
Nurturing Food Freedom and Body Confidence
Eating Wisdom Blog
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Where stories meet science, and insight meets compassion.
Here you’ll find thoughtful reflections, practical guidance, and gently rebellious truths about food, body image, and healing. Whether you're just beginning to untangle from diet culture or deep into the work of attuned eating, there's something here for you.
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What Have Your Thighs Done For You Lately?
What if your body was never the problem? This powerful read invites you to see your body through a whole new lens.
Diet Culture Teaches Us To Fear Eating: Reclaim Your Birthright
Diet culture taught us to mistrust our bodies. But what if we chose reverence and grace over control and guilt?.
Filling Up On Salad: The Fallacy of Volume Fullness
We’ve been taught to chase fullness on the cheap—piling our plates with low-calorie, high-volume foods. But there’s another cost we don’t talk about.
Why Wanting to Be Thin Feels Better Than Being Thin
Explore why the fantasy of being thin can feel more powerful than reality—and how constant longing keeps us from truly living.
Beyond the Mirror: A Symbolic Look at Food and Body Angst
What if food and body struggles aren’t really about food or your body? They’re often symbols, pointing to deeper emotional hungers beneath the surface.
Are You Being Followed by the Body Police? A Not-So-Serious Look at a Serious Issue
The Body Police Quiz is a playful take on body image—and a nudge toward silencing your inner critics and seeing yourself differently.
Obesity Paradox or Inconvenient Truth? Rethinking the Research
Discover what the obesity paradox reveals about the hidden biases shaping weight and health research, and learn about the research that doesn’t make the news.
Kids, Eating and Weight: What the Research Is Telling Us
Discover what the research says about your child’s weight, and health—and why our current approaches may be doing more harm than good.
Reflection Addiction: Break Free from the Grip of Body Checking
If you're tired of the mirror holding power over your mood, this compassionate read unpacks the hidden reasons we obsess over our reflection—and offers a path toward freedom.
Weight Loss, Health, and Success: What Does the Research Say?
Everyone knows you can pick a number on the scale, change your food and exercise and get to that weight and stay there, right? Yet no scientific research exists which shows this this is possible. A quick look at the research and what you can do.
Consequences of Fat Shaming by Health Care Providers
Fat shaming in the medical field isn’t just unkind — it’s dangerous. This eye-opening post breaks down how weight bias harms patients, delays care, and damages health.
How to Overcome Exercise Resistance and Become Joyfully Active
Professionals tend to view “exercise resistance” as a behavioral problem or worse, a character flaw. They focus on education, motivation and other behavioral strategies to get us moving. However, if you are exercise resistant, if you have a conscious or unconscious block against becoming physically active, these strategies will not work for you. To become joyfully active, a shift away from “exercise think” is needed.