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Body Positivity Journaling Prompts
How often do you take time to reflect on your relationship with your body? For many of us, the answer is “not enough.” Between the pressures of daily life, society’s expectations, and our own inner critic, it’s easy to lose touch with the love and gratitude our bodies...
What does it mean to be Feminine in today's world?
In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Leila and I talk about the Beauty Myth, Feminine ideals, the Feminine Mystique, the divide within the body positive movement and so much more. Even though women all over the world have made great movements toward...
Your Life, Your Success – An Update
In this short update, I share what I've been up to and encourage you to check out the new podcast Escape Diet Prison.
The message Oprah's Weight Watchers' ad sends out to the world
Oprah's Weight Watchers' ads are all over American TVs these days creating more frustration than inspiration in women everywhere. Ever since Oprah got financially involved in the weight loss industry, there's been an outcry amongst those of us who do not dedicate...
How to heal the in-between binges
Do you struggle with the in-between binges? The ones that arise when you feel super stressed? When they’re no new clients, not enough money, just no flow? It’s SO easy to get triggered into an epic binge or even “just” a big ol’ emotional eating orgy when things just...
Weight Bias and Stigmatization – Let's Talk About It
In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Deb, Leila and Anne-Sophie take on the subject of weight bias. There are so many (long debunked) "facts" circulating around weight that judging those who are not stick thin is a favorite past time of many and is -...
Overcome Overeating: Take Control of Your Relationship with Food
Have you ever found yourself finishing a bag of chips or an entire box of cookies in one sitting, only to feel the crushing weight of guilt afterward? If so, you’re not alone. Millions struggle with the urge to overeat and the shame that follows. You might have tried...
Thank you, 2016
Another year has flown by and despite this year feeling heavy and turbulent, I want to take a moment to reflect and shift my awareness from darkness to the light that 2016 brought. So, here I am saying thank you, 2016. Thank you, 2016 for the love I was given,...
… because I should!
In this last episode of 2017, Deb and I talk about how we love up our bodies now that we are free of dieting and body-shame (or if we even do it), vacations and (possible) weight gain, the best parts of 2016, our intentions for the New Year and so much more. Read Deb...
Are there any Downsides to Not Dieting?
In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison podcast, Deb and I share our views on what body-love actually means. We talk about the positive and the negative sides of not being part of the dieting club anymore and more. Read Deb Oswald‘s blog here and follow her on...
How to Stop Sabotaging Yourself
When you’re a woman, you know of all the forms you can self-sabotage your diet: basically, if you eat, you sabotage your life. Why would you ever do that? I am kidding, of course. But that is what we’re being told: we shouldn’t eat, shouldn’t look like this or that...
Where do you think you're going? An Ode to Being Average!
When you're caught in the dieting trap, the only way you're going is backwards. Or maybe you're going in circles, gaining weight, losing weight, maintaining it for a year, gaining weight, losing weight and maintaining it until the diet doesn't work anymore. And thus...