by Karen | Apr 9, 2025 | Body Image, Eating Disorder Recovery, Intuitive Eating, Weight loss
For many people, the journey to healing from food and body image struggles begins in the same place: a world filled with messages that thinness equals worth, health, and happiness. From a very early age, we’re taught to mistrust our bodies, moralize our food...
by Karen | Nov 13, 2024 | Diet Mentality, Eating Disorder Recovery, Emotional eating, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Overeating, Weight loss, Weight Stigma
Forbidden foods are a problem for most dieters. Dieters tend to view “forbidden” foods as “bad” foods which are avoided or restricted when dieting. Avoiding and restricting these foods actually causes an increased desire to want those very foods. When the dieter gets...
by Karen | Mar 12, 2024 | Body Liberation, Eating Disorder Recovery, Food & Nutrition, Intuitive Eating, Recovery
Can you imagine living a life free from dieting, food and body obsession? If this is a challenging notion, you’re not alone. It might even seem impossible given how insidious and normalized diet culture has become. Diet culture is pretty good at convincing us that...
by Karen | Sep 26, 2023 | Body Image, Burning Man, Eating Disorder Recovery, Fat Ally, Intuitive Eating, Recovery, Uncategorized, Weight Stigma
What does Burning man have to do with intuitive eating and recovery from diet culture? How can these two intersect? First off, what is Burning man? If you watched the news recently you may have heard that about 70,000 ‘burners’ got stuck in the mud at this massive...
by Karen | Jul 15, 2023 | Body Image, Body Liberation, Eating Disorder Recovery, Fat Ally, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Weight Stigma
Eating Disorder Prevention: Here’s 8 common mistakes parents make about weight, food and body image. Most of my clients have spent decades including their childhood at war with their bodies. They have been told by everyone around them that their appetites and...
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. 
