Helpful Blogs

As you educate yourself around the politics of body image and diet culture, you'll come across words that you might not have encountered before. Here's a handy glossary to introduce you to these new ideas. This is a work in progress. I will continue to add words and refine definitions. I invite you...

It may sound like a preposterous connection to make: Diet Culture and the ancient practice of Chinese foot-binding!? Really? Surely they are poles apart??? After all, Chinese foot binding involved small girls, under the age of 9, having the bones in their feet repeatedly broken and then tightly bound...

Dear father, mother, spouse, partner, grandma, granddad, uncle, auntie, sister, brother, son, daughter, cousin, friend, acquaintance, co-worker, person-on-the-street-I've-never-met, I am writing this because in the past, you've made comments about my body. You've wolf-whistled as I've walked in the...

If you know me, you'll know that I'm fascinated by how we use language - and how that affects our experience, our actions, and therefore our results. Think about this. I want an ice cream When you tell yourself you 'want an ice cream' you're giving your brain a goal for eating, which manifests in a...

One primary need we have as human beings, is a sense of belonging. Belonging to a family, group, tribe, culture, religion, nation, belief system etc. On a primal level, when we belong, our chances of survival massively increase - and not simply our survival as individuals - belonging protects the...