by anna | Aug 3, 2016 | Body Positive, Body Respect, Body Trust®, Health at Every Size, Kindness, Nourishment, Shame Resilience
Which is an unexpected way to work in a culture filled with food voices, opinions, suggestions and diet gurus. It’s unheard of when much of the mainstream food culture teaches us all to be very weary of food. We have consciously made a choice to swim against this... by anna | Jun 23, 2016 | Body Positive, Body Respect, Body Trust®, Eating disorders, Health at Every Size, Kindness, Uncategorized
The more we learn about healing Binge Eating Disorder (BED), the more efficient and proficient the process will become. The more bias and stigma we address regarding BED, the more access we will have to healing. No matter how many BED techniques and advances we make,... by anna | May 24, 2016 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Trust®, Health at Every Size, Kindness
How many times have you sat in a circle of people who believe they are devoted to making the world a better place and yet the conversations about bodies and health devolve into judgment, shame and blame? Weight bias, overt and often unnamed, runs amok between us. Bias... by anna | Apr 8, 2016 | Attuned Eating, Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Respect, Intuitive eating, Relationship
“No! Maybe? Okay, you’re right.” This is the phrase one client used to describe her experience learning about intuitive eating. The first reaction: No. How could it be? I thought I was doing the right thing by trying to control my food to lose weight. This can’t be... by anna | Mar 22, 2016 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Inspiration, Kindness, Newsletter
Every week, there seems to be a theme in what my clients bring up in session. This week it has been “Summer is coming!” Clients whose weight cycles a lot (via dieting) wonder if their clothes will fit when they try them on the first time this year. So the... 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... 