FOOD, BODY IMAGE, AND THE WHOLE DIET-AND-EXERCISE DRAMA
There’s a lot more to our struggles with food and our bodies than calories, willpower, or trying harder.
Here, I explore the assumptions behind the traditional diet-and-exercise model, why so many familiar solutions keep us stuck, and what changes when we approach food, exercise, and our bodies from a completely different perspective.
Some posts are personal. Some challenge conventional wisdom. And some might make you laugh.
Browse the articles below. Start wherever you're curious.
What My Sick Cat Taught Me About Trusting the Process
I kept telling my ailing cat "if you only knew how much I love you, you couldn't possibly be scared." And then it hit me — what if that's exactly what the universe is saying to us when life gets hard? Here's the thought that actually brought me peace.
Why Figuring Out the “Cause” of Your Weight Struggle Keeps You Stuck
My cat was very sick and I kept torturing myself — what if I'd caught it earlier? What caused this? If I can just find the cause, I can fix it. Sound familiar? Here's why looking for the cause of your food drama keeps you trapped — and what to focus on instead.
Why Positive Thinking Alone Won’t Heal Your Relationship With Food
There's a moment in the movie Enchanted where the eternally cheerful princess finally gets angry for the first time — and becomes ecstatic. Because she's finally fully alive. Here's why that moment explains everything about why stuffing emotions with food never works.
Why Every Weight Loss Program Keeps You on the Same Broken Teeter-Totter
Every weight loss program — from basic calorie counting to emotional healing to spiritual alignment — eventually reduces back down to the same thing: the diet and exercise teeter-totter. Here's what that means, why no one questions it, and what it looks like to finally get off it entirely.
Why the Diet and Exercise Model Is Like Believing the Earth Is the Center of the Universe
Before Copernicus, astronomers could explain a lot of what they observed — they just couldn't get to Mars. The math was based on a fundamentally flawed premise. The diet and exercise model has exactly the same problem. Here's what that means for every woman who's ever blamed herself for not getting results.
What Happens When You Stop Linking Diet and Exercise Together
A friend posted that she needed to "burn off" her Fourth of July calories with a run. I didn't comment — because what I had to say would have taken more than a Facebook reply. Here's the mindset shift that actually sets you free from the diet and exercise trap.