After giving birth, I was in "IT", with "IT" being how relentless life can be. Ten months of pregnancy. Labor. Birth. And then a mysterious little baby to protect and nurture with no sleep or manual. Who came up with this (non) plan!? And then COVID happened four months later. Often when you ...
COVID: The Emotional Eating Arc of the Pandemic
The COVID behavioral health trajectory mirrors the out of control eating cycle. The toll of our COVID era is why many of us turned to food for the first time or eating issues returned for others. Or for others, it got worse, better or stayed all-or-nothing. If we can understand our COVID eating ...
COVID: The Emotional Eating Arc of the Pandemic – Insatiable Special Coronavirus Podcast
Download the transcript (PDF) Special Coronavirus Edition The COVID behavioral health trajectory mirrors the out of control eating cycle. The toll of our COVID era is why many of us turned to food for the first time or eating issues returned for others. Or for others, it got worse, ...
Free workshop. Your COVID Emotional Eating Arc: How to Recover and Rebuild Back Better
I've been hearing from many of you—some for the first time—that your eating has been all over the place during COVID. My client, Mel Hodgman, shared with our Truce with Food group research that outlines the behavioral health trajectory of natural disasters like COVID. And it turns out, the ...
My Birth Story: Truce with Food style
One main reason clients work with me is they feel out of control around food. They are all-or-nothing with eating, exercising and, often, life itself. Part of our work is discovering what I call Option C, choices between the "I can't keep this up" (all) and self-hating and self-doubt ...
The Art of Falling Apart with Serena Ryder
Last week, many of us awoke to yet another white domestic terrorism massacre that this time, targeted the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. My heart is with all of you who feel unsafe right now. I continue to do my own social justice work to unlearn my own racism, including in ...
New Freebie: 10 Journal Prompts to Unearth Your Body Story
I created a free download to support you to unearth your food and body story. My goal with these journal prompts is to help you see how STORIES (not willpower or discipline) determine if we're in or out of control with food. These journal prompts are meant to encourage nuanced, individualized ...
Clean eating myths, root cause of allergies + sleep tips
A theme on my IG Live last Thursday was dispelling the clean eating and living illusion. Clean eating and sacrificial health ideas in America like "no pain, no gain" or "nothing tastes as good as thin feels" are influenced by the idea of purity, as defined from a white Puritan, Christian ...
Gut Health: counter-intuitive food habits + emotional stress trumps a clean diet
On my IG Live last Thursday, my friend and host of the Microbiome Report podcast Andrea Wein joined me to talk gut health. The overall message, which I think is counter to mainstream marketing, is that gut health is found in basic nutrition habits, not probiotic supplements or "Prebiotic ...
How to skip “The Sugars” when tired (real life coaching example!)
We did my first ever "live coaching" on IG Live last Thursday with Victoria. We coached around the root cause of her turning to "The Sugars" (I love this description Victoria!) to numb out feeling tired and ideas on how to get the energy she needs. And then Katie and I discuss different treatment ...