Hi there:Last week I did something totally new for me: a live interview. The Daily Burn is an online fitness community that streams live workouts daily and offers other resources and inspiration including interviews with people like me!JD, the host, and I spoke about diet culture, why focusing on weight loss is exactly the wrong […]
Intuitive Eating: It’s on the other side of your embarrassment
Giving up dieting is like walking into the ocean and beginning to swim, trusting that eventually you will get to another shore you can’t yet see. Intuitive Eating is that other shore and I assure you, it’s there. You’re smart, accomplished, well-liked. A productive member of society. A model citizen, good friend, stellar parent, […]
Oooops, I screwed up! And while we’re on the topic: 3 steps to being more gentle with ourselves
So I screwed up the free Chat with an IE Pro this past Tuesday. I miscommunicated, sent out the wrong information, and there you have it. I sincerely apologize. What can I say? I’m an imperfect human being. Like a lot of us, I’ve been carrying a lot lately so something was bound to fall […]
Trust Your Gut: Why You Should Respect Your Cravings
A new study published in PLOS Biology found that the bacteria in our guts tell us what to eat in order to maintain a balance in their various populations, thereby keeping us in working order. In the study, explained in plain English in Scientific American, researchers found that when flies were fed diets lacking in […]
Thanks, RuPaul’s Drag Race, for bringing eating disorders out of the closet
It’s no secret: I love RuPaul’s Drag Race and think everyone should be watching it. Not just because the queens have such incredible range and talent: they write, do comedy, host, sing, dance, choreograph, direct, act, ad lib, design, sew, and are makeup ninjas. All of this would already make them sort of superhuman. Even […]
Renunciation and the Church of Magical Eating
When you think of spirituality, you might call to mind a framework or set of rules that show you the way to inner peace, to end your suffering (and possibly even avoid death), is to be good. On the darker end of the spectrum, however, behavior is often driven by a fear of consequences (of […]
Five Mindfulness Lessons Every Coach and Therapist Can Use
Within the first few nutrition therapy sessions with a new client, I inevitably ask her (or him) to do something that seems impossible: to stay in the icky, fearsome, claustrophobic space between having a painful emotion and automatically reacting to it by overeating. This might not sound like much, but to someone struggling with emotional […]
Mindful Eating Group with Alexis Conason, PhD
For some of us it starts with the jar of Halloween candy at home or in the office. For others it’s around the packed-to-capacity Thanksgiving table. Or maybe it’s just entering the month of December with its endless array of eating- and drinking-focused celebrations.As much as the holidays are a time of family and friends, […]
Unconditional permission to eat – confusing choosing not to eat with restriction
When people enter onto the Intuitive Eating path, one of the most important steps is to give themselves unconditional permission to eat. After years – sometimes decades – of deprivation, good and bad foods, and resisting “temptation” until they couldn’t take it anymore, many find this step daunting. And yet…intriguing. The idea that they could […]
On working with physical pain: The first and second dart
I couldn’t pick up my son on his first birthday. We were in Sicily celebrating with his grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles. It was a joyous occasion in every way except for the stabbing pain that extended from my middle back to beneath my left shoulder blade and the dull ache I felt down […]
