To Black Women, With Love Workbook Part 1

To Black Women, With Love – Part 1 is a tender, powerful entry into a healing journey specifically designed for Black women navigating their relationships with food, their bodies, and systems that have harmed them. Rooted in cultural wisdom, somatic practices, and liberation-centered frameworks, this section invites Black women to begin reconnecting with themselves through reflection, rest, and ritual.

Part 1 focuses on uncovering the stories we’ve inherited and internalized—from the generational trauma of forced restriction and body control, to the diet culture and respectability politics that have sought to silence our needs and shrink our presence. It centers the truth that Black women’s experiences with disordered eating and body shame are not just personal, but political and historical.

Throughout this section, readers are guided with:

• IFS-informed journal prompts to begin meeting the protective and wounded parts of themselves
• Culturally resonant affirmations that speak to survival, softness, and sovereignty
• Opportunities to engage in rituals of release and nourishment—reclaiming the act of feeding and caring for oneself as sacred
• Grounding reflections on how systems like white supremacy, patriarchy, and fatphobia have impacted our relationships to food and our bodies

The chapter ends with the loving reminder that we can begin again—not from a place of shame, but from a place of reverence.