Take up space - Online course

Take up space is Messy Health's new course, working with all mediums including written content, activities, and video to unlearn any beliefs you currently have about your body and sensuality that are getting in the way of you feeling peace, confident and powerful in your body. Take up space is a Health at Every SIze, Body positive, fat positive and non-diet based program.

How we feel about our body spills into so many areas of our life. Take Up Space focuses on body image and sexuality. We wanted to create a resource that showed how close the two topics are intertwined and how we cab begin to become aware of our limiting beliefs, unpack our ideas and stories around body image, sexuality, relationships and boundaries.

How are we meant to heal our relationship with our body without understanding why this relationship was fractured in the first place? How are we meant to feel comfortable in relationships, in our boundaries, in our sex life, if we don't feel comfortable in our body? Take up space addresses the reasons why we don't like our body, helps us unlearn and then relearn body acceptance, neutrality and respect.

These things are the building blocks for a solid foundation and happy relationship with our body. With this strong foundation we can build self-care practices that actually rejuvenate us, we can communicate what our boundaries are, what we’d like to explore etc.

This course is the first of its kind. It’s a blend of the usual body image work but also addresses social justice issues like fatphobia, sexism, misogyny, racism and heteronormativity.

Who is this course for?? This course is welcome to all genders, sexualities and identities and we never assume how you identify. But this course has been written by a cis-gendered, pansexual woman therefore their lived experience is limited and may not share the same lived experience (we have written this course based off of lived experience) as you and may not resonate as much. Vulva owners may find that they resonate more with the topics covered.

If you want an in-depth look of what is covered throughout the course then scroll down and check out the curriculum.