by Mandy | May 2, 2019 | Body Positive, Inspiration, Kindness, Relationship, Shame Resilience
We, as a culture, are having a difficult time naming and understanding the impact that a dieting and weight loss focus is having on our children. It is essential that we, as caretakers of children, begin to understand that our obsession with weight and “healthy”...
by Mandy | Mar 21, 2019 | Attuned Eating, Be Nourished, Book Recomendations, Eating disorders, Embodied Practitioner, Shame Resilience
It’s a common scenario, most of us have probably experienced it. We’re having lunch at work, decompressing, enjoying leftovers, maybe a sandwich and some cookies or takeout, and it happens. “I must have gained XX amount of pounds over vacation.” “I really shouldn’t be...
by Dana Sturtevant | Mar 8, 2019 | Attuned Eating, Be Nourished, Book Recomendations, Eating disorders, Embodied Practitioner, Shame Resilience
Food addiction is a phrase you’ve probably heard. It’s been used in a wide variety of contexts, with increasing frequency over the past 40 years, to invoke many of the same ideas believed about drug addiction. New science finds, though, that many widely held beliefs...
by Dana Sturtevant | Dec 31, 2018 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Shame Resilience, Weighting eCourse
It makes sense that you may feel a strong pull to want to make health-related changes in the New Year. For those who celebrate year-end holidays, you may be feeling ready for a change after all the food, family, travel, stress and busyness. This makes sense! However,...
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 | 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...
