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Navigating Diet Culture While Wedding Planning
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”…
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6 Ways to Make Peace with Emotional Eating
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 appreciating the…
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How to Improve Body Image
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. …
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Understanding Diet Culture (and how to fight back)
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 the workout…
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6 Ways to Start Having Fun with Food
Diet culture wants us to believe that food must be perfect. Made with perfect ingredients and diligent portions in order for it to be considered “good”, while all other experiences are subsequently deemed “bad” or “not good enough.” This reliance solely on external labels or rules disconnects us from being able to trust that our bodies can and should be…
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Reasons to Exercise (Besides Weight Loss)
Movement (in all forms) is an important piece of our overall health and well-being, but, unfortunately, too many workouts are pitched as the means to a “perfect” body or permission to eat the foods you crave. News flash: you have permission to eat ALL foods and this idea of perfection doesn’t actually exist. Unfortunately, the media…
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What to do After Binge Eating
So maybe you have just engaged in binge eating behaviors or are feeling guilt that you have broken one of your food rules. It’s in these moments that diet culture creeps in and has you thinking the best next step is to go on a new, shiny diet, right? Or that drastically changing the way…
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3 Steps to Start Building Body Trust
In a world where we are constantly being told to change our bodies it makes sense that in terms of body trust, we may be lacking. Diet culture does it’s best to keep us stuck in this cycle of wishing our bodies were different. So what’s up with the desire for body change? Our societal obsession with…
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All About Wellness Culture
In today’s day and age, the term wellness has become one of the most talked about topics. From Instagram influencers to healthcare providers – wellness culture is all the rage. But, what does it even mean? And is focusing on wellness even helpful? Let’s dive deeper. First off, what is wellness? Wellness is defined as…
