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…
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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,…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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