Jillian Michaels

So what I'm trying to illustrate is that many of the people who end up in that position feeling that way have chosen that feeling because it is safer than accepting you were primally abandoned as a kid.

So the idea is that if you can be better

then you'll get what you need.

If I'm externalizing shame on shit like diet culture, this origin wound never gets healed.

And if I don't accept that it wasn't them who did this to me, if I can say, wow, I let this defense structure build inside of me to protect myself at a time when it meant my psychological survival, but now this is no longer serving me, I think that's a better way to work it through.

It's pretty explicit.

Positive affirmation is like dealing with a bullet wound with a bandaid.

Shame is how shame is dealt with is an integral part of the body positivity movement.

You're saying it's not?

How shame is dealt with?

Dealt with, how people manage their shame.

It's externalized and then it's invalidated

No, I'm not.

I'm saying that the movement suggests you address shame by externalizing it.

Diet culture made me feel this way.

capitalism made me feel this way.

Gosh, there's many different pieces to this patchwork quilt.

I think... No.

No.

Then what is it?