The Take Up Space Therapy Blog

Reflections on burnout, boundaries, breaking cycles, and surviving late-stage everything.

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The Return of Heroin Chic Isn't About Beauty—It's About Making Women Small Again

Your Instagram feed has changed. Suddenly it's all pilates bodies, intermittent fasting ads, and wellness content that looks suspiciously like diet culture. Your hard-won body acceptance—the result of years of therapy and unlearning—feels shaky again. You know intellectually this is patriarchy. But you still feel terrible. Here's what you're witnessing: a deliberate cultural backlash designed to make women small, controlled, and non-threatening—again.

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