Highlighting health and wellness professionals that use Ate to partner with their clients. By the time I was eight years old, my mother had introduced me to Weight Watchers. I knew what a calorie was. I came home from a day of swimming and said, “I burned a lot of calories at the pool. I was good today.” My mother and I used to diet together. It was our thing. We exercised with...

Do you struggle with emotional eating? Do you mindlessly wander into the pantry or go looking for the chocolate stash during a stressful day? You may be struggling with emotional or stress eating. It’s important to note that eating emotionally is not always a bad thing! It can be great to have positive emotions associated with foods as well. For...

When we set out to build a healthier lifestyle, eat more whole foods, and overall take care of our bodies, we think it’s just a set of rules and guidelines. You ask yourself what you need to do, what actions you need to take, and what program or method can help you achieve that healthy lifestyle fastest. But here’s the...

I bet you haven’t thought of yourself as a storyteller or editor, but you really are. Every day, we tell ourselves stories about what is happening in our lives, in an effort to make sense of it. And as you may well imagine, some of the stories we tell ourselves are positive, and some are negative. But the underlying fact...

If you have ever struggled with feeling out of control or obsessively thinking about food, please know YOU ARE NOT ALONE! These struggles with food and body image are far more common than you may think, but it’s not something people often talk about. More often, people suffer in silence thinking that they’re somehow broken or undisciplined, but it’s not...

Maybe you think about it all the time, maybe it never really crosses your mind, or maybe you only occasionally ponder it. Regardless, pondering your life purpose can seem like a big undertaking, especially if you don’t feel called in any direction. I’m here to tell you it’s okay to not feel called in any direction. Culture or society or...

Reflection is the one thing that can make or break your progress or lack of it. Oftentimes people think change only comes in taking action and while that’s HUGE (you can’t have change without taking action and making it happen) reflection is the thing that will get you clear on what actions to take, how to adjust instead of giving...