6 Keys to Body Acceptance
Body acceptance is an ongoing journey. I have come a long way on mine, and offer 6 keys to achieving body acceptance.
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Body acceptance & diet culture – you can’t have both.
As a patient in treatment for anorexia, I had a classic paradox: mistrustful and compliant. Ana takes away the ability to trust anyone except her. She convinced me that my treatment team just wanted me to gain weight, but they didn’t really care about me. I doubted every piece of information they gave me, whether […]
Read More5 ways to parent your child through diet culture
Think fast: your 6 year old’s gym teacher has told your kid that she’ll get fat if she doesn’t run after eating…what do you do?
Read MoreInternational No Diet Day!
On this, my 364th day since entering residential treatment for anorexia, it is coincidentally No Diet Day! What’s in a year? I’ll tell you…
Read MoreSunshine Blogger Award
I won an award! So now you get to know (hopefully new and fun) stuff about me!
Read MoreOn trolls, blogging, and fatphobia
If I didn’t have trollophobia, these are all the REALLY TRUE THINGS I would say about what’s wrong with our (crappy American diet) culture…
Read Morethe power of a photo in recovery
I really don’t want to publish this post. But if I want to be open about what anorexia recovery looks like, it includes this. One photo almost took me down… Roommate and I discovered that we were dressed exactly alike on Sunday night, thought it was funny (like how people who live together start to […]
Read MoreFacing the kitchen. Literally.
My department moved to a new building on campus last month. Above is the view from my new office. The person in anorexia recovery won the coveted spot directly facing the kitchen. Does anyone else appreciate the irony? I did laugh when I found out. And I mentioned we moved last month…December…the holidays. What I’ve […]
Read Morethe best podcast EVER.
My super amazing anti-diet dietitian recently introduced me to Food Psych, a fantastic podcast about all things body acceptance, including: Diet culture Fat acceptance Eating disorder recovery Intuitive eating Making peace with food AND SO MUCH MORE! Christy Harrison, the host, is absolutely fantastic. She has great experience with food writing (ironically what catalyzed her […]
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