How To Survive The Holidays With Fat Phobic Family And Friends

Katherine Grace
3 min readNov 20, 2022

NOTE: Shannon Jessup on Facebook offers an alternative:
*I will have to leave with my children if this kind of conversation continues*

Shannon explains that: “You don’t get to “not let” someone talk any particular way around you, we don’t control others, we control ourselves. The boundary is that you will leave- not that you will shove a sock in another adult’s mouth to stop them from talking.”

images from the Fat & Faithful Podcast (link here)

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