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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?.
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.
Overview of Disordered Eating
Disordered eating occurs when a person's attitudes about food, eating, exercise, weight and body size or shape causes them to have rigid eating and/or exercise habits that interfere with their health, happiness or safety. Learn about the different forms of disordered eating.
The Enneagram: Learning More About Yourself and What Makes You Tick
The Enneagram is a powerful personality typing system, intriguing in its depth and accuracy. It is also an ancient tool used for personal and spiritual self-discovery. Learning the Enneagram, and its 9 key personality types, and discovering your own, is eye-opening.
Perfectionism: A Search for Fault
Perfection promises joy but brings exhaustion. Find freedom in choosing “good enough.”
The Problem with Dieting—and What to Do Instead
We began our careers putting people on diets, as we were taught to do. It did not take long to realize that there was no magic in food restriction. In fact, it became painfully obvious that dieting is fraught with failure, heartache, and deprivation. Simply put, we learned that diets cause problems. To find out how, simply read on.
The Very Small Step That Matters Big Time
Do you try to change your eating, and then feel like a failure when you don’t succeed beyond the initial enthusiasm? If you make plans about your food and eating that are actually out of reach, those plans will eventually become a source of frustration.
Reducing the Squid Factor In Your Life
In January, I wrote about the importance of connection. But disconnection is also necessary for creating a healthy, happy life, and to be able to successfully manage food and weight. Check out these real life tips on how to disconnect.
That Sane Place Between Selfishness and Self-lessness
Our culture encourages us to believe that if we get enough, we will be enough. So we keep trying to get more-- more love, more attention, more success, more weight loss. But it never seems to be enough to make us feel better.
The 609,115 Calorie Omelette
Last weekend, I watched a 12 foot omelette being made in Abbeville, Louisiana. In fact, I drove 20 hours round trip to see it. And I learned something very important along the way.
Dieting Makes Little Girls Fatter, Study Finds
Girls who are unhappy with their body size (or who have parents, coaches, etc., who are unhappy with their body size) may try to manage their weight. But research shows that the vast majority of those who try will then end up fatter.