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...
by anna | Nov 10, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Respect, Body Trust®, Eating disorders, HAES, Health at Every Size, Inspiration, Kindness, The Weight of the World
Sharing your personal eating philosophies and ambitions is harmful to the very people you intend to help. We aren’t interested in hearing about how you got and stayed off sugar or how going gluten free has changed everything. We don’t need to hear about your...
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
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC & Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD 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...
by anna | Mar 30, 2015 | Be Nourished, Kindness, The Weight of the World
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC I didn’t know that what I was feeling was shame. It was so old and familiar; seemingly rooted in the very foundation of my being. I took shame’s presence to mean that I had perpetually had more “work to do”, more to fix (and hide...
