It’s been a minute. I was very sick the first week of June and it took quite a long time for me to recover my energy (in part because I have an 8-month old that still doesn’t sleep through the night consistently). Hence why there wasn’t a Well-Rounded last week. We will resume in July. This ...
Ali's Think Pieces
Taking My Own Medicine: How I Accepted and Overcame my Infertility Diagnosis
“I wish I focused on my fertility at 39 instead of at 43. Those four years make a difference,” said my best friend who was in the grips of IVF. Her advice led me, at 39, to get a fertility workup. I was yet to get pregnant again after miscarrying at 37. I had never known if I wanted kids and when ...
4 Food Freedom Truths at 40 Years Old!
And just like that, I turned 40 on October 1! Per my Dad, "Life’s a bullet train" ... As someone who doesn’t identify much with pop culture, I’m surprised at how 40 feels like a threshold. Not the one our culture wants me to believe, where my worth is like a crashing stock because 40 means ...
How to Reduce the Scale’s Power
Do you remember when the scale became the dictator of how you felt about yourself? For some of my clients and myself, it was usually around a time when there was some sort of chaos in our lives. Assessing the scale became a bucket to dump all that uncertainty into. I remember after chemo, ...
My Forbes Magazine feature (and Editor’s Pick), Leading in Your Health and Career
To say it’s bad here in the U.S. right now is an understatement. Depending upon your sensitivity and level of privilege (or blessings, as my religious friends say), we’re all feeling it to varying degrees. I myself am really struggling. I care so deeply. I've marched, done Affordable Care Act ...
My Commitment to Dismantling Racism in Wellness Spaces
I have put off writing this post because discussing race in America is always loaded. I’m only at the beginning of understanding the impacts of racism in this country and an email can only be so long. But this is an honest, albeit imperfect, piece about my commitment to dismantling racism in ...
Last day and is this the real reason you’ve been stuck around food all these years?
Registration for Truce with Food 2018 closes today. And GO EAGLES! Beat those PatrCHEATS! #flyeaglesfly One of my 2018 goals is resuming a retirement savings strategy. I started one during my Corporate job. Then I left for the start-up life and my financial focus was paying for graduate ...
Why we backslide and gain weight
Truce with Food is open for registration for five more days. This program is for women only. I was in a constant cycle of binging or eating poorly and then getting angry. I spent so much energy figuring out how to "fix" myself. Thanks to Truce with Food, I can’t remember the last time I binged! I ...
Truce with Food is open for registration
Truce with Food 2018 registration opens today and ends next Monday. Truce with Food is a complete mindset reboot around food, your body and life. It’s a research-based, client-proven framework to learn what foods work for your body and how to get unstuck from years of emotional patterns that keep ...
Is this popular emotional eating tip keeping you stuck?
Want a free sample of Truce with Food? Join us. Twenty years ago, when I was struggling with dieting and emotional eating, I found one expert, Geneen Roth, on the topic. I read her book, Breaking Free From Emotional Eating. For the first time, I didn’t feel alone in my debilitating preoccupation ...