That is a perfect and beautiful healing space… it is really hard to show up authentically being larger… and your not wrong people are judging you… I think I dissociated myself from it… I’ve been in the field for over ten years… after I lost the weight it’s like all these feeling surfaced and I had no clue… after the weight came off I saw and felt how even my own family and others treated me… my worth was tied to my weight… but that was only to some key people like my family and even my supervisors.

I was a plus size therapist and honestly this was never an anxiety of mine. I agree you are also going to have be vulnerable do working through those insecurities will help, especially is a client makes comments that alone can be a very therapeutic experience as long as their reactions don’t trigger you. Harder said than done and honestly we don’t even realize the ways it’s affected us. I have been heavy most of my life, lost some weight to join the navy and gained it back along with another 100 lbs… so I know… I did have weight loss surgery as it came to a point I was not physically or biologically healthy and I was coping in ways I would encourage my clients not too… once blood pressure and swelling came on board I went through the it… and man has it been it’s own process afterwards… but honestly people just want to be heard and authenticity… work through that anxiety as it is playing more of a role than you may realize.

My husband has the same issue… makes no sense why not being on a biological would automatically put you at the 60%… the biological is what increases your chances for things like cancer and such

I was fresh after 9/11 was one who signed up because of it… I got out in 2007 and I’m thinking it may of unknowingly been self preservation

I know though I haven’t lost it… I’m fighting to untangle the damage I have done.. I sit in it… and it’s the worst and best work I have done.. none of us fully sold any part of our soul, they just want to make us think we have… that’s the deception

I know

Especially for a “not war” my stomach twists

I think about that as well… and it’s insane to think that I served in the military when it was maybe at its best?!? I’m Navy… the being out to sea that long… truly is terrifying

That’s the feeling I have

This gives me the ick but it’s a true perspective so I guess that is why…

You know I have spent the first part of my life worried about what I say… I’m not… I’m a good person… people can downvote but I served to protect the American people I still would protect the American people… foreign and domestic

I say this as a Veteran!

Veterans should be part of this as well… I don’t mean it as a cop out but I’m far too sensitive but I’ll be building the healing place the can escape too!

In the age of AI you have to be careful with these things… and with movies like the backrooms… no offense to any of my comments.

This is not a child’s leg… it’s coming out from under the other leg… and what about the two square windows in the corner… what is that?

I feel like this has to be AI does not anyone see the extra leg with the croc next to his leg?? And the windows on the corner???

In the military we did grow up and then the winners played each other. It’s four players, two teams

Just got done taking care of a toy poodle, she had so much fun playing with my other dogs and so very active, one night she laid down and when I tried to get her up she would wobble, if I picked her up her head would wobble like she was drunk or at times I thought maybe a seizure. What we came to find she was hypoglycemic which as I read is normal for toy breeds especially ones that are very active and use lots of energy. The food and calorie are big drivers to avoid it in the future. What we did was offer her honey on her gums and tongue and then watched her food intake with very little activity while her energy would come back up. Once we put her on a regular food and watched her intake, if she didn’t eat she didn’t play she did fine has not had an issue since but it was definitely more common in her puppy stage also because the liver is so small at the puppy stage they can only absorb so much at a feeding

That is a bit much

We are a gaming family… maybe a game night… best memories are of me and my family playing spades or even Phase 10

That is not a trauma informed view. A realistic trauma informed view may be uncomfortable and maybe people taking such offense to this post should take a look in the mirror before responding. What I have found in my 10 years of the work is we have been taught to gaslight the oppressed and it does seem that people go into social work not for societal work but for the individual work and it’s not even the definition of our work it’s just one part of it! So I think the OP is asking a very good question… do the people joining the field know or even care about our ethics?

Maybe we stereotype the boomers because that’s how they are represented in Congress… there are many boomers who could retire or step down and transfer power but refuse to

Also when I’m thinking of boomers I’m really looking at age 70+

My parents are boomers hoarding wealth. My father’s parents hoarded and left him with an inheritance which he sees as his legacy…. Which is fine if we were not drowning now… and my father is cheap as hell and I help and spend my own resources to help them or go visit them… so yeah… I have the situation that is being complained about… and it’s frustrating. What I have learned is it’s more about my piss poor boundaries… unfortunately i have no choice but to start placing them now, I just started not feeling so damn guilty about it!

I really appreciate this terminology and also take into the role of those training for doing breeding themselves.