https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/blog daily 0.75 2023-01-31 https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/blog/gdhcofbdfap06qkymib0g0039ov85a monthly 0.5 2023-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/464fbc2f-bde6-48d2-85ff-1451506d8574/bodyliberationphotos_freestock_2020-07_002.jpg Blog - New Year’s Resolutions: What to do when you feel like giving up - Make it stand out [Image description: A Black woman holds a small head of Boston lettuce. She’s wearing a casual and colorful striped dress in pinks and blues, a silver necklace with a heart pendant, and bright pink lipstick. Her hair is a medium-length, wavy deep blue wig. She’s comfortable and confident in her fat body, and pretty dubious about the lettuce. 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What’s your new year’s resolution?”] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/blog/6-things-to-know-about-perimenopause-aka-the-menopause-transition monthly 0.5 2023-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/a9eedd93-0ceb-4eb0-9bff-887809fd115e/headshot.JPG Blog - 6 things to know about perimenopause, AKA the menopause transition - Make it stand out [Image description: a head shot of Christy Reichert, therapist, a small-fat white woman with short red hair. She is wearing a black and white plaid shirt and dangly blue earrings. She is smiling at the camera.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/972e34bf-bed0-4fdb-9151-98c94889e27e/bodyliberationstock-46659.jpeg Blog - 6 things to know about perimenopause, AKA the menopause transition - Make it stand out [Image description: Two white women support each other as they eat at a table in the shade of a garden with trees and bushes on a warm, sunny spring day. 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You can see the sand next to and beneath the water, and an ocean wave is peeking out of the lower left corner of the photo.] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/blog/f4f9f2edzbpsv5afm0u0bp1uxxakdh monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/1609900957051-VCLJLRFIQH66RNGDXCBS/seal.jpg Blog - Top 3: Therapy questions and answers [Image description: a sculpture of a seal made from old nets, ropes, pieces of plastic, and other “trash” at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington.] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/blog/mothers-day-when-you-had-to-parent-yourself monthly 0.5 2022-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/1589165319761-YM57DR24KA0ABPU2JDLV/photo3.jpg Blog - Mother's Day: When you had to parent yourself This was taken last year, back when we were still allowed to go places, but I think it’s fitting for the current state of affairs. 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[Image description: a photo of Christy, a small-fat white woman with short brown hair. She is lying on a couch, a glass holding two spoons and the book Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey within reach.] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/zebras-and-spoons daily 0.75 2022-12-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/1581396713076-YB36NOWUMCJTTOT71JCU/jp-desvigne-ejpgsf8xu64-unsplash.jpg Zebras & spoons {Image description: a dazzle of zebras standing on a dirt road, with one zebra facing the camera. 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Photo credit: Disabled and Here.] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/about-me daily 0.75 2024-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/262fa18c-e67f-4b40-b533-84e2ed2331b8/lindleyashline_2023-10-28_466-Edit.jpg About me Christy Reichert, MSW, LICSW/LCSW, is a feminist, disability-justice oriented therapist specializing in helping professional women who live with chronic illness and/or chronic pain in Oregon and Washington state. [Image description: a photo of Christy, a small-fat white woman with short brown hair. She is laughing at something the photographer said. She is wearing a floral-pattern shirt and black pants. She is sitting at a desk in front of a computer and surrounded by books, including Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body; Doing Harm: The Truth About Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick; The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love; Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto; and Laziness Does Not Exist.] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/services daily 0.75 2025-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/7388c2da-6489-4f5f-9322-cba86f24e61f/Mask+up%21+Save+lives+-+Disabled+And+Here.jpg Services [Image description: Four disabled people of color block a sidewalk to protest mask bans. At the front, a Black person raises a fist while gripping a “Mask bans = Eugenics” sign and sitting in their rollator. Behind them, a Black person holds a “We keep us safe” sign while sitting. The two other protestors are staggered further back, with “Together We Mask” and “Mask up! Save a life” signs. Everyone is wearing differently colored KN-95s. Photo credit: Disabled and Here.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbf8ddd18f72258ac71c4f6/3fb075a7-dc21-48e2-a39e-bb800d119634/lindleyashline_2023-10-28_512.jpg Services - Make it stand out Christy Reichert, MSW, LICSW/LCSW, is a feminist, disability-justice oriented therapist specializing in helping professional women who live with chronic illness and/or chronic pain in Oregon and Washington state. [Image description: a photo of Christy, a small-fat white woman with short brown hair. She is wearing a floral-pattern shirt and black pants. She is holding a copy of the DSM-5, looking at it in horror and disgust and preparing to throw it in the trash.] https://www.dazzlingspoonscounseling.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dbbca5e4b090699000a2b6/1408024912028-NID23B61L4HJ0B3VYYKL/image-asset.png Read Me Photography by Julia Robbs