If you’ve been a follower of the Instagram page for a while, you may remember this post from July of 2020, which reads “Food freedom means being equally excited to add cherries and chips to my grocery cart”. Conversations similar to this have been a theme lately so a full post seemed timely for anyone who might’ve missed the post or be a newer follower to the blog/Instagram. If reading the above sentence feels uncomfortable or impossible for you, I encourage you to be curious

If you’ve been here for a while, you may remember a post a few months ago titled “Lessons Learned from a Mug of Hot Chocolate”, and we are back again today with another experience: Lessons Learned While Strawberry Picking. These experiences are really fun to have and write about because they show that even for someone who practices and preaches Intuitive Eating, there are still always opportunities for reflection and it isn’t just something you necessarily do on autopilot all

If you’re on an Intuitive Eating (IE) journey and find yourself thinking “Did I do this right?” “Am I messing this up?”, stop yourself right there! The wonderful thing, (well one of many wonderful things) about IE is that there is no way to “do it wrong”. Given that this framework is not a diet with a black and white set of guidelines, it really asks you to lean into the gray area of it. This can certainly be challenging when you are coming away from working against more of t

With the weather finally starting to warm up, you may find yourself gravitating towards different food items (seasonal items), cooking...

I hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend! MDW feels like the unofficial start to summer and the weather seems to be playing along with some really hot days already in areas that experience more seasonal weather. And you know what goes great with warm weather? Ice cream. Real, deal ice cream. You have full permission to buy (and enjoy) full-fat ice cream from an ice cream shop or the grocery store. If you saw this recent Instagram post, we touched on how fat equals flav

I don’t know about you, but it seems like almost overnight a lot of changes have all started to happen at once! The weather is getting warmer, certain states have been more lenient with COVID restrictions, and you may be socializing more. If you are feeling anxious about any of this please know that your feelings are valid; the past 14 months or so have been completely unprecedented. Also if you are choosing to socialize more, please ensure you are still protecting your peace

Are you someone who struggles with making decisions around breakfast, or don’t really like “breakfast food”? If you answered yes, I see you and can see that having that first meal of the day can be that much more challenging, especially if you are in eating disorder recovery and having to introduce more consistent and adequate nutrition. Something that can be helpful for clients to challenge when struggling with breakfast is to come away from only considering the more traditi

Welcome to the final installment of these posts rounding up some more “basic” nutrition around macro and micronutrients. To reiterate from previous posts (which can be found here: Nutrition Basics: Part 1: Macronutrients, Nutrition Basics: Part 2: Water Soluble Vitamins and Nutrition Basics Part 3: Fat Soluble Vitamins), focusing on taking in enough nutrition (calories in general) needs to be the number one priority. Then we can take a more fine tuned look at someone’s intake

March may have come and gone and with that brought about National Nutrition Month, which inspired these posts talking about some of the “basics” of nutrition. However the learning still continues! Notice how basics are in quotation marks given that even this information often gets convoluted by diet culture and becomes tricky to know and understand! The first two parts in this series can be found here: Nutrition Basics: Part 1: Macronutrients and Nutrition Basics: Part 2: Wat

Let us continue the series of nutrition basics as a way to celebrate National Nutrition Month, and today cover micronutrients! If you missed the first post about macronutrients, it can be found here: Nutrition Basics: Part 1: Macronutrients. Micronutrients aka vitamins and minerals as you may hear them referred to more commonly. Comparatively speaking to macronutrients, our bodies require lesser (hence “micro”) amounts of these nutrients for roles and functioning. However, th