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Easter Bingeing
Easter used to be a big old binge fest for me. I'd wake up before 6am anticipating the chocolate, the cakes, the Easter feast. Before Easter, I'd restrict for weeks in order to then be "allowed" to eat, to dig in, to inhale chocolate Easter bunnies and eggs without...
What Your Life Could Look Like – If You Accepted Your Body As It Is
One of the questions I get asked over and over again is what my life looks like now that I truly accept my body. What has changed since I gave up dieting for good? Is my life better? Worse? The same? Is my body totally out of control? Is my appetite insatiable? Do I...
Stop Waiting for Your Life to Begin
Now’s the time to stop holding on to your thin privilege, your phantasy of losing the weight once and for all, your desire to be someone you’re not.
I don’t want to heal… But I do.
You're fed up with how you relate to food and your body and you just know that you know that you must do something anything to stop hurting being in so much terror all day every day and you want to you really do but in the everyday life the daily actions you cannot...
Allow your story to evolve
Just because something was true back in the day, doesn't mean it's true now. Just because you once felt sad and alone, doesn't mean you have to hold on to those feelings forever and ever. Just because you were once betrayed, doesn't mean that'll be the story of your...
Your Willingness to See Things Differently
A BIIIIG part of healing your relationship with food and your body - no matter where you are on the spectrum of weight - is your WILLINGNESS to change. You WILL NOT - and I repeat WILL NOT - change if you stomp with your feet and yell and scream that the way you've...
When you feel betrayed by your body
Sometimes when you feel you're doing everything right, it's really hard to accept that your body has other plans. Sometimes when you are eating "good" and you are taking care of yourself, it's really hard to surrender control to your body's needs. Sometimes -...
The Long Road
Yes, escaping diet prison takes time. It is a long road. A winding road. It's a road that often feels like a circle. It's a road that often feels unending. It's a road that challenges you, stretches you, re-births you. It's a road that can also crush you - if you try...
Body-Confidence After Being a Diet-Addict
Thin. Frail. Skinny. Shadow-y. Delicate. Small. Body be gone. Words and thoughts that circle in our minds when we're addicted to being the smallest version of ourselves. Maaaaybe there's an aspect of wanting to be toned and strong in our thinness, but mostly, it's...
You do not have to earn your food
You do not have to be "good" for five days in order to eat that slice of cake or that bite of a donut. You do not have to punish yourself with a long workout because you had "too much" to eat. You do not have to place your worthiness as a human being on your eating...
When "Love Your Body" Is More Harmful Than Helpful
You can see the "love your body exactly the way it is" messages all over the Internet these days. These love your body messages are quite common. And that is fantastic. Heck, I'm part of the movement, I even wrote a book about it. Yet more and...
My Top 10 Experiences of 2018
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain We made it. We may have gone mad. But we made it. Another trip around the sun, another year behind us, 365 sunrises that gave us a brand new chance to be who we've always...