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 taught us to mistrust our bodies. But what if we chose reverence and grace over control and guilt?.

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.

Sometimes you may want to recover — and sometimes you may not want to. Ambivalence is normal. You don’t have to be all-in to begin.

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.

Have you been trying to manage your eating from the outside in—following the plan, using discipline, trying to get it right? What if the answer isn’t adjusting the system, but to step outside of it entirely? The Eating Wisdom Guiding Principles offer a different way forward.

You have a deeper knowing self that rebels against food rules! This Rebel Self hates those imposed rules, hates the constraint, and hates the disrespect of these simplistic solutions. This Rebel Self is tired of the disrespect implied in, "Just follow this rule, it’s easy to get healthy or lose 10 pounds." So what are you supposed to do?

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.

It can difficult to quit eating when full at first; however, the accompanying negative self-talk only makes it much more difficult. 

Be very careful the next time you look over a restaurant menu. Your food choices may not be your own. The menu layout can determine how satisfied we are at the end of the meal! Are we really that malleable? Apparently. And the big chains take advantage of it. 

Do you ever have the sense that you just can't quit eating? That there is never enough? That you are a bottomless pit? These experiences are an opportunity to look deeper, to find out what may be going on behind it. 

Mindful, intuitive eating guidelines encourage us to truly enjoy our food. "That's crazy," you might think, "If I really enjoy my food, I will eat way too much of it." But how often do you truly enjoy eating?