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.
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.
Why Fighting Your Food Struggles Makes Them Worse
A friend’s mom had fallen multiple times without breaking a bone — because she learned to stop fighting the fall and just let it happen. Here’s why that’s some of the best advice I’ve ever heard for anyone struggling with food, their body, or their weight.
What Acting Taught Me About Healing Your Relationship With Food
Will Smith memorized everyone else’s lines because he was too nervous to just be present. Sound familiar? Here’s why the art of acting is actually the perfect analogy for what it takes to truly heal your relationship with food and your body.
What Is Happy Calories Don’t Count? Here’s the Simple Answer
The first thing people ask when they hear my book title is “what’s a happy calorie?” I usually answer with another question — what’s an unhappy calorie? Here’s what Happy Calories Don’t Count actually is, and why it’s fundamentally different from every other approach to weight loss.
Why Understanding Happy Calories Don’t Count Requires a Light-Bulb Moment
Teaching Happy Calories Don’t Count is like pulling someone out of the Matrix — except this Matrix pulls you right back in. Here’s why making the shift requires more than just learning new information, and what that light-bulb moment actually feels like.
Why 97% of People Regain the Weight (And What Actually Works Instead)
Most people diet to reach a destination — a goal weight, a certain size, a before-and-after photo. But what happens when you get there? Here’s why the destination is an illusion, and what sustainable weight loss actually looks like.
Why the “Right” Approach to Weight Loss Looks Different for Everyone
I was in the audience listening to Dr. Daniel Amen talk about brain health when he pulled out the calorie budget analogy and my blood pressure spiked. And then I had a moment of clarity. Here’s what it taught me about why alignment looks different for every person — and why that’s actually good news.