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 | 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 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 4, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Positive, Body Respect, Body Trust®, HAES, Health at Every Size, Inspiration, Joyful Movement, Kindness, Nourishment
By Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD We currently live in a culture that believes health comes in only one body size: thin. People (including physicians and other health care providers) make all kinds of assumptions about a person’s health just by looking at them (or... by anna | Jul 13, 2015 | Be Nourished, Inspiration, Kindness, Nourishment
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC I recently read about the concept of “flow” in the book “Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time” by Bridgid Schulte and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. “Flow is a timeless space, where one becomes absorbed in...
by anna | May 21, 2015 | Be Nourished, Body Trust®, Inspiration, Kindness
By Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC Learning to live without the prescribed structure of a diet is a necessary part of working to heal your relationship with food and body. “Planning to not make a plan” is our most basic, bottom line advice for trying to change the well-worn...