Our Cult-Like Diet Culture

I’ve been reading a lot about cults lately and I’m coming more and more to the understanding that our way of looking at weight = health is cult-like. There’s a clear mission to keep the truth about the relation of weight and health from the...

Words That’ll Help You Through The Tough Days

I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. These 4 sentences have been words that have helped me through so many difficult experiences of my life. They’ve supported me in my divorce, in...

… and I smile

Trains passing by. I am standing still. Trains rushing, the icy wind hitting my face. I am not moving. Standing on the platform. Watching. Noticing. Listening. Detaching. More trains. I am taking a deep, long breath. Inhale. Exhale. Trains stop. Doors open. Decisions...

About Being Whole

Each of us has a unique, fascinating, and ever changing relationship with food. And oftentimes we feel that this unique relationship with food and our body is so screwed up, so painful and horribly twisted in guilt, shame and fear that we’ll never ever be able...

Shake it Up!

Confession! I haven’t been journaling. Like at all. For at least 2 months. My journal is open, right next to me, but there are no words than want to come out, no thoughts that want to be spilled on those beautiful pages. Or maybe there’s just a huge...

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to

This is a mantra I used to repeat when I was weaning myself off my exercise addiction. I knew that I could work out for 4 hours a day, I knew that I could live off hardly any food, I knew that I could make it through the days starved and weak, I knew I could survive....

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