Food freedom is liberating, but you're still surrounded by diet culture. Diet talk can strain your relationships, and your own sanity as you try to maintain a healthy relationship with food. This post shares two of my favorite strategies for helping my clients deal with unwanted diet talk.
Read MoreAs any parent can tell you, there’s a lot of pressure to do things just “right.” The unrealistic expectations around parenting are perhaps most evident when it comes to feeding your child. This blog post looks at diet culture and feeding babies, and the harm it does to new parents.
Read MoreIf you’re feeling unhappy with your body, more than likely you are fixating on the supposed benefits of weight loss. But do you ever stop to think about what you are sacrificing or missing out on by dieting?
Read MorePretty much everyone who is interested in intuitive eating holds some desire for weight loss, because otherwise they’d already be a pretty intuitive eater. We live in a culture that is obsessed with dieting and thinness. So of course the question of can I diet to lose weight before starting intuitive eating is a common one. In this post, I dive into why you don’t have to lose weight before starting intuitive eating, and why you can start eating more intuitively today!
Read MoreWe all grow up steeped in diet culture, so of course we’re constantly battling diet mentality. Dealing with these thoughts can make eating really stressful! Read this post to learn tools for how to reframe diet mentality thoughts in intuitive eating.
Read MoreFeeling inadequate after seeing someone’s before and after weight loss picture? We’ve all seen how photoshop, different poses and clothes can distort things, but the problem with these pictures goes deeper than that. The truth about before and after weight loss pictures is that they’re a fleeting moment in time, and never communicate the whole story.
Read MoreDieting steals time and energy, our two most precious resources, and puts them towards a futile pursuit, trying to temporarily force our bodies into a smaller size. If everyone considered what they're giving up by dieting, I wonder if people would continue to try and lose weight? Here's 15 things you can do when you're not wasting time and energy dieting.
Read MoreStuck in a conversation about dieting? Diet talk has become a normal topic of conversation, but it's destructive, especially if you're trying to heal your relationship with food. When calorie counting or carb bashing comes up in conversation, pull out this list of 15 things to talk about other than dieting and change the conversation.
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