Your relationship with your body and your body’s relationship with yourself is just that- a relationship. In relationships, what we need is an understanding, an ability to listen to one each, an ability to understand and mend, to ask each other what you both need.
Read MoreHealing your shame is key in healing your relationship with food and your body. It starts with changing the question “what’s wrong with me??” to “what happened to you?” When we make that simple shift, grace enters the room. What happened to you offers explanations, not excuses. It opens the gate to understanding. Understanding gives us knowledge, even in the most seemingly “irrational” situations. Your fear and your pain is not senseless. It may not seem fitting for the situation, and that just means we have more to learn.
Read MoreIdentifying the unhelpful thinking styles that you may use in relation to how you feel or think about food is a good way to develop a more respectful and trusting relationship with food. Dive deeper into understanding how these unhelpful ways of thinking may be affecting your relationship with food and body. Download your Unhelpful Thinking Styles: Food Edition Journal!
Read MoreNext time you find yourself questioning your treatment needs, check-in here. You may have been asking the wrong questions all along…
Read MoreFeeling discomfort in recovery is to be expected and celebrated. Rather than act with automatic behaviors and judgment, get curious with that discomfort and practice sitting with the feeling with mindful awareness.
In eating disorder recovery, we have to get really uncomfortable to grow.
How can we work to change our relationship with what it means to be uncomfortable today and everyday?
Read MoreMaslow’s Hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology that first showed up in the United states in 1943 and has remained popular in psychological analyses. The pyramid was created by a psychologist, Abraham Maslow, who has been looking for the meaning of life since the beginning of his career, looking to understand what would make life meaningful for people.
Read MoreTo move through recovery with more compassion and perspective, we must first reconceptualize what progress looks like in recovery. When many think about what progress looks like, the majority of people may think of only a few things- the decrease or absence of behaviors and the decrease or absence of markers of illness or symptoms that the eating disorder creates.
Although, of course important and always on our radar, boxing recovery into those two things and have a narrow view of recovery can very well be one of your biggest barrier to recovery.
Read MoreWhile at sometimes it can be pretty easy to decipher between the eating disorder voice and our authentic voice, at other times it can be pretty difficult. It can be hard to understand where some of our thoughts are coming from, if they are our own or if they are the eating disorder voice disguised as our own.
Read MoreSticking with a new venture sometimes feels even harder than beginning one. A little of the newness dissipates and some of the shine seems slightly less lustrous. I recently heard a phrase, “familiarity breeds contempt.” And it stopped me in my tracks; it was the truest thing I’d heard in a long time. So how do we keep ourselves in motion once the initial energy burst has expired?
Read MoreI love seeing all my clients reach their checkpoints! Eating and enjoying foods they haven't had in so long, making peace with their bodies, understanding the eating disorder, learning about how diet culture plays a role in the maintenance of their behaviors, and so much more! However, I want more for them and for you. I want you to go all the way to the finish line- to feel no ties to disordered eating, to have a full and compassionate relationship with food and your body. You deserve the world. You deserve full recovery.
Read MoreChanging my social media lead me to the body-positive movement in 2014 which lead me to Health at Every Size ® (HAES ® ), the fat-positive movement, and Intuitive Eating (IE). It blew my mind! Talk about a life-changing moment. If I never changed my social media then I would have never found the movements that helped me recover.
Read MoreIf I could choose one word that best describes what helped me most in my recovery journey, it would be freedom. What helped push me to actually try recovery and give it a chance was the desire to have my life back and to lean into my core values.
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