You Can’t Hate Yourself Healthy

Here’s the strategy you’ve been sold: First, you must hate your body. You must see it as a flawed, disgusting, and unacceptable thing. You must generate enough shame and self-loathing to finally motivate yourself to change. Then, from that place of hatred, you are supposed to engage in “healthy” behaviors. You are supposed to lovingly […]

The Wellness Industry is Selling You a Prettier Cage

You graduated from diet culture. You’re too smart for that overt, toxic bullshit. You threw out the low-fat yogurt and the 100-calorie snack packs years ago. Now, you’re into wellness. Your cage just got an upgrade. It’s no longer made of cheap plastic and shame. Now it’s made of organic, gluten-free, sustainably sourced, non-GMO, adaptogenic, […]

Survival Mode vs. Thriving Mode

Let’s talk about your life in terms of an operating system. There are two basic modes you can run on: For most high-performing women, you are a master of Thriving Mode in your career. You are strategic, visionary, and focused on growth. But when it comes to your body, your health, and your relationship with […]

Your Body Has Been Speaking to You All Along

For years, you’ve been operating under the assumption that your body is the problem. It’s unpredictable. It’s untrustworthy. It has desires that seem designed to sabotage you. You’ve treated it like a rogue employee that needs to be managed, disciplined, and controlled. What if that’s not true? What if your body is actually a highly […]

What If Your Body Isn’t the Problem, but the Portal Is?

For your entire life, you’ve been taught to relate to your body as a problem. It’s too big, too small, too soft, too loud, too much. It’s a source of shame, a project to be managed, a battle to be won. You have spent countless hours and immeasurable energy trying to fix it, tame it, […]

That 3pm Chocolate Craving? It’s Not About the Chocolate.

It’s 3 p.m. The afternoon slump hits. Your brain feels like mush, and suddenly, a craving for chocolate descends like a fog. It’s not a gentle suggestion; it’s a primal, overwhelming demand. You know the drill. You try to resist. You tell yourself you’ll be “good.” You try to drink some water. But the craving […]

Your Cravings Aren’t Sabotage. They’re Sacred Messages.

Let’s talk about cravings. That sudden, overwhelming, hijack-your-brain demand for chocolate, or chips, or a vat of pasta. In the world of diet culture, cravings are the villain. They are the saboteur. They are proof of your weakness, your lack of discipline, your failure. We are taught to see them as an invading force to […]

You Can’t Listen to Your Body From Fight-or-Flight

“Just listen to your body.” If you’ve ever wanted to throw a book across the room after reading that phrase, I get it. It is the single most infuriating piece of advice given to smart women who are struggling with food. Because you’ve been trying to listen. You’ve been straining to hear that wise, intuitive […]

The Opposite of Dieting Isn’t Chaos. It’s Intelligence.

There’s a fear that lives deep in the heart of every person who has ever been on a diet. It’s the fear that if you stop controlling, if you stop restricting, if you let go of the rules… you will never stop eating. You will descend into a chaotic spiral of non-stop binges on pizza […]

You Can Run a Company, But You Can’t Control What You Eat. Here’s the Real Reason Why.

You can negotiate a multi-million dollar deal with ice in your veins. You can lead your team through a crisis with grace and precision. You can architect a five-year growth plan that is a thing of beauty. Your capacity for discipline, strategy, and getting things done is not in question. And yet. There you are, […]