Obesity 'In Your Own Words' book aims to raise awareness and spark compassion

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Obesity 'In Your Own Words' book aims to raise awareness and spark compassion
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'In Your Own Words is a collection of letters written by people with obesity to their younger selves.They are 8 Canadians who overcame stigma and discrimination to discover their resilience.. — via healthing_ca ObesityCan ObesityMatters healthing

Compelling and insightful, this booklet puts a magnifying glass on the devastating impact negative perceptions can have on people’s lives, and at the same time, invites readers to reflect on their own misconceptions about obesity — a disease that is driven by the poisonous fuel of bias, when in fact, it could be cured with awareness, understanding and compassion.

She was a school teacher, and at various points of my life and career, when I went from being a teacher to vice-principal, and from principal to regional manager to working as a director in the Ministry of Education, I would ask at her gravesite, ‘Have I done you proud, have I done well by the legacy you left me?’ I have stopped asking that question because I now know the answer to it. I am enough.

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