by Mikalina Kirkpatrick | Dec 20, 2018 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Provider News, Visionaries
In 2008, Chevese Turner founded the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA) recognizing the need for an organization to advocate on behalf of individuals affected by binge eating disorder (BED) and the providers who treat them. Chevese is an award-winning activist...
by Mikalina Kirkpatrick | Feb 15, 2018 | HAES, Health at Every Size, Uncategorized
We hope that you have heard about Weight Watcher’s (WW) new plan to offer free memberships to teens age 13-17. We are disturbed and outraged. This is predatory marketing. This is not about health. “Lifestyle change” rooted in the desire to change the...
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 | Mar 23, 2016 | Eating disorders, HAES, Health at Every Size, Provider News
We recently came across this beautiful talk by Tara Brach on The Sacred Art of Listening. When we think of listening, we think of the space we hold for people’s healing process, and how the quality of our listening, not the wisdom of our words, has the biggest impact...
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 | Feb 12, 2016 | Be Nourished, Body Trust®, Eating disorders, Embodied Practitioner, HAES, Health at Every Size, Kindness, Newsletter, The Weight of the World
This month, we celebrate 10 years of Be Nourished! Our process over many of these years has been finding a language and philosophy while we unraveled our own formal training and internalized shame. Our work has been the result of deeply listening to understand what...
