Exhale Warriors

No right way to have a body

No right way to have a body

“Everybody has this concept of what body type we should have and what weight we should aim for. I gained weight when I was 8 years old because I wa...

PERSON, not diagnosis

“In the year 2015 I was at the lowest point in my life. My grandmother was diagnosed with a brain tumour and the following week, my mother was diag...

Mind your own Measurement!

“Growing up, I was a really fat kid. I was barely 10-12 years old when people I didn't even know came to me and told me I that I needed to control ...

PERSON, not diagnosis

“I’ve always enjoyed and been good at dance. Growing up in a joint family, I was the youngest. I always felt like I needed another form of expressi...

My Body My Business

“One of my earliest memories I have of realizing that I inhabit a body was when my best friend in the eighth grade spent a whole week refusing to e...

My Body, My Business

“I have been thin all my life and in school I was one of the skinny girls and skinnier than what is conventionally good looking. Around 15 years ba...

Falling in Love With Me

"Let’s talk about heartbreak. The one that only you can feel, the one that creates a series of knots in your stomach, that chokes your throat, that...

Paws > People

"We have a very active group with people from different social backgrounds so citizens who live in the slums all the way to the well to do families...

Everyone Has A Story

“When a confident, bright, nine-year old is made to stand in a crowd of over 600 students, it is overwhelming. That day, I was dressed as a boy, pl...

Falling In Love (with me)

"As you can see, I’m a brown, dark skinned Indian girl. As a little girl, I was the darkest amongst my cousins, far from the conventional stereotyp...

Not Just A Pretty Face

"The man who called me the apple of his eye. My mentor, my guide, my world. Two years ago, In the middle of the night I was awoken to find my fathe...

Paws > People

"You know how you have shitty days in school when your friends are mean to you or some boy broke up with you but he would be home and I would come ...

Everyone Has a Story

"I encounter many different people and when you meet them in the capacity of a psychologist, you’re putting aside all that judgement looking at tha...