Posts tagged wellness
How to Practice Gentle Nutrition in Intuitive Eating

There’s a good reason gentle nutrition is the last principle of intuitive eating. Without doing some work to heal your relationship with food, gentle nutrition can easily become yet another a diet. However saving it for last can make it feel like a bit of a mystery. This blog post helps demystify what gentle nutrition looks like so you are able to bring non-diet nutrition into your intuitive eating practice.

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What is Mental Restriction?

Most people who come to intuitive eating have recognized how depriving themselves of the food they enjoy or adequate food fuels overeating and binging, but there’s another type of restriction that impacts your relationship with food. This blog post explains how mental restriction impacts your relationship with food, and four tips for overcoming it.

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Common Challenges with the Hunger and Fullness Scale in Intuitive Eating

f you're familiar with Intuitive Eating, then you know about the hunger and fullness scale, a tool to help you get back in touch with your hunger and fullness cues. This blog post answers some of the common questions and challenges I hear from clients in my practice when trying to apply the hunger fullness scale to their eating. 

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How to Use the Hunger Fullness Scale in Intuitive Eating

Years of yo-yo dieting and disordered eating can get you out of touch with internal cues, like your body's hunger and fullness signals. Learn how to use the hunger fullness scale in intuitive eating, a tool that can help you can back in touch with your food needs.

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Intuitive Eating and IBS Part 3: Eating Disorders and IBS

Eating disorders and IBS are both much more common than people realize, and there’s a lot of overlap between both conditions. Unfortunately, much of the advice for IBS can make disordered eating worse. Part 3 in this series on intuitive eating and IBS discusses the relationship between eating disorders and IBS, and strategies for coping with IBS when you’re in eating disorder recovery.

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Intuitive Eating and IBS: Part 1

Google what to eat for IBS and you’ll find most of the recommendations are all about eliminating certain foods or elimination diets. But these common recommendations for IBS can sometimes make things worse and not better, especially if you struggle with disordered eating. This post on intuitive eating and IBS shares how non-diet approaches can help manage your symptoms.

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A Holistic Approach to Health: Taking Care of Yourself Outside of Food and Fitness

The way we discuss health in our culture centers food and fitness. While how we feed and move our body certainly has an impact on health and wellbeing, but that’s just a small piece of the puzzle. This blog post shares ideas for taking a holistic approach to health with seven tips for improving health outside of diet and exercise.

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Four Types of Hunger in Intuitive Eating: Physical Hunger, Emotional Hunger, Taste Hunger and Practical Hunger

In intuitive eating, you hear a lot about hunger. But did you know there are more ways to experience hunger than just physical hunger? This post explores the four types of hunger in intuitive eating - physical, emotional, taste and practical - and how to respond to each.

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Understanding the Stages of Body Grief

For most people, part of the intuitive eating process is accepting that your body may be bigger than the body you have spent a good chunk of your life working towards. For understandable reasons, that can trigger some pretty intense emotions through a process called body grief. This blog post explains the stages of body grief, and ideas for processing through each.

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