Jul 28, 2022

There’s a huge overlap between eating disorders and trauma, which can make it especially challenging to recover from these conditions. It’s common for people to spend years and years in treatment, and to continue to struggle with their symptoms.

When traditional forms of treatment, such as talk therapy (including...

Jul 26, 2022

What comes to mind when you hear the word “exercise?” The truth is, most of us existing in diet culture have a distorted view of exercise. 

Diet culture tells us:

• Exercise to burn calories and lose weight. (pssst…that’s actually not now it works!)
• The more intense and extreme, the better! (e.g. HIIT? Yes,...

Jul 19, 2022

You know that feeling - the feeling of guilt and shame after you eat way too much?

(And let me be clear…by “too much” I mean more than your body wanted and therefore you’re uncomfortably full. “Too much” is often a construct handed to us by diet culture trying to tell us how much we are allowed to eat....

Jul 12, 2022

You see, the diet industry might be toxic in some ways, but to their credit these companies are VERY good at marketing and giving people what they want (even if it’s not actually what they need). I was recently lucky enough to get the inside scoop about what diet companies aren’t telling consumers, and it’s...

Jul 5, 2022

What exactly is “intuitive eating?” Most people hear the term and they assume they know what it means just based on how the words make it sound. They think “Oh, intuitive eating must mean eat whatever you want, whenever you want.” And that actually couldn’t be further from the truth. 

Let me explain…So if...