If food is nourishment and medicine, what happens when it’s restricted, cut out, and stressed about? For the past few weeks, I have been providing education on diet and wellness culture, food addiction, and eating disorders. After a little break for a two-part essential oils’ podcast blast, it’s now time to return to these...
(Access the show notes and the podcast links by clicking here.) We’ve been covering some pretty intense topics the past few weeks in my series on diet and wellness culture, food addiction, and eating disorders. This week, it’s time for a little break. I’m inviting you to sit back, relax, and listen-in to some...
What is it about food that makes us personify it, argue about it, and sanctify or demonize it? Food can be medicine to our brain and bodies, but why is it such a controversial topic? It has gotten to a point where health influencers are encouraging people to only spend time with others who...
Wait, you don’t need to stop crunching on that potato chip! You also don’t need to hide your chocolate bar and start shaming yourself because you read my headline. In my recent article and video, I continue to “weigh” the evidence for and against labeling food as an addiction. My goal is to provide...
Unlike alcohol or drugs, food is essential for life. Though some diet culture enthusiasts may disagree, we need a balance and variety of all foods in our diet to thrive physically, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. Previously, I discussed the damage that diet and wellness culture have had on healthcare and society. I purposely covered...
What if striving to be healthy was actually making you sick? If you are: living with the belief that you have to eat perfectly, or close to perfect, to avoid disease and/or operating within a wellness and diet culture mindset … you may be doing more harm than good to your mental and physical...
It’s official, diet culture has taken over medicine, media, nutrition, and fitness. Its deceitful messages have etched their way into healthcare and have perpetuated body size stigma, weight bias, and substandard medical care. As concerning, many nutritional and medical experts and fitness gurus are promoting orthorexic and disordered eating practices in the name of...
Considering that lately many have been overly focused on their bodily symptoms, and that chronic stress can lead to psychiatric issues, I think it’s imperative that we are all mindful of our emotional state. With the current world events and the rise in mental health conditions, now more than ever it is vital to...
Are you worried all the time? Do you struggle with brain fog, chills, muscle tension, digestive distress, and heart palpitations? It’s always important to rule out any physical cause, but when a clean bill of health by your doctor doesn’t soothe your worries or symptoms, you may be suffering from anxiety. Previously, I discussed...
Every symptom, every heartbeat, every stomach grumble and rumble, every chill…. What if there’s something really wrong? We are living in a world where our amygdalas have been hijacked by negative news and current events. With all that we’ve been through in the past few years, it’s more common than not to be hyper-aware...