
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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The Weight Watchers (WW) App and Your Child's Weight
Should you help your child with their weight by signing up for the new WW app? Read what professionals are saying about the app, specifically warnings about danger of using it. Included are references if your goal is to help your child grow up to eating problems and develop a healthy body image,
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.
Weight Goals and Body Hatred : The Truth
Many think they have to hate their body to do something about it. However, body hatred actually makes fear, anxiety, and chronic body dissatisfaction worse, it makes body image worse. You end up feeling terrible about yourself, and that makes it hard to take good care of yourself. Dump the body hatred if you want to get healthy!
Are You Avoiding Medical Care for Fear of Being Weighed?
Medical professionals often fat shame and blame medical conditions on weight. Find out how to deal with it, and how to find a doctor that will treat you with respect so that you can get good medical care. (And fat shaming hurts thin people too). Includes list of recommended doctors in the Gainesville FL area.
The Enneagram: What’s My Type?
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.
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.
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?
Two Forms of Eating that Feel Out-of-Control
There are two forms of eating that can feel out-of-control: deprivation-driven eating and emotional eating. Most people think that out-of-control eating is mostly emotional. Actually, it is far more likely that ‘over’eating is deprivation-driven.
Perfectionism: A Search for Fault
Perfection promises joy but brings exhaustion. Find freedom in choosing “good enough.”
Have You Become "Exercise Resistant?"
Exercise is often used as a way to lose weight or shape the body, to enhance our sense of self-worth, or simply because we think we should. It's not fun, and we don't think it is supposed to be. You may think you are lazy or have a character flaw, and need to force yourself to get to the gym. But what if you have actually become "exercise resistant?"
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.”
A Twist on the Ol' Lose Weight / Get in Shape New Year’s Resolution
Heading into the New Year, weight loss and get fit advertisements are everywhere. But what if this year, instead of making resolutions to lose weight, you decided to set your intentions to take care of yourself differently? To give yourself more of what you really need?