Nicola Haggett (she/her) is a body liberationist, coach, & mentor whose work focuses on supporting folks to move beyond body positivity to unlearn body shame, reconnect to their body, and intentionally practice their way towards a world where each of us has more safety, compassion, and joy in our body.
She also mentors and provides peer supervision for coaches, dietitians, & therapists who are exploring the edges of their own body acceptance.
Nicola is a professionally trained and experienced life coach, Certified Body Trust® Provider, and Open Heart Project Meditation Instructor.
She is also a mid-large fat human and her lived experiences navigating the world as a fat person are an important part of what she brings to her work.
We discuss:
- The Body Trust® framework
- Her journey with reclaiming the word fat
- Body stories and how to start rewriting your own
- The impact of oppression on body acceptance
- Grieving the thin ideal and the fantasy of weight loss
- Navigating the world in a larger body while on a journey of body acceptance
- Navigating pregnancy in a larger body
