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How to make this your best one yet? Create a destination postcard!
2024 is almost a memory. How was it for you? Did you try anything new? Learn anything new? Get rid of some old habits that where not serving you? Start a new habit that is helping move you forward in the direction you want to go? I am reposting this blog once...
What the heck is a Release-O-Lution?
Every January 1, we always hear the same thing... “This year my resolutions are…(fill in the blank).” and it always revolves around weight, food, eating or exercise with the women that I work with. And we know that dieting, restricting and over exercising DO NOT...
Ask yourself these top 10 Year End Questions!
This year has brought many surprises and many shifts in the way we do things. Different problems, along with some new opportunities. We had to find ways to navigate this new normal. Another year is in the book, one that has been interesting for us all to learn from. ...
What is The Body Joyful Revolution?
What type of conversations go on inside your head? Self-criticism? Judgment of others? Fear of failure? Worry about what others are thinking about you? You rock? You got this? How much time does your self-talk consume? And is more of it positive or negative?...
Surprising Places & Ways to Find Self-Care this Holiday Season
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” —W. H. Davies Believe it or not the holidays are just around the corner. That means, much like the Halloween witch or goblin, fear is lurking. Many people get anxious and fearful this time...
The difference between Body Neutrality & Body Positivity
How do you feel about your body? Did you feel about your body when you were a kid? Is it different than it is today? If you fall in the norm, you don’t like your body all that much. Most women don’t. (75% of women don’t want to leave their home due to how they feel...
Are you part of the problem, or part of the solution?
“I have been buying into the diet industry my whole life and then I became part of the problem,” Valerie Bertinelli recently stated in an interview shortly after she was trolled on twitter about her new book “Enough Already”. I must agree, many of us have been buying...
Pinterest Bans Weight Loss Language and Imagery to Champion Body Neutrality and Acceptance
As a pioneer of the Body Neutrality movement since 2015, leader of Body Joyful Revolution and author of the Body Joyful book, I congratulate and welcome Pinterest to the Body Joyful Revolution. This is a BIG deal. Pinterest has put its foot down and has BANNED...
5 Steps to Body and Food Freedom this Summer
For way too many years, body and food freedom was a concept I had never considered. Thoughts of food, calories, weight, and body image occupied my brain. Over 90% of my day was spent counting, calculating, comparing, and criticizing. I was adding up calories, points,...
How to Heal Self Hatred
Self Hatred is such a harsh phrase, and yet, something all too familiar. What is the first thing you say to yourself in the morning when you look at yourself in the mirror? Is it something kind and compassionate? Or something negative and judgmental. I know for me,...
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