If your relationship with food or your body has felt frustrating…
there’s a reason for that
And it's not what you think...
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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.
The Doctor’s Office Question That Reveals Everything Wrong With Diet Culture
The first question on a medical intake form wasn't about heart disease or diabetes. It was about "unplanned changes" in my weight. That word — unplanned — stopped me cold. Here's what it assumes about you and your body, and why it matters.
The Yoplait Ad That Accidentally Proved Everything Wrong With Diet Culture
My husband told me about a Yoplait commercial he thought I'd love — a woman doing mental gymnastics over a slice of cheesecake while a thinner woman just reaches for the yogurt. He was right. It perfectly illustrates the difference between the diet mindset and food freedom. Then the ad got pulled — and that's where things got interesting.