Providing compliments and acts of kindness are always nice, but we don’t want the sole focus to be on physical appearance. When you start healing your body image after years of dieting, emphasizing non-physical features helps. Keep reading for why it helps and examples of non-physical compliments. Why it can be more helpful to focus on […]
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Don’t want big accomplishments to feel good and celebrate your progress, especially when you’re working towards healing your relationship with food. At the beginning of my intuitive eating journey, it all felt very vague because I had shifted away from a weight goal. This led to embracing non-scale victories to bring more celebration and focus
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Affirmations can be a useful tool on your body image healing journey. I know they helped me to grow my relationship with my body and food when I first started my food freedom journey. So here’s a list of some of my favorite affirmations for body image and how to create your own. Why use
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Often when dieting, and after years of chronic dieting it’s no surprise you may be concerned about what will happen to your weight once you start intuitive eating. So let’s get into what could happen with your body and weight with intuitive eating. Will you gain weight with intuitive eating? There’s no cut-and-dry answer to
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Maybe you’ve heard of intuitive eating, but what about intuitive movement? Exercise and daily movement helps the human body feel better, and moving regularly doesn’t need to feel like a challenge. It usually feels harder to exercise up to their physical ability because of a negative relationship towards exercise. That’s where moving away from thinking
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It’s natural after years of dieting and diet culture influence to find it difficult to trust yourself around food and your body. As an intuitive eating coach and when learning intuitive eating myself, I found self-trust to be the most important piece to healing your relationship with food. How to start trusting your body more
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A bad body image day can impact your entire day because it becomes so easy to judge yourself for everything when feeling bad. So what do you do to make a bad body image day a little better? Read on for tips. Can you get rid of bad body image days? Bad days are always
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If you find yourself thinking about food all the time, it’s like a complex relationship with food leading to your thinking about food all the time. So this post isn’t going to be some quick fix answer to stop obsessing over food. But I’ll give you an idea of some of the factors that lead
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Intuitive eating is truly a self-care framework. It’s not about eating perfectly, it’s just about eating in a natural way. The first thing I want to say about the principles of intuitive eating is they are not a set of rules. The principles just help to provide a framework for a very open way of
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I hate to admit this, but for years I held a lot of bias against different types of bodies. I thought the best way was to be in shape or be working towards being in shape. At the time I didn’t truly respect my body, even when taking care of myself I was truly just
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