Eating Wisdom Blog
Overview of Eating Disorders and Treatment
Eating disorders are ways of coping that involve an extreme focus on food, eating and weight, and are experienced by both men and women. They include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. These eating disorders are not choices one makes. They literally hijack a person until they have no control over their behaviors, and can have serious emotional and physical problems with life-threatening consequences.
Overview of Disordered Eating
Disordered eating occurs when a person's attitudes about food, eating, exercise, weight and body size or shape causes them to have rigid eating and/or exercise habits that interfere with their health, happiness or safety. Learn about the different forms of disordered eating.
How the Enneagram Can Help You Understand Your Eating Patterns
Understanding your Enneagram type can help you see why certain eating patterns feel so automatic. This blog introduces how each type might relate to food—with more clarity and less judgment.
Is Being Skinny Healthy?
Is being skinny actually healthier? The research on body weight and health is more complicated—and more surprising—than most of us have been taught.
Looking for Nutrition Help for a Medical Condition?
We specialize in eating disorders and disordered eating. If you need medical nutrition therapy for diabetes, kidney disease, GI concerns, or another condition, here’s one Florida referral resource—and when we might be able to help.
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.
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.
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.
Somatic Experiencing to Heal Emotional Eating
Somatic therapy can help calm and heal emotional eating, compulsive eating, and even when you feel like you just can’t quit eating. Karin is trained in a highly specialized form of somatic therapy called Somatic Experiencing, which focuses on becoming attuned to and understanding subtle body sensation in a way that the body can release stress and even past traumas.
Please Stop Trying to Shrink the Kids
What happens when helping a child be “healthy” turns into trying to make them smaller? A look at food rules, weight-loss programs, and what kids actually need instead..
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.
Body Acceptance: Are More Positive Vibes in Your Future?
Videos and books that offer new ways to see, think, and feel—starting points for cultivating more compassion toward your body.