THE BLOG
How Do I Respond to My Child Who Wants to Go On a Diet?
Learn more about you can help your child, adolescent, or teenager who might be engaging in dieting behaviors.
Anorexia Infertility: Trying to Conceive After Recovering From an Eating Disorder
Learn more about important factors to consider when trying to conceive naturally after recovering from an eating disorder.
Making Peace With Food Like Your Family Depends On It
How can you begin to cultivate a positive understanding of health and what it means to care for and nourish your body and your children? How can you prevent the harmful physical, mental, and emotional associations with dieting from being transmitted to the next generation?
Postpartum Body Image: To the Mama Trying to Accept Herself
I know that on many days there is a battle in your head. You may have felt disgust or animosity toward your body, unable to cope with how the landscape of your being has changed. But what if you could begin to change those thoughts and the way you view your body?
How Can I Learn to Accept My Body at It's Natural Weight?
Diet culture and media aside, countless women would attest to feeling insecure or unhappy in their own bodies, uncomfortable with their current weight, or desperate to change something about their body size.
How Is Your Dieting Mentality Influencing Your Children?
Mothers play an important role in shaping their child’s perception of weight, shape, and appearance.
Moms With Eating Disorders: There is Hope For Recovery
There are many parallels between motherhood and the eating disorder recovery journey. Learn more about the connection and process of healing.
On Motherhood and Eating Disorders: A Journey of Recovery and Healing
Read the journey of a mother in eating disorder recovery and her encouragement for building a positive body image in postpartum.
When Disordered Eating Interferes With Motherhood
Disordered eating and a dysfunctional relationship with food and body can negatively affect mothers. Learn more about the impact of disordered eating on motherhood.
This is Why You Don't Need to Compensate After the Holidays
Many New Year’s resolutions include weight loss, and sadly, dieting trends are a common way to make up for holiday eating. Learn more about why you shouldn’t diet after the holidays.
Learn How to Tune in to Your Hunger and Fullness Cues
Chronic dieting and diet culture can make it difficult to listen to your body’s basic hunger and fullness cues. Learn more about how to tune in to what your body needs to stay nourished and satisfied.
3 Tips to Navigate The Holidays While in Eating Disorder Recovery
The holiday season can be overwhelming for anyone recovering from an eating disorder. Learn how to overcome these potential stressors to maintain your recovery.
What's It Like to Be Pregnant After Recovering From Anorexia Nervosa
Eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, can cause infertility in women. Read more about my experience with pregnancy after recovery from an eating disorder.
5 Reasons You Need To Ditch Your Scale
We give so much value to what we weigh that we fail to neglect everything else in life that encompasses health and fulfillment.
Overcoming an Unhealthy Relationship With Food
The pursuit of wellness can lead to an unhealthy relationship with food and your body when obsessive and rigid. Learn how to redefine health in your own life and ultimately pursue a peaceful relationship with food.
Are You Stuck in a Dieting Death Spiral? Look For These Warning Signs
Dieting can so easily fall under the guise of being “healthy”, but when we take a closer look at all that dieting involves, can this really be true?
Haunted by Halloween Treats? Learn How Intuitive Eating Can Help
Afraid that those holiday treats might come back to haunt you? Learn more about how to integrate intuitive eating principles to nurture a more peaceful relationship with desserts and treats.
Why You Need to Stop Labeling Food as "Good" and "Bad"
Finding a middle ground with food may be the most important step you take to change the way you eat and how you take care of your body.
How to Survive Pregnancy After Eating Disorder Recovery
Pregnancy is a beautiful time in a woman's life that can also bring unexpected challenges, especially with a past or current eating disorder. Learn more about how to support eating disorder recovery and thrive during pregnancy.
Why I Smashed My Scale and Vowed to Never Weigh Myself Again
Your scale cannot measure the depth of your self-worth, character, or value as a human being. Learn to renegotiate what your weight means and your relationship with your body.