Body Trust® and Body Liberation

Owner, Del Knight, is a Certified Body Trust Specialist through the Center for Body Trust, which means this isn't a framework we gesture toward from a distance. Body Trust, as developed by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant, is the understanding that your body is not a problem to be solved. It is not a project in need of renovation, a liability to manage, or evidence of personal failure. Your body is a site of wisdom — one that has been navigating a culture that profits from your distrust of it, and doing so remarkably well, all things considered.

Body Liberation goes a step further: it names that the difficulty most of us have trusting our bodies isn't a personal shortcoming. It's the predictable result of living inside systems — diet culture, white supremacy, ableism, transmisogyny, fatphobia — that have a long history of deciding which bodies are acceptable, which are legible, and which deserve care. Healing the relationship with your body, from this framework, is not just personal work. It's political. It's an act of reclamation.

In practice, this might look like slowing down enough to notice what your body actually feels — not what it's supposed to feel. It might look like grief, or rage, or the quiet radical act of deciding you don't owe anyone a different body than the one you have today. It might look like untangling what you were taught about food, rest, movement, or health from what your own body has been trying to tell you all along. It isn't linear, it isn't tidy, and we're not here to rush it.