I share a recent experience I had with my legs. An experience fueled by our disordered culture and my history of body dysmorphia.
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I process what it was like to accidentally see my weight at the doctor’s office today and how evil diet culture is even in pregnancy.
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Guest writer, Salina, went from a gym-owning, body-obsessed Cross Fit coach to an intuitive-eating, body-accepting woman who hopes to help others by sharing her story.
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Guest writer (and also my sister), Karli, shares her story about her relationship with spaghetti. She hits diet culture right on the head in this piece that’ll for sure make you nod your head along in understanding of where she’s coming from.
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Guest writer (and my lovely mom), Doreen, shares her story about her life-long battle with diet culture. This blog post was sparked for her after she heard a podcast host proclaim that body image issues vanish for women after age 50.
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Ria, all the way from Australia, shares her story about the process of recovering from disordered exercise. Her story resonated with me, and I hope it is helpful for you too. Trigger Warning: disordered eating/exercise, hypomania
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I share a collection of thoughts and short stories about how I still succumb to diet culture and ways I’m slowly emerging from its suffocating grip.
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Two years ago, I decided to change my relationship with my body, food, and exercise. I had gotten to a point where I was stuck in a cycle of restricting, binging, and purging (mostly through exercise). In this post, I share 10 things I have done these past two years to help me heal from diet culture and embrace my body image “unicorn.”
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This weekend, my body dysmorphia and disordered eating thoughts intensified after a selfie-spiral at a friend’s wedding. Click to read more about how I cultivated self-compassion and quietly rebelled against my old patterns…
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Where do I start this story, a story whose author was only 9-years-old when she wrote the first page?
Do I start near the beginning in the bottom bunk bed of my shared childhood bedroom?…