Your mental health is important! Sometimes, we may hand over our care to someone like a family member or psychiatrist. In the moment, that may be important, but in the long run, it’s your responsibility. Too often I see clients defer their mental health healing to me as the “expert.” And while I have some…
Tis the season for diet tips, but we don’t have to engage with diet culture. I want to share a recent experience with you… Beyond the bumping of mixing paint cans, I could hear a faint news-y conversation in the background. There, behind me, was a little TV in the paint store where two morning…
I often get asked “What’s the difference between diets and eating disorders?” This post aims to answer that question. If you want the summary: sometimes it’s hard to tell. Remember that game “Spot The Difference” from childhood? You know, the one with two panels of the same illustration and you spot the differences between the…
Sometimes it’s difficult to shut up the “food police” (i.e. the voice that is judge and jury about what you should and should not eat). During a recent intuitive eating group, participants came up with statements from their own food police and we practiced coming up with alternative statements. Alternative statements come from what Evelyn…
**CW: Please skip this article if you are in active eating disorder recovery and/or content about diets is triggering.** I posted this meme yesterday and it’s gotten a lot of feedback so today I’m unpacking where my reasoning came from and some research behind it: First, I want to be very clear about a few…
Thanksgiving can be awesome (good food, family, friends, no presents to buy, gratitude) and it can be a drag (eating disorder and diet recovery triggers, family, friends, and lots of small talk or charged conversations). Sometimes it can feel like you need a cheat sheet to get through. So I made one especially for avoiding…
It is SO confusing, emotionally draining, and time consuming to critically think about every single thing you read. Sometimes we have to turn it off. However, part of diet culture and eating disorder recovery is learning how to step back from the disordered food thoughts and analyze the information we consume. As you read websites,…
“I will not eat all my hurricane snacks at once. I will not eat all my hurricane snacks at once. I will not eat all my hurricane snacks at once. I will not eat all my hurricane snacks at once.” I saw this as a meme and laughed to myself. Been there. Back to the…
For a lot of folks in eating disorder recovery (or recovery from diet culture), facing your “fear foods” can be revolutionary! If you’ve kept yourself from eating “cheat foods” or “fear foods” that incite feelings of guilt, shame, unworthiness, and failure, then it’s no wonder you might feel liberation and freedom when those same foods…
There are SO MANY things to talk about besides diets and food rules! Literally, anything other than those two topics and there’s still a wealth of conversation. But sometimes we get caught in a rut. Dieting and concern about body shape/size are a rite of passage for a lot of women (and increasingly, men). We…