How to Create a Great Relationship with Your Body
Reflect on this: You and your body are in a relationship. It is the longest relationship you'll ever have. It's a relationship you have no choice over. People say you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. This is true. However, you can choose not to be in a relationship with your...
Read moreWhy You Binge and How to Stop
The main reason people binge eat is due to restriction. There are two kinds of restriction that matter: physical restriction and mental restriction. Physical restriction Physical restriction means dieting. It also means trying to lose weight intentionally (you may not call it a diet, you may call...
Read moreWhat I Sacrificed at the Altar of Thinness
Diet Culture is devoted to worshipping at the altar of thinness. For a long time - decades - I was a devotee. I bowed in deference to the rules. I praised all those who were succeeding or at least trying to be thin. When I sinned (by daring to eat until satisfied or by daring to eat high-sugar foods),...
Read moreHow to Get Quick Results
Diet Culture and in fact our aggressive capitalist structure overall, school us into craving quick results. We value speed. Perhaps it would be truer to say that we have been taught to believe that speed and fast results are essential. As tempting as it is, this blog isn't going to be a sociological...
Read moreHow to Sit with Your Feelings
A big part of the work that I do with clients, is to teach them how to allow their emotional feelings. Most of us are conditioned to allow the so-called 'positive' feelings (joy, happiness, excitement, love, gratitude) and to attempt to change, get rid of or suppress the so-called 'negative' feelings...
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