Health Beyond Weight

I've been thinking about a conversation I had recently with a client. The person I was speaking with has spent years thinking critically about the world. They understand how systems of oppression work. They've unpacked gender norms, challenged the rules around how women and femmes are supposed to look...

Somewhere along the way, most of us absorbed a picture of our best self. It isn't always fully formed or consciously held, but it's there. A little lighter, probably. More in control around food. Less preoccupied. Someone who has it sorted in ways you don't quite yet. And almost everything, every...

There’s a new question following women around. It isn’t always spoken out loud. Sometimes it’s just a look. But if you’ve been on the receiving end of it, you know exactly what it means. A client told me recently that she’d been out for dinner with a group of friends. Someone mentioned they’d...

I want to ask you something, and I'd like you to really sit with it before you answer. When you imagine yourself thinner - what do you see? Not just the body. The life. Where are you? What are you wearing? How do you feel walking into a room? What are you doing that you're not doing now? Most women,...

Imagine starting every single day carrying a rucksack you never get to put down. It’s a constant, invisible weight that follows you into every room, every meal, every social occasion, every quiet moment before sleep. That's what it's like to live in a body you've learned to loathe. And here's...

Valentine's Day has a way of making us feel like love is something we have to earn. Be attractive enough. Desirable enough. Thin enough. Enough enough. Get the hair right, the outfit right, the body right — and then, maybe, you'll be worthy of love. Sound familiar? Because that's not romance....