Summer can be a really challenging body image time of year. As the weather gets warmer, diet culture gets even louder and we’re bombarded with an onslaught of messaging about being “summer body ready”.

As the weather gets warmer and clothes get lighter, wearing...

Dieting by nature trains our minds to think in an all-or-nothing, black-and-white manner. In this episode, I delve deep into the detrimental effects of all-or-nothing thinking, specifically how it contributes to self-sabotage and binge eating behaviors. Listen as I explore the...

So many people struggle with emotional eating. Eating is a common response to resisting negative emotions. Doing so is actually a coping skill. However, it’s an avoidant coping skill instead of an active one. Not a big deal when we do this occasionally. But when we are using food...

Today’s topic will hopefully spark some healthy self-reflection when it comes to your eating patterns and relationship with food and your body. Eating behaviors occur on a spectrum. At one end sits healthy eating behaviors and on the other are clinically diagnosable eating...

Today I’m talking about a topic that many chronic dieters struggle with - binge eating. It’s common to have feelings of a lack of control and heap on the guilt and shame after a binge eating episode. But if you’re thinking you need to “get back on track”...

As a mom of a daughter who has two daughters of her own, I have spent a lot of time thinking about and researching ways to keep them from internalizing unrealistic body ideals and instill a healthy attitude toward their bodies, so they don’t fall into the negative body image trap that...

As a society, we spend SO much time and energy investing in the quest to shrink our bodies and criticizing ourselves for what we perceive as body flaws.

This obsession with shrinking our bodies has some real and detrimental consequences. The sad reality is that it keeps us playing...

One of the most common concerns people have when they’re at the place where they are ready to step away from dieting and learn how to apply the principles of Intuitive Eating is if they stop dieting, they will keep gaining weight.

When you've been following diets and food plans...

Learning to understand and trust our body’s hunger and fullness cues is one of the most powerful tools you can harness to have a truly healthy and sustainable relationship with food. However, years of dieting, food rules, and seeking external sources to guide our eating can cause...