Healing Through Food
Creating peace around food means that there are no rules. There’s no prescribed way to eat. All foods have some value, and every choice you make is entirely valid. Nutritionally dense foods are not better than foods that exist primarily for visual or gastronomic pleasure. When you have this level of absolute freedom, you are creating space to reconnect with your innate wisdom around food and find genuine satisfaction.
Potato soup with bacon & cheese
Potato soup with cheese, bacon, and sour cream
But I have to lose weight for my health!
There’s a lot of evidence that losing weight and keeping it off isn’t possible for most people -- you really need look no further than your own experience, most likely. And each attempt to lose weight messes with your metabolism and appetite over the long term -- it’s not a benign act. Let’s talk about why focusing on weight loss derails you from your actual goals.
5 ways to stop hating exercise
Ah, exercise. The bitchy cousin of dieting. Does the very word just fill you with dread? We’ve come up with all kinds of clever phrases to trick ourselves into doing it -- joyful movement, anyone? -- but the fact is that this is still the one area of self-care and overall wellness that every single one of my clients has struggled with.
the worst thing i ever made
I have never made Thai food before, but I figured I could follow a recipe and it would at least be passable. The main appeal was that I had most of the ingredients already in my kitchen, so it felt like a no brainer. I was wrong.
sydney’s sage advice
When I sat down to work on this piece yesterday, I asked Sydney what I should write my weekly email about.
“Tell them how I was a late talker but I turned out just fine, which means that everyone is different, and that it’s fine to be exactly how you are.”
sweet dumpling squash with sausage stuffing
Sweet dumpling squash stuffed with sausage stuffing and mozzarella cheese