“I feel so betrayed by my body. Why is it so broken?”

This question arrives often in my clinic - usually from women whose bodies have been carrying pain, vigilance, and exhaustion for a long time. What if the body isn’t broken at all, but responding exactly as it was shaped to?

I haven’t stepped on my scales for years; but I still haven’t thrown them away.

The story of how I learned to tend to the part of me that was using my scales as an advent calendar to the perfect day and why healing was never going to be as simple as smashing up the scale or using willpower to stop weighing myself…