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HAES Health

Locality: Dudley Park

Phone: +61 412 034 289

Address: 24 Kookerbrook Street 6210 Dudley Park, WA, Australia

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21.01.2022 Loved watching this mini movie. So much joy and fun.

20.01.2022 I've just been reading this paper by Mara Sapon-Shevin "Inclusion as if we meant it: a social justice perspective" The focus of the paper is social justice and education however the parallels to professions like dietetics that claim to be inclusive or working toward inclusion is very similar. While many health practitioners have jumped on board HAES, the body positive movement and social justice movements, what has been the outcome/s? I'm wondering where is the evidence of ch...ange and inclusion? What have been the benefits to those from marginalised identities? I see blog posts, podcasts, articles, research and lovely meme's but what has actually changed for those from marginalised identities? How has it changed? To what degree has it change and what does this look like in terms of numbers and outcomes? Because I'm still seeing, hearing, reading and witnessing pain, hurt and further marginalisation that screams "nothing has changed". Am I wrong to conclude that those who are doing well from this are those who have always done well? IMO all this is largely an intellectual pursuit that has not translated too much benefit at the grassroots level. And it's also an intellectual pursuit that uses clever mental gymnastics to avoid the unpleasant reality that in order to effect change, something needs to give (power, privilege, ego and all the benefits that flow from that).

19.01.2022 Sadly HAES is still so misunderstood. Here's an instagram post from @coach_mike_millner who had hash tagged #haes now removed. His post is below my response.Oh and I fixed it for him :D --------...Continue reading

18.01.2022 The concepts in @evelyntribole & @elyseresch ‘s book, Intuitive Eating played a big role (along with a shit ton of therapy & meds & partnering with someone who ...was not an asshole) in helping me heal from my eating disorder and from complex trauma. The ideas of experiencing permission, neutrality, peace, unconditional acceptance in my body that now seem so foundational were foreign and scary but so, so healing. Will it be *the thing* that heals you? maybe. I’ve seen it do an incredible amount of good for many, many clients and its principles are core to my work (Thank you Evelyn & Elyse ). But I also don’t believe that because it worked for me, it’ll work for you. Healing is much more complex than that. Is it a perfect approach for everyone? Nopeno such thing. As with ANY approach, I do think there are accessibility issues with IE for some populations, a function of more larger, systemic issues more than a function of the approach/principles themselves. We have 7.6 billion people are earth. We need lots of different approaches to healing. But that’s not even what Jillian Michaels is talking about. Her response to IE wasn’t an attempt at exploring accessibility or social justice issues. It was an attempt TO SELL HER WEIGHT LOSS PLATFORM. She literally does a sales pitch at the end of the video. She is not a dietitian. She is not a psychotherapist. She is not a medical doctor. She is a savvy business owner that has built her career by yelling at fat people and reinforcing the idea that the only way to be healthy is to be smaller. Simply not true. If you’re actually interested in learning about what Intuitive Eating is (and is not), I’m happy to connect you with a plethora of accurate sources. Best place to begin would be the book. You can find it on amazon. 4th edition. Will just reading the book alone heal all of your eating and body image woes? Nope. BUT it may open more doors toward healing and begin the process of affirming that your body can be trusted and is not *wrong.* Have you read it? Let us know below . Plan to? Let me know when you to. Would love to hear how you experience it. See more

16.01.2022 It’s time to drop the act and ACT. If we aren’t feeling in any way uncomfortable, challenged, conflicted then we aren’t doing activism. If we are merely liking, sharing or posting on social media but still centering ourselves then we are maintaining the systems of oppression that are the problem. When I came into HAES it was a community. It was one where all shared and discussed. Some of those folks were those in marginalised bodies and lives and I’m sure have never made a c...ent from the free and willing labour they gave. I am forever grateful for the lessons and friendship they offered me. But since then I’ve seen a shift. A shift that has bothered me a lot. I had and am still questioning the thoughts and feelings around this, but the shift was from a community to business. I’ve also been one who jumped on that. I felt my own values and purpose got lost as I joined in. I joined in and partnered with capitalism and the competitiveness of capitalism in my thinking and actions. Regardless of how much I didn’t make and how much it cost, I was still confusing much of what I was doing as activism. I may of helped in some ways but I didn’t help by reinforcing a hierarchical system. I’m not sharing this to berate myself or to attack anyone. Unlearning our white supremacist, capitalistic thinking, behaviour and defaults is a process. It’s literally taken me to experience the absolute worst devastating painful experience of systematic bullying, injustice and discrimination to have an ounce of an idea of what racism might feel like. It’s taken this experience to show me how harmful, how isolating and how much harm and vulnerability it creates. I love HAES and all I’ve learned but my activism needs to be so much more that dismantling diet culture. It has to be about dismantling all the systems of oppression, especially racism. I want to call in my fellow white folks who are doing activism to reflect and I'd like to ask a genuine question. If you are doing activism for profit (combining business and activism messages) how do you reconcile this? I recognise we all need to earn an income and I also recognise the costs involved in becoming a professional and maintaining that. But beyond this aspect what is your thinking and rationale? Because for me it seems like capitalism to sell to others especially marginalised folks what was not our own work in terms of advocacy and activism. Challenge me, question me, reflect with me because this needs discussing. It needs discussing when I am witnessing the cries of many marginalised folks at being left out, pointing out that despite all the appearances, things haven't changed for them. For them they are still seeing the thin white folks making the money, taking the stage, holding onto the mike and making it about them. It's on us.

