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...
by Karen | Apr 6, 2022 | Body Image, Diet Mentality, Fat Ally, Health at Every Size, Intuitive Eating, Mindful Eating, Weight Stigma
Throw away your scale. Stop weighing yourself. The scale (aka the crying machine) is the ultimate mood and behavior disruptor. Think about the last time you weighed yourself. How did you feel before you step on the scale? Then how did you feel after you step on the...
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...
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. 