Today we’d like to introduce you to Brianna Campos.
Hi Brianna, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
Body image has always been a topic near & dear to my heart. It’s been something I struggled with my whole life. I believed the lie that my life would not be complete until my body conformed to the standard society had set.
I believed my body size would continue to disqualify me from experiences & that I would never feel at home in my body until I lost weight. Through therapy, several body image exposures, and rewiring my thoughts and core beliefs & time – I am liberated.
Liberated from societal expectations to be small and not take up space, from my internalized fatphobia that my body was preventing me from living my best life.
We all face challenges, but looking back, would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
What road is EVER smooth? The hurdle I think no one suspects is that I managed to grieve and accept the body I had. But then when my body changed, I had to do it all over again. I was unprepared for it. I thought, “How long do I have to do this”.
The answer: for as long as you have a body. Other hurdles me and my clients have faced: are the fear of judgement, the fear of losing health, and the distress of discomfort.
What if people judge me?
What if I’m not healthy?
What if I’m uncomfortable in my current body?
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
In 2017, I was learning about Fat Positivity + IE. I didn’t know if I was doing it “right”.
I was tired of seeing people who didn’t look like me talk about bodies like me.
I stayed quiet for so long because I was scared:
What will they think of my body?
What will they think of me?
Have I healed enough?
But I did it scared. I showed up in my MESS and made it my MESSAGE. My STORY has become a witness to the world that you can stop hating your body. And you don’t have to love it or enjoy its jiggles and softness and curves. But that you will never hate yourself into self-love.
I found for myself and my clients that for those of us ready to DIVE into fat positivity but not ready to love our fat bodies, we needed space to grieve. I started teaching about body grief and over time founded the group and trademark body grievers®. Over the last few years, I have served over 100+ body grievers + have brought so many of them towards the same body Image healing I have experienced.
The wounds they start in the body grievers ® group are NOT the wounds they leave with. This Is because TOGETHER, with me by their side, we begin to EXPLORE + excavate the SHIT out of their inner critics. It doesn’t mean they NEVER struggle with body grief again — but they have learned my TRIED + TRUE Body Grievers Method.
My formula to HEAL body grief is through building awareness around your body grief, actively unlearning these hateful messages, over time in COMMUNITY. It isn’t sexy. But I promise, it’s worth it.
What are your plans for the future?
I have so many exciting things on the horizon.
This past year, I made 2 of my lifelong dreams come true: I bought a house (as a single female in the state of NJ) and I led a body-positive retreat to Costa Rica with 19 other badass body grievers.
This year we are hosting a state-side retreat (it’s already sold out!) and will start planning for our next international retreat in 2025. We continually run our group course LIVE as well as self-study and I offer many free and low-cost things throughout the year.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://bodyimagewithbri.mykajabi.com/workingwithbri
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bodyimagewithbri/
- Other: https://bodyimagewithbri.com/
