by Karen | May 4, 2022 | Body Image, Body Liberation, Diet Mentality, Fat Ally, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Weight Stigma
If you are on the intuitive eating journey, at some point in time you will learn about body acceptance and the idea of “letting go of dieting” will likely coincide with the idea of letting go of your “dream” weight/size/shape. You may have spent years and thousands of...
by Karen | Feb 3, 2022 | Body Image, Diet Mentality, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Recovery, Weight Stigma
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” ~ Audre Lorde When you decide that you are done with dieting and cannot image going to another WW meeting or counting your calories in Noom or whatever, that...
by Karen | Jan 9, 2022 | Body Image, Diet Mentality, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Weight Stigma
Stepping Into the Great Unknown: Are you living an embodied life? If you struggle with disordered eating and body image issues, chances are you have learned to disconnect from your body. It isn’t safe to inhabit your body (or as I like to call the body our Earth...
by Karen | Dec 11, 2021 | Body Image, Diet Mentality, Fat Ally, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Recovery, Weight Stigma
What is Thin Privilege? Thin Privilege grants folks in smaller bodies greater access to resources compared to someone in a larger body. Those with thin privilege face less discrimination in our society that unfairly equates thinness with health as well as perpetuates...
by Karen | Oct 19, 2021 | Body Image, Diet Mentality, Fat Ally, Food & Nutrition, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Uncategorized, Weight Stigma
When I was 17 I moved to Switzerland to spend my “gap” year as an exchange student. At the time I didn’t recognize the extreme privilege in this experience. Newly graduated from high school, this was my opportunity to ski and hike the Swiss Alps. Little did I know...
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. 