Ambivalence

Sort of cross-posted from The Fat Chronicles: I think sometimes that ambivalence might be my middle name. I started The Fat Chronicles two and a half years ago but I have been sporadic in posting to it. There are a lot of blogs in the fat acceptance and fat activism communities, or so it seems to me anyway, and this one falls fully into neither one. I started it because I wanted to put some of my thoughts on this issue out there and because at the time I was ambivalent -- there is that word again -- about including these thoughts in with my main blog, Jung At Heart. Right there was my growing edge, my fears about what my readers would think about me if I started including posts about fat stigma and similar issues that I think about and am writing about and hope to write a book about with my thoughts about psychotherapy.  I am comfortable with being outside the mainstream in psychotherapy but to bring in my embodied outsider status made me a bit anxious and so I separated these interests. I somehow imagined that I could separate myself into these two identities and keep any negative responses that might come here out of my other life, my life as Cheryl the Jungian psychotherapist. I have written elsewhere -
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs