Feeding ourselves is a fundamental daily task, but it's not always as straightforward as following a meal plan or having the right ingredients. Often, our energy levels play a crucial role in our ability to prepare and enjoy a meal. In this blog post, we'll explore the concept of energy levels and provide practical steps for working to restore joy, ease, and flexibility to the relationship with food.

Welcome 2024 with real intention. Leave the body-based resolutions int the past. Your body is not a problem to solve and resolve.

MNT is often ordered and approved by your primary care physician or other health care provider, and is then performed by a Registered Dietitian. Depending on your individual insurance, you may or may not need a physician referral to seek MNT.

Moving away from dieting and healing from an eating disorder asks you to learn what enough looks like on a plate and feels like in your body. Even if it’s the same five things at first. Even if it’s only the food they feel safe eating. This is about trust and adequacy.

In the work of eating disorder recovery and moving away from dieting, helping someone feel safe and supported to take in adequate nourishment is a foundational purpose of nutrition therapy. This focuses on making sense of learned food behaviors and noticing emotions that are linked to eating.

You are not alone, no matter how isolated you feel. Acknowledging that others are suffering may be the key to helping you find a way forward in your eating disorder recovery, work to move away from dieting, and the healing of your relationship with your body.

One of the pillars of self-compassion is Self-Kindness. Connecting with our “inner child” is one way we can practice self-kindness. The inner child concept in psychology is where we imagine the childhood version of ourselves and what we would say to them if we had a chance.

An overview of self-compassion with real-life examples that address diet culture and moving away from dieting and rigid food rules.

When your reach for snack food is an invitation for self-discovery

A resource for caring for body discomfort.

A year-end letter of encouragement and guidance to my daughter and yours.

Sometimes eating behaviors are so deeply automated that a person might never get from wanting-to-change to trying-to-change. This is why understanding safety and threat through the nervous system can be so deeply supportive. Helping people get the understanding can help reduce how disorganized they feel. So, even outside of the session, they are a lot better able to recognize what is going on, to name it, and to do something about it.