Our words have power. Words can carry love and comfort, joy, and peace; however, they can also carry hurt and perpetuate stigma. Stigmatizing language can be overtly recognizable but, more commonly, it is covert and subtle. What can we do to minimize our own stigmatizing language?

Our relationship to our bodies is simultaneously the most intimate, connected, informed relationship and the most volatile, time-consuming, and fragile one. Our bodies are wise. They house intuition and cues; they know.