!

When my ebook BODY NEUTRAL got here out final June, I did a reside studying and Q&A on the ebook launch occasion at a neighborhood physique constructive health club All Our bodies Motion, and I beloved it. Getting to speak about all my favourite matters (and join with individuals who care about them as a lot as I do!) is such a deal with, and I’ve been actually desirous to do extra talking occasions ever since!

So I’m tremendous enthusiastic about this speak, and about a couple of different talking occasions I’ve within the works too, together with a neighborhood one targeted on physique neutrality for trans and queer of us!

Apparently although, within the strategy of writing my notes for these talks, I maintain operating into new matters and angles I wish to dive into and speak about! 

I understand it is sensible to comply with the pure movement of my ebook when instructing and speaking about physique neutrality to an viewers who has by no means heard of it earlier than, however my very own understanding of the subject has develop into deeper and extra nuanced, even simply within the final 12 months and a half since handing in my closing manuscript! 

I’ve develop into fascinated by other ways physique picture struggling can attempt to defend an individual, and I’ve fallen down new rabbit holes round how physique picture points work together with relationships, nervousness, disgrace, gender, sexuality, empowerment, vulnerability, existentialism, and oppression. 

Due to this, in writing my notes for these talks, I’ve kind of inadvertently discovered myself outlining notes for half a dozen different talks, together with:

• Physique Neutrality for Fats Of us: shifting your relationship to weight (and weight stigma) in a world the place different folks nonetheless consider weight loss program tradition’s lies.

• The Need to “Get Management Over” Your Physique: shifting towards physique neutrality when you may’t stand feeling helpless, and management is the one factor that makes you are feeling protected.

• The Fantasy of Worthiness & Exceptionalism: how believing the one strategy to be “ok” is to be particular, completely different, or distinctive results in physique picture points (and easy methods to let that go!)

• Internalized Oppression and Physique Picture: why your interior critic all the time appears to agree along with your abusers and oppressors, and easy methods to shift your allegiances from them to you. 

• Being Engaging and Being Desired Aren’t the Similar Factor: untangling standard magnificence beliefs and objectification from the pure human drive to be beloved and needed. 

• You Don’t Actually Need to Match In, You Need to Belong: how attempting to keep away from judgment, and be “regular” or “acceptable” is a shedding technique in case your aim is to really feel linked, joyful, and worthy as you’re. (And easy methods to get there as an alternative!)

• You Physique Can’t Forestall Rejection, Humiliation, or Heartbreak: exploring the unconscious self-protection “technique” on the root of a lot physique picture struggling (holding your physique answerable for a activity it doesn’t have the ability to succeed at), and easy methods to let it go. 

I’ve so many different ideas on particular matters up my sleeve too, like widespread misconceptions about what physique neutrality is (and isn’t), the advanced panorama of hope and betrayal brought on by Ozempic and different current “miracle weight reduction medication,” and easy methods to perceive and deal with binge consuming and meals fears.

Now, I might completely attempt to flip every of those matters into podcast episodes, movies, programs, or written items, however I really feel like they’re simply begging to be introduced to a reside viewers. They wish to be skilled in a bunch setting, the place folks can discover them collectively, bouncing them round and deepening their collective understanding and resonance via questions and dialogue. 

With that in thoughts, I’m formally placing it on the market that I’m now out there for rent as a speaker!

If you occur to be able to herald a speaker, or arrange a talking occasion (to your health club, library, retailer, firm, neighborhood, no matter!) please be happy to hit reply and let me know.

I’d be joyful to offer a chat on any of the above matters, or give you one thing new collectively that will finest suit your particular wants and viewers. (My charges are a bit completely different relying on whether or not I’m giving a chat I’ve already ready, or arising with a brand new one, however I may be versatile and attempt to work inside your finances, so don’t be afraid to ask!)

And in the event you’re not able to arrange one thing like that, no worries! Simply know that I’ve some new concepts brewing, and I’ll maintain you posted about occasions like this once they’re out there to the general public.