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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Holiday Eating Through the Enneagram Lens
Learn how each Enneagram type experiences holiday triggers, stress, and eating patterns. Looks at navigating food, family, and seasonal pressures without diet culture.
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.
Your Child’s Weight: 8 Moments That Matter More Than You Think
Everyday comments about food and bodies might be influencing your child’s ability to manage their eating and weight. Find out what they are—and what to do instead to raise confident, body-trusting children.
Diet Culture Teaches Us To Fear Eating: Reclaim Your Birthright as an Eater
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.
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.
When Healing Feels Impossible: Recovering from Food and Body Struggles
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.
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.
Is Peanut Butter Unhealthy? The Case of Peanut Butter on a Rice Cake
Can adding peanut butter really turn a “healthy” rice cake into an unhealthy one? A small diet-culture moment reveals a much bigger problem with how we think about food.
An Introduction to the Eating Wisdom Guiding Principles
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.
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.
The Rebel Self Rebels: Finding a Sane Approach to Eating
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?