by Karen | Feb 4, 2023 | Binge eating, Diet Mentality, Emotional eating, Food & Nutrition, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Overeating, Recovery
What is Intuitive Eating? Intuitive eating is a non-diet approach to eating that emphasizes tuning in to one’s own hunger and fullness cues, and allowing oneself to eat what they truly desire and need, rather than following strict diets or external rules....
by Karen | Dec 10, 2022 | Binge eating, Body Image, Body Liberation, Diet Mentality, Emotional eating, Intuitive Eating, Recovery
Here’s 25 alternatives coping strategies that have nothing to do with food or eating. Emotional eating has been unfairly pathologized in our culture and those that struggle are told that they need to figure out a way to stop. The truth is, we are emotional creatures....
by Karen | Oct 7, 2022 | Binge eating, Body Image, Body Liberation, Diet Mentality, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Recovery, Weight Stigma
The Importance of Speaking your TRUTH. Assertiveness is an essential skill for achieving sovereignty in one’s life. In becoming assertive, we find ways to express who we are and what we need and want. We can learn how to communicate without being passive and...
by Karen | Sep 17, 2021 | Body Image, Diet Mentality, Food & Nutrition, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Weight Stigma
Do you feel pressure to live a “healthy” lifestyle? Do you feel guilty if you eat “junk” foods? What is your definition of “health”? Is it the mere absence of disease? Does it take into account the psycho-social determinants of health? What about our...
by Karen | Jun 10, 2021 | Body Image, Fat Ally, Food & Nutrition, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Recovery
What is diet culture and do you have a 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 message of diet culture is that weight...
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. 