by Mikalina Kirkpatrick | Feb 1, 2018 | Attuned Eating, Body Trust®, Intuitive eating
The Whole30®—that’s what we’ve heard about the most this year. It seems to be one of the big diet trends right now. That’s right, we called it a diet. Many don’t think the Whole30 is a diet. The truth? Lots of programs out there are diets in disguise. We recently came...
by anna | Oct 26, 2017 | Attuned Eating, Be Nourished, Body Respect, HAES, Intuitive eating, Kindness, Nourishment, Shame Resilience
“We’d like to encourage parents to calm the f%*k down about Halloween Candy.” This is something we wrote on Facebook years ago, and within a matter of minutes, it had 50 shares. The post went on to say… “Candy is part of the world, candy will...
by anna | Oct 10, 2016 | Attuned Eating, Be Nourished, Intuitive eating, Nourishment
By Dana Sturtevant & Hilary Kinavey In a culture that emphasizes “nutritionism”— a reductionist way of thinking about food that assumes the whole point of eating is to maintain and promote bodily health—it is easy to forget that food is so much more than the sum...
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 11, 2015 | Attuned Eating, Be Nourished, Intuitive eating
By Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD It’s National Nutrition Month, and while most helping professionals will focus on healthy food, we thought we’d talk about eating competency. Eating competency reminds us that how and why we eat have a big impact on our relationship to food...
by anna | Feb 26, 2015 | Attuned Eating, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Intuitive eating, The Weight of the World
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC It’s Eating Disorder Awareness week, and with all the discussion about eating disorders this week, we wanted to shed some light on Binge Eating Disorder (BED). It’s a bit more complicated than it may seem. Dana and I attended the 18th Annual...
