I’m Zoë Bisbing!

HEY THERE

I’m a body image and eating disorders psychotherapist, mother of three, and
the creator of Body-Positive Home.

Generational healing happens at home.

Like many of you, I was raised in a home infected by a legacy of food and body shame.

As I became a specialist in eating disorders and body image injury I was struck by how universally healing the treatment interventions were. I saw people of ALL shapes and sizes radically accept their bodies, make peace with food, and buffer themselves against the toxicity of our appearance obsessed culture.

I also saw families reconcile, reclaim their bodies, and redefine their values after decades of diet culture fueled strife.

But a few questions nagged at me:

Why does a person have to be diagnosed with a life impairing mental health condition before they can access such valuable, life-enhancing skills and support?

With better awareness and education could we build those buffering skills right into the foundation of the homes and schools we nurture our children in? And could we begin to heal ourselves through our efforts to “do better” for the next generation?

I brought these questions to researchers and activists, connected the dots between my clinical work, inclusive health, responsive feeding, intuitive eating, eating disorder prevention, and the body-positive movement, and translated all of it into a new, cycle-breaking way forward that I am using right alongside you…and it all starts right in our own homes.

Together we can nurture a more embodied, inclusive, self-accepting next generation —
and collectively heal ourselves while we are at it.

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body-positive home

THE ROOMS WE’LL TRANSFORM TO

  • Where we take morality out of food, reconsider how we use the word "healthy", expand our definitions of "nutritious", strategically stock our pantries and fridges, honor all cultural cuisines, confront the challenges of meal preparation, and foster important life skills in our kids.

  • Where we leverage the power of family meals, model the eating behavior we want to see, implement supportive feeding structures, foster eating competence, build food acceptance skills, nurture body autonomy, compassionately address picky eating, skillfully detect disordered eating, experiment with mindful eating, nourish our families, and reflect on our history with food.

  • Where we confront our fears (or obsessions) about mirrors, consider our relationships to the scale, notice our children's bodies change, confront our own nakedness, use bath time to build body wonder, learn lessons about body sovereignty, and escape to find peace (and scroll supportive social media).

  • Where we insist our clothing work for our bodies and refuse to shrink ourselves for fabric, prioritize comfort and support, heal and protect body image, remember our bodies are ever-changing, grieve the loss of sizes we once were, welcome bigger sizes that may bring up shame, insist on wardrobes that affirm the bodies of everyone in our family.

  • Where foster family values, model and establish rules around body talk, curate body-positive libraries, display body diverse art, and embody our commitment to body liberation for all.

  • *No actual gym required.* Where we reimagine why we move our bodies and how we talk about exercise, foster a joy of movement that supports healthy body image, navigate the aesthetic demands of competitive sports, root out extreme exercise, gently inspire inactive kids, and rebuild joyful movement practices for ourselves. *You’ll also find a portal to our one of a kind body image studio complete with personal body image trainers and "workouts" for the whole family.

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