What Happened to You

Healing your shame is key in healing your relationship with food and your body. It starts with changing the question “what’s wrong with me??” to “what happened to you?” When we make that simple shift, grace enters the room. What happened to you offers explanations, not excuses. It opens the gate to understanding. Understanding gives us knowledge, even in the most seemingly “irrational” situations. Your fear and your pain is not senseless. It may not seem fitting for the situation, and that just means we have more to learn.

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How to Bring Gentleness into your Yoga Practice

If you’re working on healing your relationship with food or your body, yoga can be a powerful tool to support connecting with your body and breath and exploring a different form of movement. The Sanskrit terms sthira and sukha means steadiness and ease.

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Unhelpful Thinking Styles: Eating Disorder Recovery

Identifying the unhelpful thinking styles that you may use in relation to how you feel or think about food is a good way to develop a more respectful and trusting relationship with food. Dive deeper into understanding how these unhelpful ways of thinking may be affecting your relationship with food and body. Download your Unhelpful Thinking Styles: Food Edition Journal!

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The Fisherman, the Businessman, and the Allure of the Body Ideal

Learn to explore the stories you tell about your body and your life.

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How to Add Yoga Practices into your Day to Support Recovery

Use yoga practices like medtation, breathwork, and yoga throughout your day to support your eating disorder recovery.

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Foundation of Sports Nutrition-Eating ENOUGH

As I outlined in discussing the sports nutrition Hierarchy, the foundation of a successful sports nutrition routine is first and foremost eating enough. Athletes and active individuals are notorious for chronically underfueling due to decreased hunger cues, inability to balance nutrition with activity, or as a result of diet culture in the fitness world. If you are not first making sure that you are taking in enough energy, the types of food, timing, or supplements you take won’t make a difference.


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How to Quit Shoulding All Over Yourself

Finding yourself feeling stuck? Noticing Shoulds pulling strings in your life? It doesn’t have to be this way! Let’s start rewriting your Shoulds today.

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Sports Nutrition Hierarchy

As athletes or active individuals, it can be super confusing to know where to start when it comes to fueling yourself for activity. From the millions of results on google to the over abundance of social media advice, it’s not hard to get overwhelmed. Here’s the truth-sports nutrition DOES NOT have to be complicated.

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10 Minute Body Scan Meditation

A body scan meditation is a practice of bringing awareness to and relaxing different areas in your body. It can help you connect to your body by noticing different parts of your body instead of judging or criticizing them.

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Body image as a Relationship

A relationship can be defined as the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected, or as the state of being connected.

When discussing body image and body Image healing, it is very helpful to think of your relationship with your body as just that- a relationship. Our relationship with our body is similar to other relationships in our lives, like our relationships with our significant others, our friends, and other acquaintances.

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Farewell, February

Perhaps your heart hangs heavy this winter, or you are head-over-heels in love. When it comes to body image, many of us are somewhere along the complex spectrum of “love,” and likely with multiple paramours, if you will. As the month of romance comes to a close, consider crafting a thoughtful send-off by expressing to your body what’s in your heart. After all, it’s never to late for love.

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