#40: Sabina Singwell

Sabina Singwell is a writer, social scientist and creatrix of the School Of Bitchcraft. She helps her clients “who are trapped in weight loss hell” achieve a healthy relationship with their bodies & food. We talk about the word “bitch”, Feminism & The Patriarchy. She describes her disillusionment with academia after getting her PHD in Political Science and shares insights on disordered eating, meaning-making & choosing new narratives for one’s body.  She also relates how she took her husband’s surname 14 years after getting married despite what her twenty-something self may have thought.

“I could not conceive of any logic for why a woman would change her name when she got married. Fourteen years later … (I took my husband’s last name).  For me, what it was about ultimately: I had an extremely chaotic childhood. When I quit trying to manipulate my body and I was able to learn how to deeply trust my body, I found this deep well of self-trust. And when I connected so deeply with that self trust, I realized all the shit that I went through in my childhood didn’t leave me a broken person. I am a deeply whole (and deeply flawed) person, but there is nothing wrong with me. And when I realized that, and I absolutely never would have gotten there if I hadn’t also given up chronic dieting, I wanted a symbol of how much I had divested myself from beliefs I had about myself as a result of my childhood. And because of the loving family that I had made with my husband and my daughter, the love that we have really also contributed to my transformation, that’s when I decided that I was also gonna take the same last name as my husband and my daughter because I got so much more love from the family unit that we created than I had ever experienced in my birth family.”

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SABINA SINGWELL
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