Navigating Discomfort

I have been angry lately. Really f**cking angry. At the Universe. At Life. At my Past. I have been pissed at my slow internet connection. Pissed that I couldn’t work as fast as I wanted to. Pissed that I have been stuck in a traffic jam twice this week. I’m pissed....

The Best Summer Diet

Summer is around the corner. Time to get ripped, lose those five pounds you’ve put on in winter, tone your butt for your perfect bikini figure, get rid of your cellulite and your muffin top. Oh and did I mention, it’s time to diet?! It’s the same old...

Weight Cycling Co-Dependency and How to Surrender

Are you scared of disappointing a loved one should you gain more weight? Or gain the weight back? Or not lose it at all? Are you terrified of their judgment? Their disapproving eyes? Their thoughts and their words? If you are, then this is for you: You are not...

Here’s Why You Will Not Escape Diet Prison

You will NOT escape diet Diet-Binge Cycle and create freedom from your obsession with food if you continue to do the following: you refuse to write and get familiar with your deepest thoughts you are still focused on weight loss as the main goal and can’t even...

In Defense of Pleasure from Food

As a culture, as a world, we have made it a moral wrongdoing to derive any kind of pleasure from food. We look down on people who love to eat. We judge those who enjoy different kinds of sensory pleasures, who love to experience new tastes and who get (almost)...

Blank Page

Sometimes there’s this blank page staring at me and I have no idea what to write about. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens every now and then. Ideas come and go and I cannot hold on to them. I am not satisfied with them. I want more of them. I get frustrated and...

Just. Stop. Pretending.

It’s time to stop pretending that you’re fine that you’re great that you’re happy or even content. It’s time to stop pretending that you care that you dream that you have one ounce of energy left to think about what’s next. It’s time to stop pretending that you’re...

Dear Body…

Dear body, my wonderful body. I owe you a big thank you – today and every day – for everything that you have done. I owe you a huge apology – today and every day – for everything that I have put you through. Because of you, I am able to feel,...

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