Helpful Blogs

A client said something in a session this week that I want to talk about. She has been a fat activist for years. She’s grounded, political, outspoken. She's deeply connected to her values. But several difficult things in her personal life coincided, and she found herself spending money she could ill-afford...

We’ve all heard it: “That really suits you.” Sometimes it feels like a compliment, sometimes like a coded way of saying “this makes you look thinner/taller/more ‘acceptable.’” But have you ever paused to wonder - who actually decided what counts as “suiting” someone? The idea of...

You’ve seen the photos. Before: sad, ashamed, uncomfortable. After: glowing, joyful, confident - often thinner. This is the story we’re told healing should look like. That you move in one direction, steadily forward. That you reach a moment where everything clicks. That your “after”...

“I understand that dieting doesn’t work. I’m tired of obsessing over my weight. I want peace with food and my body… But I still want to be healthy.” I hear this often - and I get it. Because for so many people, the desire to be healthy isn’t just about weight. It’s about wanting...

So many of us are tired of the fight. The fight with food. With mirrors. With expectations. With the shape and size of our bodies. And sometimes, the most radical thing we can do isn’t to fight harder, but to stop. To stop trying to earn our worth. To stop negotiating with hunger or guilt. To...