A really big mistake keeps haunting me. A few years ago I decided to finally follow my heart and start my own business. After awhile I decided that I knew a great deal about my work but very little about “business” or how to spread the word about what I was offering. I was super passionate about sharing the tools …
The connection between your stomach and your intuition
I have a question for you: What would happen if you learned to trust your gut instead of trying to starve it, empty it, flatten it, suck it in, or hide it? Chances are you would experience a huge transformation. Learning to trust your intuition is huge. Choosing to stop hating your body is huge. Doing both at the same time …
Full Disclosure: I don’t always like my body.
My first boyfriend was obsessed with my flat stomach. It was the mid 90’s, I dreamed of going to Warped Tour (which was brand new back then) and Gwen Stefani was my fashion idol. As such my wardrobe was largely made up of carpenter pants and baggy ripped jeans paired with tiny baby doll tees or tanks. Always midriff bearing. I hadn’t really thought …
Money and Food ~ Financial Anorexia?
How do you feel about money? I used to get anxious just thinking about earning or saving money, paying bills, and asking clients for payment. One day I realized that the way I felt about and acted around money, was strikingly similar to the way I used to feel about and act around food. I ran into the kitchen and proclaimed to …
Life changing conversation. Or, the latest diet craze.
I generally don’t listen in on other peoples conversations, but I was glad I did the other day. I was at a cafe seated near a group of 30 something women. As I sat at my table I overheard them talking about the new diets they were on. One was going vegan, another was on a caveman diet, someone was counting points and …
Accepting Your Body Is Shortchanging Yourself. Here’s Why…
Let’s stop going half-way in our relationship to our bodies. It is great to accept our bodies and to eat and move in ways that help us to like them, but it is not the end of the journey. It is only the first step. Eating a plant-based, low sugar, paleo or mostly-healthy-most-of-the-time diet is wonderful, but it is a …
When Eating Disorders Are Not About Beauty
It seems that talking about eating disorders and positive body image is en vogue lately. Stories of recovery, calls for help, and encouragement to heal are splashed all over social media and major online publications. The stories that I am seeing are heartbreaking. They are all from individual perspectives, and yet they have a lovely sense of sameness. It is …
How Not To Pass Your Eating Disorder On To Your Children
I read an article written by a woman who inherited an eating disorder from her mother. Perhaps genetics was in play—there is a lot of research to prove a biological cause for eating disorders. Absolutely, without a doubt, observation was in play. She learned not to love herself from her mom. She learned self-hatred from her mom. She learned to …
An Open Letter to Those Struggling With an Eating Disorder
If you are worried that you will lose yourself when you stop fasting, restricting, binging and purging, please know that you won’t. Those qualities that make you really good at being anorexic or bulimic or eating disorder otherwise unspecified will also make you really good at being a strong, healthy, and successful person. The dedication, determination, laser sharp focus, fight, …