IT’S FREE, Y’ALL. Okay, I know you’re probably all gifted out by now. But I’ve gotta give a shoutout to the very best gift in the whole wide world: body acceptance. It’s free, I reach for it every single day, and I only wish I could gift it to other people, too. You may have heard of…
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Sneaky little diet triggers
It’s not easy to detox your life of diet culture. Even after you’ve stopped counting calories and weighing in, you might be surprised at the diet detritus lingering around. If you are still feeling guilt about who you are, how you look, or how you’re living your life, it’s time to dig a little deeper and…
5 mantras to make it through the holidays
The holidays are a fraught time of year for anyone with food issues. Are you worrying about facing your fear foods? Wondering how to stay “on track”? Afraid that if you start eating you won’t be able to stop? It doesn’t have to be this way. There is a cure for binge eating, and it…
My weight is none of my business
What am I going to do with it, deadlift myself at the gym? Prescribe myself some properly dosed medication? Check myself as luggage at the airport? Of course not, that’s ridiculous. And so is weighing myself. There is absolutely no reason why I need to check in with a scale and know what I weigh….
You do not have to be on a diet to earn your place on this planet
You do not have to feel guilty about every diet trend you don’t try, or every food you do or don’t eat. That’s diet culture nonsense, and you don’t have to buy into it anymore. As a young girl obsessed with all the things that were wrong with my body, I internalized every single message…
Here’s to the season of letting go
Why did I get an eating disorder? I don’t know, and I probably never will. Why wasn’t I born skinny? Or tall? Or blue-eyed? Who knows. Who cares? The older I get, the more it all seems so…foolish. Anxiety and depression are real, but beauty standards aren’t. No one can make me feel bad about my…
six months to sanity 