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Is it Disordered Eating? How your eating patterns keep you stuck.

Is it Disordered Eating?  How your eating patterns keep you stuck.

If some of your intentions have something to do with your eating patterns and relationship with food, I wanted to lay out a few possible categories to help you identify where you think you might land.

Crushing your doubts in your eating recovery -- A dietitian’s perspective

Crushing your doubts in your eating recovery -- A dietitian’s perspective

Whether it be the voices of diet culture feeling a lot more vicious and louder to you, or your own inner vicious and critical voices swirling around, or your family giving you caring concern about your “health,” or feeling fed up, scared, and uncomfortable in your body, these doubts and fears can be normal stumbling blocks along the way. I decided to compile a blend of the most common themes my clients have struggled with

Healing the True Hungers Beneath Emotional Eating

Healing the True Hungers Beneath Emotional Eating

If your eating feels out of control to you, it could be a sign that there is something you are avoiding feeling, experiencing or doing. Getting to know the true hungers at the root of emotional eating and disordered eating can give you a new way to heal.

Releasing Shame to Heal Your Relationship with Food & Body Image

Releasing Shame to Heal Your Relationship with Food & Body Image

All the efforts you make to change or “perfect” yourself only deepen your feelings of shame.  You are constantly in a state of “I’m not ok, unless....

Breaking Out of the Diet Trap

Breaking Out of the Diet Trap

You may have been battling binge eating, chronic dieting, and body image issues for years!  Each new hope and intention to make this effort THE ONE that will work often gets met with a feeling of another failed attempt. Here’s the good news!  You CAN find freedom from the hopeless cycle of binge eating and body shame, and actually have a healthy relationship with food and your body!  

Finding Your Peace with Food -- Getting to Know Intuitive Eating

Finding Your Peace with Food -- Getting to Know Intuitive Eating

Re-connecting with that natural ability to be in tune with your body’s needs is not simple.  The concepts are simple, but putting them into play and going against entrenched patterns of emotional eating or mindless eating takes time.