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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Nourish Your Type: What Happens When the Enneagram Meets Intuitive Eating
Intuitive eating asks for a new worldview, one beyond diet culture. This post explores how the Enneagram can illuminate your patterns and support a gentler, more grounded way of eating and relating to food.
Raising an Intuitive Eater: Helping Your Child Navigate Food in a Weight-Focused World
Think your child would eat nothing but cookies if given the chance? The truth might surprise you—and change the way you feed your family.
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.
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.
Intuitive Eating, Nutrition, and Health: What Does the Research Say?
Research about intuitive eating was sparse in the 90s, but the more people experience success, the more the scientists are taking notice, and in the recent years, we are seeing significant research confirming intuitive eating works. Following are some of the key earlier studies, plus other article relevant to intuitive eating.
Why Hunger Can Feel Terrifying And What To Do About It
Discover how paying attention (instead of pushing it away) can calm cravings and guide you back to food peace.
Aquaman and Abs: Hollywood's Unrealistic Body Standards Now Focused on Male Actors
Male body shaping is becoming increasingly prevalent. And as we consume more polished media, the line between reality and Hollywood becomes more blurred. This article aims to unpack how even a hero like Aquaman can be body shamed and how male actors now have to shape their bodies to become Hollywood superheroes.
What is Intuitive Eating? (And Why It’s Not a Free-For-All)
If you're tired of food rules and still feel lost, intuitive eating offers a different path — one that helps you reconnect with your body’s natural cues and find peace with food.
What If Your Eating Isn’t Emotional After All?
This post explains why out-of-control eating, often mistaken for emotional eating, is more commonly deprivation-driven eating. Learn the difference between physical and psychological deprivation, and emotional eating, and discover how healing deprivation allows true healing.
The Full Fridge
For those confident enough to bring food into your home, a “full fridge” embodies much more than the foods inside. Let’s reach inside and discover what’s in a “full fridge.”
So Sugar Is Bad(?): What Happens When You Avoid It
You've read that sugar is bad so you decide to avoid it. And, to avoid sugar, you have to be on the watch for it. You have to notice it, pay attention to it, so that you can avoid it. And then what happens?