by anna | Nov 5, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Trust®, Nourishment, Shame Resilience
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC The shame storm can creep up and grab you from behind. You can be minding your own business and just run right smack into it. It’ll knock you off course, sending you reeling and turning back into your most difficult thoughts, your old fears... by anna | Oct 21, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Respect, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Kindness, Relationship, The Weight of the World
By Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD Most people recoil when they first hear us use the term “fat” when we give a talk. And then we explain that part of the work in the body positive movement is reclaiming the word fat, to strip it of its negative or pejorative... by anna | Oct 9, 2015 | Be Nourished, Inspiration, Kindness, Newsletter, Nourishment, Relationship, The Weight of the World
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC All of us learn to numb. Food, shopping, substances, sex, relationships. TV, phones, overworking, we see numbing all around us and it is not always questioned in our culture. Habitually numbing helps us to not feel so much – sadness, anger,... 
by anna | Sep 16, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Respect, Body Trust®, Embodied Practitioner, HAES, Health at Every Size, Newsletter, The Weight of the World
The arena of body acceptance and positivity is a beautiful and varied one. There are many strong and capable voices, leaders and ideas. We want you to know where we are coming from so you can: Feel safe exploring our work. Think about it and see how it is for you.... 
by anna | Sep 4, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Respect, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Inspiration, Joyful Movement, Kindness, Nourishment
By Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD We currently live in a culture that believes health comes in only one body size: thin. People (including physicians and other health care providers) make all kinds of assumptions about a person’s health just by looking at them (or... by anna | Jul 13, 2015 | Be Nourished, Inspiration, Kindness, Nourishment
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC I recently read about the concept of “flow” in the book “Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time” by Bridgid Schulte and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. “Flow is a timeless space, where one becomes absorbed in... 