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Can you relate to this line of thinking? I know dieting doesn’t work long-term, and eventually I really want to try mindful and Intuitive Eating. But I’m at my highest weight now, so I’m going to try just this one last diet to get the weight off. And THEN I’ll work on...

You might know I’m an advocate of Intuitive Eating for promoting a healthy relationship with food, but today, I want to discuss Intuitive Exercise. First, consider the commonalities between Intuitive Eating and Intuitive Exercise – and also between Diet Mentality and...

I’m not above putting a task on my to-do list after I’ve completed it just so I can have the satisfaction of checking it off. Or listing things I’m unlikely to forget like “shower” and “make breakfast” so I can check them off and get that little dopamine reward in my...

Trusting your body allows you to enjoy a more peaceful relationship with your body and better meet its needs, rather than constantly being at war with your body and second-guessing its needs. But how do you build body trust? To answer that question, I think we must...

I made a case for cooking on a recent post, and today, let's talk about how to get started in the kitchen. This post for you if you’ve ever: felt even a slight yearning to utilize your kitchen more. looked at a friend who can whip together a meal effortlessly and...

Let me give you an example of how self-compassion can improve your nutritional health through a couple of scenarios: Scenario 1: You come home from work, feeling famished (beyond hungry on the hunger-fullness scale). Ah yes, you realize you've got some chips and...

I am really excited to announce this upcoming event: You'll leave this workshop with a deeper understanding of why self-compassion is a more effective motivator than self-criticism and personalized, concrete tools to apply self-compassion to challenging food...

When I first met my husband Ben, seeing his kitchen for the first time was, ahem, interesting. There was no food in his cupboards---unless you count Sriracha and Tabasco---only books (and not cookbooks). His fridge was mostly empty except for a few condiments....