Sep 26, 2018 | Life Lessons, Podcast
What do you do when you feel unmotivated to make health changes? We’ve all had those times…where we feel overwhelmed, frustrated, and completely uninterested in doing anything that we know we “should” do to be healthy. So what’s a gal to...
Aug 1, 2018 | Freedom From Dieting, Life Lessons
If you’ve ever been in or around typical wedding culture, there seems to be this incessant desire to look “perfect”. It’s often the most photographed day of your entire life (and all eyes are on you!), so there can be this pressure to...
Jul 9, 2018 | Life Lessons, Podcast
There’s an often taboo subject on this path of being “normal” around food: that you can’t “do” Intuitive Eating AND still care about weight. People are often afraid to talk about it (and I was for awhile, too!). So I wanted to do...
Jun 11, 2018 | Life Lessons, Podcast
I’m smack dab in the middle of dealing with this myself, so I thought I’d do an episode on how to handle a situation where your spouse starts a diet. Let’s say your significant other gets on a health kick and decides they want to diet. They join...
May 9, 2018 | Body Beliefs, Life Lessons
I have a rant today about the wedding industry. (I promise this is related to hating your body 🙂 ). So I’m getting my wedding dress fitted today. And it’s bringing up a TON of old crap and the “thinner, trimmer, and smaller” body thoughts. I googled “love yourself in...
May 1, 2018 | Life Lessons
I’m often asked specifics around “how long it took me” to do something. “How long did it take you to stop binging?” “When were you able to love your body?” “How and when did you stop dieting?” “When did you...
Feb 6, 2018 | Life Lessons
When we’re kids, we have to ask for permission for everything. So, naturally, we learn to follow the rules, walk the straight edge and play it safe. As adults, we carry that same sense of needing permission before we do something, and often it keeps us feeling...
Aug 1, 2017 | Body Beliefs, Featured, Life Lessons
Whether it’s a wedding, a work event, a reunion, or some other special occasion, there’s this idea we can have when we aren’t 100% happy with our bodies: we think we need to lose weight for an upcoming event. There’s a certain seduction to losing weight or...
Mar 27, 2017 | Life Lessons, Nourishment and Self Care
The ladies in The Normal Eaters Club know that I like to be fully open, honest and transparent. I always share tidbits from my own life: food struggles, habits I want to change, emotions I’m working through and other stories that help illustrate real-life...
Nov 2, 2016 | Life Lessons, Nourishment and Self Care
Like all things food and weight loss related, every time you google something about exercise, there are a thousand different schools of thought about what you should do. Here is some of the advice I’ve heard: Exercise 30 minutes a day 5 times a week Exercise 12...
Sep 7, 2016 | Life Lessons, Nourishment and Self Care
So much of this food journey is spent beating ourselves up, berating ourselves for not being able to eat healthy (even when we know so much about nutrition), and living in this state of regret and guilt over failure around food. I used to spend days and sometimes...
Aug 15, 2016 | Life Lessons, Nourishment and Self Care
When you’re struggling with food, constantly obsessing over your body, and desperately frustrated with your weight, it’s hard not to get sucked into the promise of a quick fix. Everywhere we look we see promises of instant “solutions” to our most-pressing problems....
