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...
by Karen | Jun 11, 2023 | Binge eating, Eating Disorder Recovery, Weight Stigma
It’s darn near impossible to go anywhere these days and not hear about Ozempic. It’s in our face everywhere thanks to large marketing budgets of big pharma. But is this new drug a medical breakthrough or just another fad that will just make big pharma even wealthier?...
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...