Unlocking Food Freedom: Empowering Emotional Eaters to Rediscover Peace with Food
It’s time to unlock a new way of being with food. Embrace a more sustainable approach to eating that empowers you to end emotional eating and rediscover peace with food. This is your moment to make a difference in your own life. Move out of the never-ending cycle of dieting, losing weight, gaining weight, and […]
Fighting Anorexia: Another year almost over
I cant believe 2018 is coming to an end. It has been a huge year for me and although I have been faced with many challenges, I think I have managed to stay in top of things ok. I’m not going to lie to you all, there have been times when my eating disorder stuff […]
VIP Coaching Spots are open! [fall 2022]
We’re coming up to the end of the year + starting to picture the new year on the horizon… And maybe, like me, you’re starting to have thoughts trickle in about where you’re at. In your life, your business, and about your own happiness on a day-to-day basis. And I imagine there’s some things you’re […]
A Vote for Love – Peggy Farah, LMHC, RCC Deeper Cravings
Today many hearts are broken, many hearts are grieving, many hearts are fearful, many hearts are celebrating, many hearts are relieved, many hearts are wrapped in hope. Today, we interpret our world from many different places but what unifies us is that at the center of ALL hearts there is a yearning for peace. We […]
A Patient’s Transformation and the Impact on Multiple Organ Systems: OAC Attends ASMBS’ 40th Annual Meeting
The 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), held at the San Diego Convention Center from June 9th to 13th, 2024, is the largest gathering of surgeons and integrated health professionals in metabolic and bariatric surgery. This year’s theme, “The MBS (Metabolic Bariatric Surgery) Butterfly Effect: A Patient’s Transformation […]
Feeling Stuck in Your Battle Against an Eating Disorder?
Imagine a kind of eating disorder treatment where how many times you binged or purged, or how much weight you gained this week, or how well you stuck to your meal plan was not important. Imagine that instead, what mattered is how well your actions throughout the week were in service to your true values. […]
Should I eat breakfast if I’m not hungry?
For our whole lives we’ve heard “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” Then along comes mindful eating and the answer to the question, “Should I eat breakfast if I’m not hungry?” isn’t so clear cut! The old adage stems from the very word “breakfast,” which refers to “breaking the fast.” Typically, the […]
Navigating Eating Disorder Care: Unique Challenges for AAPI Individuals | ANAD
1. Role of Community and Collectivistic Values: In AAPI culture, community values play a significant role and can be both a barrier and a source of strength in eating disorders and disordered eating recovery. The strong emphasis on collectivism over individualism means that the well-being of the group often takes precedence over personal needs. This […]
STOP HATING YOUR BODY – igotthisdrankimuhcup: Not sorry, my outfit was…
StopHatingYourBody a place of encouragement, a place to discuss body image, insecurities, self-esteem, and everything under the umbrella of fighting self-hate and finding self-love. We aspire to hold space for groups that are under/misrepresented in media, to uplift the narratives and give attention to body positive folx, women,LGBTQIA+, people of color, people of different sizes, […]
WELCOME TO THE NEW 2021 BLOG SERIES! – Eat Sanely
I am thrilled to restart my Eat Sanely blog and to introduce the new edition of my workbook Eat Sanely: Toward a Healthy Relationship with Food and a Good Enough Weight. If we’ve not met before, let me introduce myself. I am Terese Weinstein Katz, psychologist, eating disorder specialist, and advocate for us all to […]
Introducing Jean Jing Yin Sum – 2021-2022 Trainee of the Year Award winner
Welcome to our blog series profiling the winners of the 2021-2022 Beautiful You Coaching Academy Awards. The awards aim to uplift and honour our worldwide community of coaches and the incredible work they are doing through their coaching, events, programs, books, products, podcasts and more. Get ready to have your mind and heart blown wide […]
FDA says (quietly) CAFOs contaminate leafy greens
The FDA has issued its boringly titled Southwest Agricultural Region Environmental Microbiology Study (2019 – 2024). The report seems designed to be boring. Its subject, however, is anything but. Let me do some translating (in Italics). “The study was designed to improve understanding of the environmental factors that may impact the presence of foodborne pathogens […]