Aug 3, 2020 | Life Lessons, Podcast
What if you grew up never having gone on your first diet? >If you didn’t learn salads as “good” and cookies as “bad”? >If you didn’t associate worth with size? >If you never got it stuck in your head that “I need to...
Apr 29, 2020 | Life Lessons, Podcast
We can hit a point on this path (or along many points of this path!), where we fear being “behind”. We convince ourselves that we’ve been working on this food thing or body acceptance thing for X months/years and we “should” be further...
Oct 15, 2019 | Featured, Life Lessons
When I first began dealing with all my “food/body stuff”, I was determined to do exactly what my therapist told me to do to “become” a normal eater who loved her body. I was so exhausted from battling myself every day, weary from thinking about...
Oct 3, 2019 | Food 'n Stuff, Life Lessons, Podcast
Ok, let me be honest. You may resist what I’m going to talk about. You may come up with every excuse in the book as to why you can’t do it. (I’m only talking from personal experience! 😉 ) But this conversation has come up again and again in the work...
May 28, 2019 | Life Lessons
I watched Brene Brown’s “The Call to Courage” this weekend (on Netflix here!) and it resonated with me deeply on so many levels. And it reminded me SO much of this food/body/weight journey. Brene’s message was simple: “I want to be brave...
May 15, 2019 | Life Lessons
Often times when we see a snapshot of someone’s life, we see only the perfection. In our filtered world of social media, it’s easy to think everyone else has it all together, while you are muddling through the chaos of your own life. It’s even easier...
Feb 25, 2019 | Life Lessons
If you’ve ever suffered through a “you’ve gained weight” comment, floundered through a conversation where someone asks you if you’re pregnant (you’re not), or been deeply mortified that you wear your struggle for the world to see...
Jan 2, 2019 | Life Lessons
It’s that time of year where many people get motivated to make a New Year’s resolution. The start of a year holds the promise of something new: a fresh start, a ‘better’ you, weight loss, a smaller body, healthier habits, etc. I just posted a...
Dec 11, 2018 | Body Beliefs, Life Lessons
I’ve had people tell me I needed to put up a before and after photo on my site. Because, well…the whole “look at me before and now see me after” transformation sells! The idea is that people would see my before/after pics and are supposed to...
Dec 5, 2018 | Life Lessons, Podcast
We’re diving into something we don’t often talk about on this journey: the fear of weight loss. Because we all know that weight gain fear like the back of our hands. What if people notice my weight gain? I’ll just die if someone comments on how much...
Nov 6, 2018 | Life Lessons
Full disclosure: I am writing this for myself, as well as for you. (That is, if you’re a people-pleaser at heart like I am!) Caring what others think is something I really wish I was better at. So how DO you stop caring what people think? Read on… Here are the...
Oct 24, 2018 | Life Lessons
I just got back from my honeymoon in Bali and learned a serious life lesson about “real” life along the way. (Yes, this does have to do with “why Instagram is ruining our body image”, I promise!) All of my research prior to our trip showed...