14.01.2022 Gender in marketing. Apparently women (pink) need to thrive and shine But men (blue) need to be sharp and ready. ... Wonder what happens if you take the ‘wrong’ one? #stereotypes #marketingfail #heteronormative #bs ugh

14.01.2022 Racism is insidious and drives and normalises discrimination in many ways, including weight and this is something that really matters when weight is so demonised and commercialised.

14.01.2022 I’m enjoying 2 weeks off work and I’ve binge watched some things and started reading the massive pile of books I’ve bought but not read. I’ve just finished this by @kimberly.dark and loved it. Story-telling is so incredibly powerful and even more so in this case. Kimberley & I are of similar age, both fat, are educated but our stories are different and yet I was able to begin to see my own stories in a new light, one that ignites curiosity and hope. Thank you Kimberley

13.01.2022 The image says Living in a body that is seen, with contempt and disgust, and yet not seen, but rather looked through, like a broken pane of glass is a pain that cuts deep. This is the worst feeling and it’s happened more than once. Having a conversation where this feeling was shared with me brought up all my own pain and hurt. It is what I hear from others, the excruciating feeling of being looked through. Looked right through like a broken pane of glass. Knowing that you si...Continue reading

13.01.2022 My new garden addition. Known as Balga in the local Noongar lauguage, grasstree or Xanthorrhoea (Zan-thor-rea) They are incredibly slow growing (around 1cm a year and 10-20 years before the stem even shows above ground). With far too much land clearing happening it makes me so sad and I’m glad I was able to give this baby a home. I estimate it’s over 200 years old. Thanks @margaretrivergrasstree_am_boab for delivery and install #wanativeplants @ Mandurah, Western Australia

11.01.2022 So love the hard work and passion and commitment of Lindley and of course the beautifully photos providing diversity that we do not see elsewhere <3

10.01.2022 Definitely recommend Nicole

10.01.2022 The feeling of being excluded is painful and I would think that most of us have felt this pain. Some of us have experienced discrimination and bullying, overt and or covert. No matter how much it hurts if you are a white, cis, hetero, able-bodied individual, it can never be the same as someone with a disability or those with a number of marginslised identities. Our experience of exclusion is not comparable. To fight discrimination we must actively recognise it, fight it especially for those who are excluded the most in our society. . #HAES #healthateverysize #HAESIG #thebodyisnotanapology #mindfulness #selfcare #weightstigma #fatacceptance #health #feminism #intersectionality #wellbeing #diversity #inclusion #socialjustice #bluezones #mandurah #nutritionist #disabilityawareness #stopdiscrimination #accomdateallbodies

10.01.2022 Welcome to the new year and being bombarded with claims. So, so, so many claims. Big claims, little claims, everything in between claims and the very special, magical, fantastical claims....Continue reading

09.01.2022 In 2020 Dr. Louise Metz (Mosaic Comprehensive Care,) Tiana Dodson Renard and Ragen Chastain received an ASDAH grant to create the HAES Health Sheets website. That site is now live! It includes diagnosis-specific sheets that are meant to help patients, advocates, and practitioners understand weight-neutral options for healthcare. The site also contains a resource list that includes everything from self-advocacy cards to links to studies. You can find it at www.HAESHealthShee...ts.com Please feel free to share it far and wide. Huge thanks to ASDAH for the funding!

08.01.2022 May 6 each year is International No Diet Day. Each year I post. This year I want to not just post but pledge both as an Individual and also as a health professional to do more. This meme shares what I want this day to be about. What I want to achieve and help others achieve in our activism and advocacy. These are my goals for International No Diet Day:... Question the ideal of one "right" body shape. Increase awareness about the harms of weight stigma weight discrimination, size bias and fatphobia. Enjoy at least one day free from diets and diet talk. Provide facts about dieting and the diet industry after over 60 years of promises. Show how diet culture perpetuates violence against all bodies. Honor the victims of eating disorders and diet culture. Help end the discrimination, stigma, bias and fatphobia. I'll update this with how I did tomorrow. #haes #nodietday #weightstigma #ditchthediets

06.01.2022 Fat shaming has been high on social media lately. Linking weight to health and therefore seen as moral superiority needs to stop, it’s harmful and worsens health #weightstigma

04.01.2022 If you think you're not racist simply because you're a good person, and you would never hate or harm someone based on the colour of their skin, then your defini...tion of racism is probably too narrow. While it's true that the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, and countless others, as well as other examples of racist hate that we see on social media are some of the most overt and life-threatening examples of racism, it's really the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what racism actually is. Racism is not just about how a person feels about a group of people solely based on the colour of their skin. It's a system. You can be a nice person and have been complicit to this system. You can wish no harm to others and have been complicit to this system. I have been complicit to this system. It is the reason why Black (and non-Black POC, but we are focusing on Black people right now) folks have disproportionately lower levels of education and income, as well as higher rates of incarceration, food insecurity, morbidity, and mortality. It's why Black folks are often underrepresented in leadership positions, and pigeonholed into specific roles in our arts and entertainment. If you thought your anti-racism work was finished simply when you decided to be nice to Black people, your work is just beginning. We can ALL do more. The white supremacist system has been entrenched in our society for centuries, and probably won't be taken down in our lifetime, but we can do our part in chipping it away.

02.01.2022 The lengths that trolls will go to when they hate is endless. The sad thing is that if only as many people went to the same lengths to help others.

02.01.2022 A wonderful story-teller and wonderful teacher and a wonderful amazing soul. Enjoy and there's still time to sign up for the Fat Studies Online Conference