How can intuitive eating help when our partner, spouse, or loved one is stuck in diet culture?

Emotional Eating is the most controversial principle of Intuitive Eating since sometimes food can be the best tool we have for comforting ourselves.

It’s important to be grounded in intuitive eating before we incorporate external advice about nutrition

Even though Diet Culture serves up an almost infinite list of rules and insults, we usually hear a specific few on repeat.

Inside each of us is a Diet Rebel, a part that doesn’t tolerate the rules, guilt trips, and oppressiveness of Diet Culture.

Spending time with family over the holidays reminds many of us that Diet Culture is still thriving.

You may be asking, what about folks who can’t afford to eat what and when their bodies tell them? How does intuitive eating help them?

Eating lunch can be an act of radical self love, especially if you’re accustomed to 'working through' midday hunger.

Holding onto clothes that are an aspirational size can at first seem motivational

Finding pleasure in food is an unusually good weapon against diet culture

I’m all for eating nutritious foods if they taste good and appeal to you

Learn where you are in your intuitive eating journey.

When I Started Dieting: This is a two-part story based on my own and several clients’ stories.

How would it feel to go for a walk without tracking steps? What about ditching the bathroom scale?

Cravings, COVID weight gain, and how digestive issues can result from restrictive diets

I have a client who feared eating out in restaurants with others even though she’s an outgoing, social person

By definition, foodies love food

Many of us learned to use food at a young age to self-soothe.

My client didn’t trust herself to have bbq potato chips in her pantry because she was sure she’d eat all of them.

After years of dieting and restriction, hunger and fullness can be difficult to recognize.