5 Reasons to Ditch Diets this Year
5 Reasons to Ditch Diets this Year January is commonly known as “national dieting month.” This cycle is overdue for a change. Each year people all over the world set out to make the most of the New Year’s blank slate. New year, new me as the saying goes. Willpower is...
Why Anti-Diet is not Anti-Health
Why Anti-Diet is Not Anti-health But first -- Why diets cause harm: Diet culture has embedded into us that following a diet is what leads to better health. Yet, most diets are based on the pursuit of thinness and not health. That being said, it’s important to note...
Beyond the food: A mindfulness-based stress reduction approach and IBS
I’m excited to bring you an informative guest post by the wonderful Dr. Julia King. Dr. King is a psychologist and yoga teacher specializing in treating anxiety and IBS. Dr. King uses her expertise and evidence-based information to breakdown how a mindfulness based...
New Year’s Resolutions… Yay or Nay?!
What are your thoughts... Yay👍🏻 or nay👎🏻 on New Year’s Resolutions? I believe that taking advantage of the "blank slate" offered at the beginning of the year can be a great tool when it comes to making positive changes for our health…with 2 catches: 1) don’t...
Why & how to ditch the “Good” vs. “Bad” food labels
What you eat does not make you "good" or "bad" ...in that moment, that day, that week and it definitely doesn’t define or reflect your character or value as a person. You’re not “good” for eating a salad. It makes you a person who eats salad. On the flip side......
Self-care OVER Self-control
The terms self-control and willpower are often used interchangeably to describe the seemingly “virtuous” act of restricting something such as a desire or emotion. Based on my experience both personally as a human and professionally as a dietitian & health coach...
Self-care is NOT selfish
Happy December! As we are in the midst of the holiday season I wanted to address something that is SO important this time of year: self-care. The holidays can get super busy, and instead of time spent on love and getting into the holiday spirit we can get sometimes...
What is Intuitive Eating?
Embracing your inner infant… We are all (for the most part) born with an innate ability to regulate our food intake. As babies we instinctly knew what, when, and how much food we needed for our body to be healthy and grow. However, for some of us our ability to...
Progress, Not Perfection
When it comes to goal setting, many people attempt to take on a perfectionist attitude, thinking it will lead to success. However, from own personal experience as well as through the work with my clients I’ve seen that the opposite often rings true. Before goal...
Top 5 Mindful Eating Tips
Happy National Mindfulness Day! Mindfulness Day is an emerging annual event, celebrated on September 12, on which day a variety of workshops are held with the intent to raise awareness to the general public about the profound value and benefit of mindfulness. So...