Care that meets you where you are
What is Nalgona Positivity Pride?
Nalgona Positivity Pride (NPP) is a community-based organization founded by Glo V. in 2014.
NPP was formed in response to years of observing who was being left out of eating disorder conversations. Many of us could not see ourselves in the stories being told about eating disorders, who develops eating disorders, or about who deserves support.
Since that time, NPP has been working toward the expansion of eating disorder education in Black, Indigenous, Latin, and other historically marginalized communities.
Our work goes beyond examining individual behaviors and symptoms. We are interested in the conditions that shape people's relationships to food, bodies, and survival. That includes histories of colonialism, migration, displacement, poverty, and anti-fatness, family systems, and cultural loss.
Over the past several years, NPP has also been engaged in the development of educational programming exploring Indigenous perspectives on eating disorders and harm reduction. This work considers how traditional foodways, relationships to land, community responsibility, ancestral knowledge, and cultural continuity can broaden our thinking about nourishment, health, care, etc.
Through trainings, community programs, public speaking, research, and educational resources, NPP generates spaces for conversations that is often absent in mainstream eating disorder education.
Today, NPP serves community members, healthcare providers, educators, students, and researchers seeking ways that take both lived experience and social conditions seriously.
Meeting people where they are
A lot of care systems ask people to commit to a specific outcome before support is available. The providers listed here work differently. They meet people at the stage they're at, without requiring a fixed path forward.
Who is here
People here work across eating disorders, substance use, trauma, disability, chronic illness, and more. Many learned their practice through their own lives or through knowledge passed down in their communities, alongside their formal training. Some come from lineages of traditional medicine and community-based healing that existed long before clinical systems did.
How this started
For years, people in our community asked each other for referrals. They wanted someone who understood what they were carrying and wouldn't ask them to leave parts of themselves out of the room. This directory is an attempt to make those connections easier to find.
Listings are self-submitted. We don't verify or vet providers, and being listed here isn't an endorsement. Look into a provider's background and trust your own read on what feels right.
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