How Can We Eliminate Fat Chat Forever?
July 10, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Activism, Anxiety, Body Image, Bullying, Depression, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, HAES, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Loving Your Body, Mental Health, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Stress Management, Weight Stigma, Wellness, Wellness
I’ve wondered about this since I was in eighth grade. I stood in the lunchroom after school waiting for the bus by myself. None of my few friends were on a late bus so I was alone. Carla* sauntered up with Kerri*, who had the same birthday as me. I was wearing my brand new […]
How to Disrupt Eating Disorder Patterns to Better Your Life
June 16, 2014 by Joanna Poppink
Filed under Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Freedom, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Volunteering
Do you want a more interesting life filled with projects you care about and people you enjoy being with? Your own efficient routines may be getting in your way. Here’s how to find opportunity doors in your life. Blog this!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare on Posterousshare via RedditShare with StumblersShare on […]
Duh and Re-duh
May 7, 2014 by Karen R. Koenig
Filed under Binge Eating, Disordered Eating, Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Healthy Coping, Intuitive Eating, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion
It’s very common as you’re learning new behaviors to make the same “errors” around food repeatedly. It doesn’t mean you’re stupid. It simply takes a good deal of practice for the brain to rewire. Not being hard on yourself in the process will help you learn faster. I call this repetition of learning experiences duh […]
Negative Emotions: Toxic or Healthy?
April 1, 2014 by Chris Kingman
Filed under Anxiety, Depression, Empowerment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings, Wellness
“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.” —Carl Jung Experiencing negative emotions is an unavoidable dimension of human life: fear, anger, jealousy/envy, anxiety, depression, insecurity, hopelessness, inadequacy, etc. We all grapple with these feelings at one time or another and on any given day their intensity can be minute, moderate or severe. Either way, […]
How to love your body. No Seriously!!
March 20, 2014 by Priscilla Jadallah
Filed under Anorexia, Athletes, Binge Eating, Body Dysmorphia, Body Image, Bulimia, Depression, Disordered Eating, Drunkorexia, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fat Talk, Featured, Livin in the Moment, Loving Your Body, Males with Eating Disorders, Mindfulness, Orthorexia, Over-Exercise, Over-Exercise, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Weight Stigma
I see many different lists of how to love your body and improve body image. These lists are often filled with beautiful affirmations and postivity however for many people struggling with negative body image or deep insecurities with their body, affirmations are not enough. I created a simple list of ways to start to challenge […]
Quotes for Healing, Support and Inspiration
March 3, 2014 by Joanna Poppink
Filed under Eating Disorders, Empowerment, Finding Your Voice, Healthy Communication, Healthy Coping, Mental Health, Recovery, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Wellness, Wellness, Writing and Poetry
Wisdom quotes you carry in your pocket or post on your wall can inspire your mind and heart plus help keep you on your recovery path. Here are a few you might not know. This one is a guide for anyone with separation difficulties. Blog this!Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on LinkedinShare on […]
What do you love about your body?
February 12, 2014 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Loving Your Body, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion
Men and women spend an enormous amount of time using negative self-talk to minimize, judge and criticize themselves. Most people aren’t even aware of how incessantly this internal tyrannical tape plays. Think about it in your own life – how much negative self-talk to you engage in? If you engage in any, it’s already too […]
New Year, New You? Heck NO! – The New Year’s Anti-Resolution
January 27, 2014 by Amy Leigh Mercree
Filed under Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Loving Your Body, Media Literacy, Mental Health, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion, Wellness
How did you feel about the usual barrage of new year’s resolution marketing this year? Did it annoy you? Make you feel like you should join in? Did it piss you off and make you want to rebel against it? However much it affected you, or didn’t, odds are it did affect you a little […]
wabi-sabi
January 14, 2014 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Empowerment, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance, Self-Compassion, Spirituality, Wellness
“Wabi Sabi is a way of life that appreciates and accepts complexity while at the same time values simplicity. It nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect. To accept these realities is to accept contentment as the maturation of happiness, and to acknowledge […]
The Trick Is Not “Not Minding”
December 10, 2013 by Jodi Rubin
Filed under Body Image, Depression, Freedom, Healthy Coping, Livin in the Moment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Self-Care, Self-Compassion, Sharing Feelings
Gaius Mucius is at the center of this story about conquering pain. As a young Roman in the 6th Century B.C. he was captured and threatened with being burned alive. To prove his courage, he stuck his right hand into the fire until it burned, thereby losing his right hand and earning the name “Scaevola” […]
