Body Acceptance

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Just for Today, Are You Open to Letting Your Struggles With Food and Weight Go?

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I know it's a lot. And you've been carrying it around for so long.

It may feel impossible for you to imagine what it feels like and looks like to not be struggling with food, your body, your health. 

What if the meaning behind the struggle is the struggle? 

Could the narrative you have in your mind about who you are when you overeat, eat emotionally, and worry about your weight is what's wearing on you? 

Notice what you say to yourself when you overeat. Are you bad? Disgusting? Out of control? Crazy?

What if you let those ideas loosen their grip on you? 

Imagine you're holding these ideas of yourself in your fist. 

Feel the weight, the pressure. 

Now open your palm and let the energy of these ideas be. 

Do they want to stay in your palm? Are they willing to drop? To float? 

When you're not holding onto these words, ideas and meaning so tightly, how does your body feel? 


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A Client Case Study: From Weekly Bingeing to Feeling Peaceful around Food

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In this article, I share the experience of a client that went through my One-to-One Coaching program.

I’m sharing what her relationship with food was like before we started working together, some of the key components of my coaching that worked for her, and what her experience with food and her body is like now as a way for you to understand what’s possible on the other sides of your struggles with food and your body.

Please know that practicing Intuitive Eating and changing our relationship with our body, while we‘re embedded in cultural messages that tell us our bodies need to be different, is a constant and ever-changing process.

When Did You First Hear That You Needed To Lose Weight?

You need to lose weight.

When was the first time you heard those words?

Were you at summer camp when you were 11 and compared yourself in your bathing suit to your skinnier and more popular friend?

When it was time to get uniforms for your basketball team, were you horrified when they were too small for your body and the coach needed to order a larger size, just for you?