Eating Disorder Recovery

In her book Pursuing Perfection, eating disorder expert Margo Maine writes: “Clearly, the passage of time isn’t helping aging women feel more at peace with their bodies, or making things better for younger women following them into adulthood. The legacy of body image and weight obsession is passed down from one generation to the next, […]

I’ve been talking to folks a lot lately, in this time of “fresh starts” and resolutions, about something that comes up often in eating disorder recovery, that is, how to tell the difference between a health-promoting goal and a goal that is motivated by something more disordered. It’s easy to confuse the two (or for […]

I have often said that my patron saints are the feisty ones, the irreverent ones, the people who think deeply and compassionately about the human experience but aren’t afraid to curse a little. As far as I can tell, if we’re paying attention and telling the truth, cursing is hard to avoid.  Nadia Bolz Weber […]

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 […]

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 […]