by Karen | Apr 15, 2023 | Binge eating, Body Image, Body Liberation, Diet Mentality, Emotional eating, Fat Ally, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Weight Stigma
What is Body Image? Body image refers to a person’s perception, thoughts, and feelings about their own body, including its appearance, shape, and size. It is how a person views themselves when they look in the mirror, how they feel in their body, and how they...
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 3, 2022 | Body Image, Body Liberation, Fat Ally, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Recovery, Weight Stigma
Say what? Yep, you heard me right. You don’t have to love or even like your body. There is so much pressure to “love your body,” that when you are not feeling good about your body, these messages seem way out of reach. It’s unrealistic to go from hating your body to...
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. 