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...
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...
Obsession. It never works. Whether you want to manifest something in your life or whether you want to find the love of your life or whether you want the body of your (brainwashed) dreams. Obsession does not work. It gives you pain. It gives you terror. It gives you...
Stop telling yourself you don’t have what it takes – when you don’t even know what that means. Stop telling yourself freedom is reserved for everyone but you – when you’ve never even tried. Stop telling yourself that because you’ve...
Here’s a truth: I still don’t love my upper arms. I still think they’re too big and that my shoulders are too much. I still sometimes shy away from wearing sleeveless shirts or tank tops. I still want to hide them in photos or...
aquieterstorm.tumblr.com In this episode of the Escape Diet Prison Podcast, Deb Oswald, Leila Hays and I talk about the many ways in which we turn against the body when life is not going as planned and what you can do in order to begin being kind and feel great in the...
You never ever fail at diets… diets fail you. You are enough… you are so freaking enough… it’s unbelievable how enough you are. And yet it is totally acceptable to grow, to transform, to evolve. Accepting help and asking for support is a sign of strength and courage....
There’s a point in your life where you the pain of pursuing a thin body is so big that there’s no other way than to turn inward and begin to love yourself for who you are. There’s a point in everyone’s journey where not acting hurts...
Part of the process of healing your body image is to actively begin to change your attachment to your thoughts, the way you go through your daily life, the habits you’ve formed throughout decades and the beliefs you have created about the way you must do life...
It’s all nothing It’s all everything Beautiful words are spoken Softly whispered in your ear That listens without hesitations Without saying no to all the compliments You hear Your body’s heart opens wide She wants to be loved by the person inside The person that is...
