by Karen | Jun 11, 2020 | Body Image, Food & Nutrition, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Recovery
What is diet culture and the diet mentality? Diet culture is defined as a system of beliefs, messages, and behaviors that places value and focus on weight, shape and body size over and above health and well-being. The messages of diet culture are that weight and body...
by Karen | Jan 20, 2020 | All, Food & Nutrition, Health at Every Size
I finally saw #gamechangers and while it wasn’t a game changer for me personally, I know a lot of people are now jumping on the vegan bandwagon. Game Changers argues that eating any animal products—including meat, fish, eggs, and dairy—can worsen athletic performance,...
by Karen | Jan 17, 2020 | All, Health at Every Size
As much as Intuitive eating is getting more press and media these days, diet culture is still alive and kicking. Unfortunately, in spite of all our efforts to #enddietdietculture, people are still doing the Keto or the Noom or the whatever. Dieting is too seductive...
by Karen | Dec 1, 2019 | All, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating
The challenge with the holidays is there’s a lot of focus on food and eating. There are multiple holiday parties, family food gatherings, and it seems like holiday cookies are everywhere. The problem however is NOT the Holiday food itself; the problem is our...
by Karen | Nov 4, 2019 | All, Body Image, Mindful Eating
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt,...
As a Nutrition Therapist and Certified Intuitive Eating Coach with a background in both nutrition science and psychology, I guide people to find their own philosophy of eating which results in freedom and empowerment around food and weight issues. 