Fat Bubble: Your Girl Jeannie
Coming in this week with a l’il ray of sunshine, Your Girl Jeannie!
Jeannie is an Indonesian body acceptance advocate who uses her Instagram as a mini-blog to share thoughts, feels and looks. In her intro she says, ‘I’d love for you to think of me as your best friend on Instagram, and my goal is to humanise this platform and make it as real and as vulnerable as possible’, which I just love! So much of my work is about learning how to accept the vulnerability and imperfection of our humanness, and we need this message reinforcing again and again.
Jeannie also shares her surfing adventures, which I lovvvve. And recently she has shared more of her Endo journey, which I know will resonate with many and, again, we need more and more of this representation.
I love her #JeanniesPepTalk hashtag, because I’m a big fan of developing our Inner Cheerleader. Most of us are pretty well acquainted with our Inner Critic, but we struggle to treat ourselves with the support and encouragement that we would give to other people. Sometimes, it can feel impossible to even know how to phrase internal encouragement. So I’m really here for Jeannie’s pep talks, acting as a kinda script, that we can normalise being unfinished and messy, and that these vulnerable parts of are really some of the best bits of ourselves, because they are the most human parts of us. When we can identify our external cheerleaders – both in our social circle and in our parasocial circle – we give ourselves a blueprint of how to extend this kind of tone to ourselves.
Following Jeannie really brings a smile to my face, and also gives me great food for thought, and I hope you will all love adding her to your Fat Bubble!
Btw, I’m typing this at my desk next to a bowl of Kopiko, which are Indonesian coffee candys, which I grabbed the last time I went to my fave Asian supermarket. I always have snacks within arms reach in my work room, because our brain and body needs fuel and our mouth needs flavours! Hop over to this Instagram post to hear me talk more about the need to incorporate/reincorporate snacks – both functional and fun – into your relationship with food.