Sometimes my brain gets sticky. I get frustrated with my anxiety when heavy and/or unwanted thoughts keep circling right back up to the forefront of my brain. Calling that "my sticky brain" is a helpful way for me to add a degree of separation. Which often allows me to reflect vs. react, which is typically [...]
"It's complicated" is how I felt for a long time. I grew up in family that loves sweets. We often baked and my mom was really great about providing me a wide variety of foods. Sweets were never inherently bad, but I remember feeling like dessert was the ultimate, pinnacle of satisfaction with eating and [...]
Tonight, the Bachelorette starts and I am pumped. I also am grateful. For the past few weeks, every time I turned on the Bachelor in Paradise (lol), I legitimately felt gratitude stirring in my heart. Which sounds ridiculous if you have ever seen BIP, but it's where I am at. Every week day, I sit [...]
Years later, I am still resting and learning to live in my body. There's nothing about compulsive exercise that is healthy. I used to use my body, but it was all to live outside my body and for a certain body. Now, I am practicing to live inside and with my body. Compulsive Exercise can [...]
Ahhhhh!! I am so excited for you. So excited that I made this 9 page guide to give your the basics on food, exercise, and body image as you start this new season of your life. Going into my freshman year, all things food felt really overwhelming. I am really proud of my younger self [...]
Just like somedays I don't eat any "sweets." What was your first reaction to that - a hint of celebration when a day passes by without dessert or a tinge of guilt when you look back on a vegetable-less day? There's a some good insight behind that reaction. Diet culture praises one and vilifies the [...]
This past month, Jared and I moved, drove 1783 miles across the southeast to celebrate and spend time with friends and family, packed and unpacked a 3 bedroom home, started new jobs, and got some hard news of a loved one's diagnosis. On top of that, we all live in a world filled with devastation, [...]
Our whole world changed this past year. Why would it not be okay if our bodies changed too? I think on a day-to-day basis, we lose sight of how much this pandemic affects our lives. Take a moment, if you're able, and think about all the ways COVID has changed your world in the past [...]
What's your food and body and exercise autobiography? Any client of mine has been asked this question - and for good reason. Growing up in this world we collect messages and experiences, like putting coins in a piggy bank, ultimately setting the stage and writing the script for how to perceive and respond to life. [...]
This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, that prompts the usual question, "what am I giving up for lent?" Common items to give up for those 46 days include social media, TV, and food. And of course you don't give up food entirely, it's usually sodas, dessert, bread, added sugars, or foods deemed as unnecessary (aka "junk"). [...]
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