How does food play a role in your friendship? Here are 2 types of friendships I’ve experienced recently. First, we have a friendship that has evolved over 10+ years with severe eating disorders, disordered eating pasts, and recovery. This friendship although both are in “recovered” no one currently struggles with either and these two people are able to fall back and support one another when one or the other...

Understand the most common fears of respecting your body signals. If you have any trace of diet trauma, it is very possible that the idea of eating only when hunger strikes, one of the basic principles of intuitive eating, makes you uncomfortable. This is one of the main hurdles I realize as I begin to explain to people about the importance of eating when hungry — for both body self-regulation,...

Learn what will really empower you over food In 99% of cases, women come to me telling me how weak and powerless they feel about food. The words control or self-control are always present in their speeches. Some substitute for willpower, but in general their feeling is that they lack more self-control in order to eat better, eliminate excesses, and thus lose weight. One simple word that can...

Healthy eating habits to practice now and after the Coronavirus. Eating healthy might seem like a difficult thing, but I promise you, it’s really not. We tend to overcomplicate it, focusing on macros, overanalyzing, and labeling foods as good or bad. We also tend to focus only on food, but real success with healthy eating has a lot to do with mindset and your environment. Here are my top 6...

Establishing healthy eating habits in the best of circumstances can be a challenge for many of us. And in the current world we’re living in — it could feel even harder. We may feel treating ourselves to all the foods is one of the biggest things we have to look forward to. You can still eat healthy during these uncertain...

With all the competing information out there, it can be confusing and overwhelming to figure out the right way for you to exercise. And that goes doubly if you’re a woman with imbalanced hormones or other period problems like PMS, acne, irregular cycles, thinning hair, cravings, and more. As a hormonal health expert, I see exercise as an enormous part...

So many of us are now finding ourselves without the comfort and routine of our old gyms, yoga/barre studios, and spin clubs. These are places where many of us have gone to exercise away stress, work on toning our bodies, and meet up with likeminded people who have become friends. But because of COVID-19, this is just one more thing...