Acceptance vs Resignation & Defeat
Why is it so hard to come to a place of peace and acceptance around your body and your weight?
This episode illustrates how the concept of acceptance differs significantly between two distinct models of weight loss and well-being.
In “Diet Drama Land” acceptance means defeat – you will never achieve your goals.
In “Happy Calories® World” acceptance is the key to freedom. Acceptance not only brings a deep sense of peace – it also paradoxically turbo charges your results.
Culture Wars: Diet Culture vs Recovery Culture
In the “Diet Culture” vs “Recovery Culture” war everyone loses.
This episode discusses what the medical community overlooks when trying to address eating disorders. The resulting “recovery culture” can be just as toxic and deadly as “diet culture” itself.
Join me in a conversation about how BOTH “cultures” are healed through the lens of the Happy Calories Don’t Count® model.
Toxic Body Positivity
Is “Body Positivity” really a good thing?
Join me in a discussion of how many of the conversations around “body positivity” really do nothing to help women heal and transform their relationships to their bodies and themselves.
Learn what you do – and not do – to improve your sense of self, optimize your physical results and develop authentic body positivity.
Hint: It has nothing to do with “loving your body” or yourself!
The “Price” of Your Ideal Body
What price would you be willing to pay to get the body of your dreams?
This is an honest question – one that I would really like you to consider.
Are you thinking in terms of time and money – to go to the gym, to hire personal trainers, to shop for organic groceries and prepare “healthy” meals? Are you thinking in terms of surgical – and non-surgical solutions? Are you thinking in terms of personal and spiritual growth?
Do you think all of this is silly, vain and a waste of time and that we – as women – should be more concerned about other “more important” things?
Your body is the vehicle through which you experience this life. Therefore, how you feel in your body and how you feel about your body directly impacts the quality of your life.
So join me in a discussion of what it will really “cost” you to create a body and life you love.
Can Shapewear Really Be Body Positive?
A shapewear ad called itself “body positive” while selling products designed to reshape women’s bodies. I’m not against shapewear. But I am against sleight of hand marketing that mistakes a product for a solution — and keeps women stuck in the underlying pain.
Is Body Positivity Actually Making Things Worse?
“Love your body” sounds beautiful. But you can’t compel yourself to love anything — least of all your body. Here’s why the Body Positivity movement, despite its good intentions, often leaves women with more pain than peace.
The Serenity Prayer and the Secret to Ending the Food Fight
The Serenity Prayer talks about accepting what you can’t change, changing what you can, and having the wisdom to know the difference. It turns out that’s also the perfect framework for understanding why diet culture fails, why body positivity falls short, and what Happy Calories Don’t Count® actually does differently.
What the Body Image Movement Gets Right — And Where It Falls Short
I finally saw Embrace by Taryn Brumfitt and left feeling grateful — grateful that I’m free. The film does important work. But it operates from within the same model that creates the pain in the first place. Here’s what the Body Image Movement gets right and what it’s still missing.
The Real Power You Have Over Diet Culture — And How to Use It
Three conversations in one week — all about feeling powerless against corporations, marketers and unrealistic beauty standards. But here’s what we keep forgetting: we are the ones with the real power. Here’s how to use it.
How to Stop Comparing Your Body to Other Women’s — And Actually Mean It
91% of women hate their bodies according to the film Embrace. And while body image movements do important work, lasting change requires something more — actual skills and tools to break the comparison habit. Here’s where to start.