This is the other (not often talked about) side to emotional eating…. Learning to actually feel through your emotions, instead of trying to numb them out and push them down further. Am I the only one that feels like in society we are being taught how to avoid our negative emotions more? You hear things like just do positive […]
Food Sensitivity or Food Stress?
Today I wanted to talk about something that has come up quite a bit lately with my clients and that is the impact of stress on our digestive system (and really, overall health)! Everyone is more stressed than usual, and we have been for the last year and a half, simply with the state of […]
What stage of quitting dieting are you at?
On a couple of my client calls this week the topic of all the emotions that we experience as we begin to see diet culture for what it is, quit dieting, and become Intuitive Eaters came up and this is something that I realized does not get discussed enough! You see, as I’ve mentioned before, […]
Is Intuitive Eating simply just “letting yourself go”?
Today I wanted to discuss something that I see way too often and that is this idea that Intuitive Eating is simply just “letting yourself go” or not caring about yourself or your health. First off, this is completely untrue. If you’ve read or listened to anything that I’ve said about Intuitive Eating, or if […]
Trouble recognizing your hunger & fullness cues?
I had someone reach out to me on Instagram asking about how to increase awareness around their hunger signals. So, I went ahead and created a post on that. You can view that HERE if you missed it. This got me thinking, however, about also learning to recognize your fullness signals after years of ignoring […]
I hate to eat nutritious foods & exercise!
Do you feel like you are struggling to even want to eat nutritious food or exercise? First, I wanna say this is totally normal at the start of becoming an intuitive eater! When you are coming off of years of dieting and trying to shrink and change your body it’s completely normal to have a […]
Dieting Reflection Exercise
I wanted to provide you a bit of a reflection to do. When you think back over your life and certain events that you’ve experienced, are you able to classify them as remembering that you were “on a diet” or “off a diet”? For example, a birthday party when you were “on a diet” so […]
Can you lose weight as an intuitive eater?
I wanted to address one of the biggest questions I receive about Intuitive Eating. Honestly, this is one of the biggest questions that I personally had before I fully embraced IE myself – can you lose weight as an Intuitive Eater? The answer is yes you can and I’m going to share a bit about […]
But what about health when eating intuitively?
Let’s discuss another one of the biggest misconceptions around Intuitive Eating and that is that it basically has zero regard for health. The problem is that in our society we equate weight to health and we equate losing weight with getting healthier. We also believe that if we aren’t pursuing weight loss and if we […]
My 4 tips to overcome binge eating
I wanted to write a post regarding binge eating because I know it can be such a huge struggle for so many people. If you are familiar with my story, you know that I struggled with binge eating for years. At the peak of my Binge Eating Disorder, I was binging every single day. It […]