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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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.
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.
Does Your Happiness Go Up and Down With the Scale? How to Start Feeling Better
You want to feel better, and every weight loss ad promises you will feel better, and be happy, when you lose weight. And you probably do feel happier when you start your new eating program. But when you’ve lost your resolve, the good feelings go away, so you figure if you just lost a bit more weight, you’d feel better. But then it goes away yet again! How can you sustain that “better” feeling?
The “change your body” approach to joy and happiness fosters the very disconnection that is causing the distress. The combination of connection and gratitude is the key to feeling happy and joyful. Here's why.