FB

Say No to Diets. Reject Society’s Thin Ideal. Heal from Diet Culture.

Get the Body Joyful Blueprint Guide
5 secrets to food freedom & body confidence without restrictions.

Blog

How to embrace Body Neutrality in 2024

How to embrace Body Neutrality in 2024

In a world often obsessed with societal ideals of beauty, the concept of body neutrality has emerged as a refreshing approach to self and body acceptance. The concept of Body neutrality changed the way I saw myself, because it focused on the bodies function rather...

Accepting the Aging Body

Accepting the Aging Body

As we age, not only do we gain more and more wisdom, learn more about what we love and what we don’t, we also begin to see more wrinkles, sags, or gray hairs when we look in the mirror. We wake up one morning and our arms look different.  The dress that fit just right...

The Gift of Body Neutrality

The Gift of Body Neutrality

How a stuffed animal led to Body Neutrality The girls and I sat on the floor next to the Christmas tree. It was a year after the divorce and my relationship with them was tenuous at best. I was doing the best I knew how, but I was still in self-destruction mode. They...

How to stop dieting & heal your relationship with food

How to stop dieting & heal your relationship with food

As a Body Joyful Expert for the online publication Crunchy Tales, I wanted to share this impactful blog I wrote about healing your relationship with food and finally rejecting diet culture for good.  It is never too late. How to Stop Dieting in your 50's and beyond......

7 Ways to Embrace Body Neutrality

7 Ways to Embrace Body Neutrality

How do you feel about your body? If you are like most women, you have days where you struggle.  As a matter of fact, over 90% of us have “I hate my body!” moments every day, and the fact that 80% of our thoughts repeat day after day, makes for a lot of negative...

Don’t weight! Honor your ‘here and now’ body today

Don’t weight! Honor your ‘here and now’ body today

Oh...how I wish I had a dollar for all the times I had said “No” to doing something I really wanted to because… I didn't want people to see my body I would have to explain what or why I was eating whatever I was eating I certainly didn't want to tempt myself with...

Why Avoiding Oppressive Diet Culture is Good for your Health

Why Avoiding Oppressive Diet Culture is Good for your Health

You wake up in a fabulous mood, had a good night sleep and are ready for your day.  On your way to work, you walk into the local grocery store to pick up some coffee for the office and proceed to the check-out line. As you are waiting in line, you look to your left,...

Creating Ripples of Self-Worth

Creating Ripples of Self-Worth

I stand on my deck and throw a stone into the glass like water on the small pond outside nearby.  There is instant impact, a circular ripple that spreads out towards the edges of the pond.  It is like the impact that we have on the others around us every day.  You...

How to make this your best one yet? Create a destination postcard!

How to make this your best one yet? Create a destination postcard!

2022 is almost a memory.  How was your 2022?  Have you asked yourself that?   If not, go here to ask yourself some important questions to move into 2023 with some added wisdom!  I am reposting this blog, because every year we deserve a re-due! It turned out to be...

Get the Body Joyful Blueprint Guide

5 secrets to food freedom & body confidence without restrictions.