007: The Trauma of Being Fat with Cheryl Fuller PhD

In this interview, I talk with Cheryl about The Trauma of Being Fat.

Cheryl Fuller is a Jungian psychotherapist living in the US. She is passionately interested in depth psychology, psychotherapy, feminism and fat studies. Her book, The Fat Lady Sings, weaves these threads into a tapestry of personal experience, critique of psychoanalytic theory and treatment of fatness, in the context of the war on obesity. Hers is the life of a fat woman thus her interest in the lived experience of fat people, the absence of such voices in discussions of weight, and in the effects of fat phobia and the cultural fat complex. She holds a BA in Psychology from Duke University, MA in Clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut, and PhD in Jungian Studies from the Union Institute.

In The Trauma of Being Fat, Cheryl talks about:

Cheryl’s experience of living in a fat body
Becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist
How losing weight is not the solution
Size representation in the media
What doctors miss when they solely focus on weight
The Fat Lady by Irvin Yalom
Therapists, fat bias and how they need to do work on their own bodies
Microaggressions and the trauma of living in a fat body

Cheryl and I mention the following resources in The Trauma of Being Fat:

This is US 15 Bingeworthy Shows to Embrace Body Diversity, Body Positivity and Body Love

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Bodies by Susie Orbach

The Owl Was the Baker’s Daughter by Marion Woodman

The Fat Lady by Irvin Yalom

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Cheryl’s Website

Jung at Heart Psychotherapy on Facebook

DrCheryl on Twitter

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The Psychosynthesis Centre Facebook page

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Jodie Gale is the founder of TraumaWarriors.Online, host of the Trauma Warriors with Jodie Gale podcast, an Eco-Psycho-Spiritual Psychotherapist, Complex Trauma Expert, Mind Body Eating + Plant-Based Nutrition Coach. She is a leading specialist in women’s emotional, psychological and spiritual health and well-being. Over the last 20 years, Jodie has helped women to transform and heal their lives from complex trauma, disordered eating and the trance of unworthiness. She has a private psychotherapy, counselling and life-coaching practice in Manly, Frenchs Forest and Allambie on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, Australia. Jodie is passionate about helping women befriend, connect and nourish their whole selves: body, feelings, mind and SOUL!

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