PICTURE THIS… It’s 6am and your alarm goes off. You roll out of bed, eyes still half shut, and the first thing you do is take the scale out of your bathroom closet. So many thoughts are going through your head at this time, “Please let my weight be lower than yesterday!” You get on […]

These days when you get engaged, it feels like you barely have enough time to celebrate the exciting milestone with your partner, family and friends before social media starts targeting you and your newly bejeweled left hand with ads for detoxes, quick fixes, flat tummy whatevers and new “it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle” […]

Google “Emotional Eating” and you will be presented with a page full of articles detailing the horrors of emotional eating, most of which are laced with toxic diet culture messages (for the record, we don’t actually recommend doing this). Certainly not helpful if you’re looking to heal your relationship with food and are working on […]

As you navigate the world, you are inevitably going to have to navigate your own relationship with your body image. Whether this be a challenging, neutral or positive one – the relationship with your body is one that you have for the rest of your life and can impact how you interact with the world.  […]

By now, I am sure you have heard us talk about the infamous “diet culture”. But what exactly does that mean? Well, as simple as it may sound, diet culture is not only a multifactorial part of our society but also a part of history. With pervasive messages about weight loss, the new “superfoods”, and […]