Colleen Werner

(She/Her/Hers)

Colleen Werner is a dancer, writer, public speaker and therapist-in-training based in Nashville, Tennessee. Her personal experiences with an eating disorder, anxiety, depression and PTSD led her to want to turn her struggles around to both inspire and help others with similar struggles.

Colleen is also passionate about social justice and the Health At Every Size paradigm, and she aspires to create an eating disorder treatment program for dancers. Her work has been published by HuffPost, The Mighty, Mental Health America, Project HEAL, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

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April 16, 2020

Say It Brave

Radical Acceptance in the Era of COVID-19

Radical acceptance is accepting reality for what it is, despite how painful, uncomfortable, or disappointing it may be.

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