Alethea Fitzpatrick Alethea Fitzpatrick

Resilient Leadership: Navigating Systemic Pressure & Invisible Trauma

I have to confess I still haven’t seen the movie, but I’ve been thinking a lot about this time we’re in, where “everything everywhere all at once” feels particularly acute.

Even in our own lives, aside from the political chaos of the current moment, it can feel like everything is breaking.

Or that if it’s not one thing, it’s another.

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Alethea Fitzpatrick Alethea Fitzpatrick

Patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism, and diet culture

This may seem like a bit of a non-sequitur, given that I don’t think I’ve ever talked about diet culture and fatphobia on the blog or in our work… at least not extensively.

It’s something I’ve been on a personal journey with that isn’t entirely my story to tell, and so I am realizing it is something I have held back on.

This morning, though, I stumbled on a social media thread in a group I’m not very active in that reinforced just how deeply indoctrination into patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism and fatphobia goes.

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