24 Nov, 2024
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Why Body Shaming Has No Place in the Olympics

Team USA’s Ilona Maher, an Olympic Rugby player, is a true powerhouse on and off the field. She went viral this week after responding to a body-shaming comment on one of her recent TikTok videos, where the commenter said about Ilona, “I bet that person has a 30{dfac5e6feebc182a3317a1800a78117261554ecfb6a579338c4abc2638d58697} BMI.” But Ilona didn’t just let the […]

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Can You Add Joy to Your Workout Routine?

How often do you find joy when you’re exercising? If your answer is “never” or “rarely,” it’s probably time to reevaluate. Physical activity need not be a miserable experience. It shouldn’t be punitive, compensatory, or self-attacking. While a workout might be challenging or difficult at times, it should never be painful, motivated by fear, or […]

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Doing Your Best is Burning You Out|144

Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. This episode is for all of you high achievers, all of us high achievers. Those of us who approach life feeling like it is our job to always do our best. Today, I want to talk about overwhelm and overeating and what happens when doing your best is […]

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Eating disorder treatment professionals: Stop telling people “binge” eating is bad

I’ve written about binge/feast eating many times before. There is a whole chapter in my book about it. I’m still going to keep blogging about this frequently as it is a message that I’m passionate about. I believe the the misunderstanding about “binge” eating is what prevents many treatment centres and treatment professionals from truly […]

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It’s National Farmers Market Week! Support your local farmers market!

USDA has proclaimed August 4 – 10 as National Farmers Market Week.  I love farmers markets and I’m glad USDA is trying to promote them. USDA publishes a directory of US farmers markets—7,033 listings. It also lists Agrotourism sites (12,763) CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture (1,011) Food hubs (230) On-farm markets 1,937) Farmers markets have a […]