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What is the Health at Every Size (HAES®) Approach?
The Health at Every Size (HAES®) approach to health is an alternative to the widely accepted weight-centric approach. In this post, we'll explore the answer to the question: What is Health at Every Size (HAES)? by examining the pitfalls of the weight-centric approach,...
5 Reasons Why BMI is Totally Bonkers
The Body Mass Index (commonly referred to as the BMI) has become the primary way that doctors and other healthcare professionals decide whether or not we are "healthy." If you're in the "overweight" or "obese" category, you're automatically told you need to lose...
Is Weight Really the Problem?
If you care about your health and the health of those around you, it might be a good time to ask yourself: Is weight really the problem? Read on to better understand where our focus on weight comes from (and no, it's not for the health, wellbeing, or self-confidence...
How To Heal Your Relationship With Food In The Kitchen
Dieting and diet culture can make cooking a not-so-enjoyable experience. When you're working to move away from diet culture, the kitchen offers a beautiful opportunity for healing and growth towards a healthy relationship with food. In this post, my intern (and...
How to Manage Eating and Body Image During Social Isolation
If you're socially isolating for Coronavirus, you may notice a change in your eating behaviors, stress levels, and how you feel about your body. All of this is normal! Read on for tips on how to manage your food and eating behaviors during the quarantine. ...
How to Respond to Diet Talk
One of the most common conversations I’ve had with clients over the past month has been around navigating conversations around diets, dieting, weight in the height of diet culture – January. In this blog, I’m breaking down common situations where diet talk comes up and how you can respond.
Tips for Practicing Intuitive Eating on a Budget
Intuitive eating is not reserved for people with unlimited funds to spend on groceries, restaurants, and late-night takeouts. Learn how to practice intuitive eating on a budget. I’ve partnered up with ALDI to bring you this post, meaning I was compensated for my time,...
Intuitive Exercise Q&A
The principles you learn for intuitive eating can be helpful for practicing intuitive movement (also referred to as joyful movement, intuitive fitness, or intuitive exercise). That said, the exercise space presents challenges of its own in regards to overcoming diet...
17 Best Intuitive Eating Podcasts
Podcasts are a great way to dip into the world of intuitive eating, or to dig deeper into specific topics related to intuitive eating. Many of my colleagues who are experts in this area host fabulous podcasts. Here is a list of 17 of the best intuitive eating podcasts...
Self-Care Holiday Gift Guide 2019
This holiday season give your loved ones the gift of self-care! I pulled together this self-care holiday gift guide: a list of my favorite clothing items, artwork, tools, and entertainment for starting the new year off in a healthy place physically and mentally. You...
10 Books for Improving Your Relationship To Food
Taking the leap into intuitive eating can feel anything but intuitive at first. Consuming anti-diet content - like books and podcasts - that delve into intuitive eating and the non-diet approach can be really helpful. Here is a list of 10 of the best intuitive eating...
How to Find Body Positive Fitness Options
When we start to move again for reasons other than weight loss, we may find that we actually enjoy our old types of exercise, or we may find ourselves looking for something that inspires more joy. In this post we'll talk about what body positive fitness is and tips...
Intuitive Eating During the Holidays
Eating during the holidays can be a source of stress, anxiety, and tension for many. Practicing intuitive eating during the holidays can help ease the tension and help you find more peace and joy with food. Here are six tips for intuitive eating during the holiday...
How Do Makeup & Beauty Products Relate to Body Image?
Having a positive body image doesn't mean that you stop caring about your appearance. But what it means is that you have a choice about which beauty ideals you partake in, and which you don't. Learn more about the history of body image and beauty ideals and how to...
What Does “Healthy Body Image” Mean?
Having a healthy or positive body image sounds great in theory, but if you're not 100% clear on what that would actually look like for you, let alone how to get there, you're not the only one. Before you can have a healthy body image you need to determine what this is...
How to Navigate Your Fear of Weight Gain
Recently I was talking with a new client about intuitive eating, when they said “This sounds great, but what will happen to my weight?” If this is one of your barriers to learning more about intuitive eating or healing your relationship with food, you are not alone....
What is Body Respect?
If you struggle with the idea of loving your body and find that it feels like a foreign and unattainable concept, we get it. The true goal is that you start to move from a place of body hatred to a place of body respect so that you can take care of your body both...
24 Benefits of Intuitive Eating
Food freedom and a better relationship with food are two of the benefits of intuitive eating...but what do those things mean exactly? Read on for 24 (relatable!) intuitive eating benefits that you can see as you move through this process. Unlike dieting,...
How to Practice Intuitive Movement
Movement is an important aspect in our day-to-day lives and it makes up the 9th principle of intuitive eating. The philosophy behind intuitive eating is applied to intuitive movement (referred to within this post interchangeably as intuitive exercise): listen to your...
Our Favorite Body Positive Instagram Accounts
One of the easiest things we can do for ourselves to change our perception of our bodies and be kinder to ourselves is to revamp who you are following on social media. Here's why changing who you follow on social media will help you improve your body image followed by...
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