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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 individuals with unlimited funds to spend on groceries, restaurants, and late-night takeouts. Budgeting can be integrated seamlessly into the practice of intuitive eating. I’ve partnered up with ALDI to bring you this post, meaning...
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...
9 Books for Improving Your Relationship With 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 9 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...
Intuitive Eating with Food Allergies or Sensitivies
When learning about intuitive eating you will often hear ‘listen to your body’, 'make peace with all foods' and 'all foods can fit'. These phrases may not resonate if you have food allergies, food intolerances or need to follow a medically-necessary diet. But there...
What is Intuitive Eating?
Intuitive eating is an approach to health and food that has nothing to do with diets, meal plans, discipline or willpower. It teaches you how to get in touch with your body cues like hunger, fullness and satisfaction while learning to trust your body around food...
Why I Finally Decided to Become a Dietitian
This is a guest blog post written by Katy Zanville, a nutrition intern with Alissa Rumsey Nutrition and Wellness and a soon-to-be HAES/intuitive eating dietitian. Check out her story about why she left the field of nutrition for over 10 years, and what finally brought...
How to Explain Intuitive Eating to a Friend
It’s one thing to apply the principles of intuitive eating and reject the diet mentality, but for many, sharing these ideas with friends and in social situations can be a major point of stress. If you feel this way too, you are not alone! Building a strong support...
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