A Life-Giving Vision of Fat Bodies in the Church
Kristen Gilfillan presents her powerful talk from Symposia 2018 on diet culture, body oppression, and “A Life-giving Vision of Fat Bodies in the Church.”
Kristen Gilfillan
Kristen Gilfillan (MA in Counseling Psychology, ’13) is committed to inviting people to be more alive: in her private practice she works with clients who want to feel more at home and alive in their bodies; she also works in a psychiatric unit in a hospital, which often means working with people who have recently attempted to end or are contemplating ending their lives; and in her work as a consultant, she invites people to notice and mark the significant moments in their lives through grief or celebration (or often both), in the hope of embracing the true fullness in their lives.