Diet culture equates hard with healthy.  It tells you that exercise needs to be sweaty, grueling, and regimented, come hell, highwater, below freezing temperatures, or winter bugs.  It tells you that eating needs to be premeditated and mechanical and that meal prep is a nonnegotiable, never mind the fact that you’d rather be sledding with your […]

For decades, we have heard about the “war on ob*sity.” Alongside that rhetoric, we have witnessed, been complicit in, or helped to fund the creation of what is now a $4.2 trillion worldwide wellness industry (Wellness, 2018). But a fat body – a term used descriptively and in recognition of the fact that “ob*sity” is […]

I recently had a client tell me, simply, “everything is a lot.” The snow is a lot. The darkness is a lot. The shopping, the presents, the travel, and the parties are a lot. The state of the world is a lot. The global crises (plural). The kids who can’t do a damn thing about […]

When my son was three-ish years old, he would regularly ask me, “Are we here, Mama?” He did so not in the way most kiddos do, not half an hour into a 14-hour car ride, but rather at the most unexpected moments: sitting on the floor stacking Legos, propped on my hip as I stirred […]

Recently, in my conversation with dietitian Leah Kern on her podcast “Shoulders Down,” I shared this sentiment: “I would rather raise a normal eater than a healthy eater.” Here’s the thing, in many circles, eating “healthy” has come to mean ascribing to a binary in which goodness and value are attached to a particular style […]

In this episode, we are joined by clinical social worker, certified intuitive eating counselor, and HAES aligned therapist, Kate Morris.  In this episode, we talk about:  If you’d prefer to listen, find it here (or wherever you get your podcasts)! Connect with Kate on Instagram @amongthetreescounselingOr via her website: https://amongthetreescounseling.com/contact

Intuitive eating counselor Kate Morris, whose gentle wisdom we first heard last May in episode 56, is back for a much-needed discussion about parenting children (and re-parenting ourselves) to become healthy, happy eaters who trust themselves.  We’re drowning in messages about eating perfectly, feeding our children “well,” and controlling our diet. But if our kids […]

Let’s consider today’s episode the first of many about intuitive eating – a self-care framework that pulls our focus inward, away from diet culture and external authorities on wellness. Truth be told, it’s a scary concept for many of us. Trust our bodies? Give ourselves permission and abundance to discern what we need on any […]