Contending With The Bully Inside

The surprising way I engage with my childhood bully today

I first experienced bullies at school when I was seven years old. There were two of them - a girl who was ‘my friend’, and a boy I had a crush on. The boy had just one strategy - he would call me a ‘fat moose’. 30 years later and it still hurts to acknowledge that taunt. I had no conscious awareness of my weight or size before this started, and it was t…