A Mom’s Response to What Is “Healthy Food?”
Recently I was asked by a friend on Facebook if I have a healthy mac and cheese recipe, after I shared this following picture and caption: “They’re not all nastygrams, as we call my...
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How I Made Friends with Food.
We can’t outrun our diets—for a long time I didn’t want this statement to be true. But it is. We absolutely cannot outrun our diets. But what can we do? I’ve written before about how...
What You Didn’t See When You Looked at A “Skinny Mom”: A Response.
This is an open rebuttal to an extremely damaging article currently making its rounds via Scary Mommy. I’d like to first openly suggest that had this original post been written from a “skinny mom’s” perspective...
What Our Relationship with Food Says About Our Relationship with Ourselves.
I can often tell how I feel emotionally by the foods and drinks that I consume. Granted, I’m largely a healthy eater. When I say healthy eater I mean that I’m a balanced eater....
Raising Girls with Healthy Body Images.
Author’s note: This was written and published to honor National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. I wet my hands in the bathroom sink. Her hair drips in fluid spirals as soon as I lightly pat...
There is Strength in Our Scars: 4 Tips For Self-Love & Acceptance.
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ~ Khalil Gibran I don’t identify myself as being anorexic. At all. That said, I was severely anorexic...
