Good morning, friends! I hope the first Monday of your new year is off to an amazing start. (Mine is!) Monday is my day off, and I have plans to clean up my kitchen, take a long bike ride (indoors, sadly) and maybe try out a new recipe. That is, after finishing up with this … More How to Eat Dessert Without Guilt (& other Monday musings)
Over the past few years, Christmas has become one of my favorite holidays. It’s not that I didn’t like it before…but the whole “holiday party” and “Christmas cookie” type stuff totally stressed out my eating disorder. Fortunately, those days are behind me. I’ve also found that I enjoy the Christmas season even more since I’ve … More A Holly, Jolly, Non-Diet Christmas
We’ve all been the recipient of unsolicited comments about food. As I share in my book, Fulfilled, I had an experience once where a colleague straight up told me that he was judging the fact that I was eating goldfish crackers with my soup. Like…really? Did I ask you? No, I didn’t, and most of … More Comparison & Food Shame
When my eating disorder started, my food restriction was easy. I had no problem cutting things out of my diet or making the number on the scale go down. It wasn’t until after I started “recovery” the first time that I started to feel panicked around food. In the beginning, bingeing wasn’t an issue. I … More The 5 Stages of (my) Recovery
“I love you, but I don’t like you right now.” Perhaps you’ve felt this sentiment in your interpersonal relationships, or heard it from others, or even said it out loud. As imperfect people, we offend, hurt, annoy, and disturb our fellow humans on a daily (or even hourly) basis. Try as we may, we can’t … More Self-Love Means Meeting Needs
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