• What Happens When You’re Always Trying To Eat Less

    The advice I got growing up – from friends, family, and strangers – was to eat very little. Less less less. Control control control. Tighten tighten tighten. People were shocked when they saw how much I ate at times. They asked if I was pregnant. I was 16 years old, thin, and the only chance […]

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  • How To Hear Your Intuition

    This is a question I get a lot: How can you hear your intuition? Let your mind rest so your soul can speak. Soul. Intuition. Instinct. They’re deeply connected. We can’t hear them well when the mind is running. I used to spend a large percentage of the day analyzing what I’d eaten so far, […]

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  • The Reason “Buckling Down” Usually Backfires

    There was this mind-blowing food study done on healthy soldiers who had never dieted, included in the OG Intuitive Eating book. Long story short: After beginning to restrict and control their food, the test group developed a preoccupation with food. They began thinking about it and dreaming about it all the time, to the point […]

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