Living in a culture that erroneously conflates health, value, and worth with body size, weight-based discrimination runs rampant. That patients seek treatments to shrink their bodies, often by any means necessary, is no surprise. Weight loss surgeries represent one such approach. Though increasing in popularity, steadily climbing from 158,000 in 2011 to 252,000 in 2018,…
Media and research most often paints eating disorders as a thin-young-white woman’s problem. In such a climate, it will not come as a surprise that resources for – and even conversations surrounding – people of other gender identities experiencing eating disorders are few and far between. The truth is that eating disorders are not one-size-fits-all…
“Food, no matter how pure, cannot fill the space in your soul that longs for love and spiritual experience. If you are trying to use it for this purpose, you may have gone astray on your journey.” Steven Bratman, MD Can the pursuit of healthy eating be taken to an unhealthy extreme? Conversations around orthorexia…
This guest post was written by Lauren Newman. Follow Lauren on instagram @gofeedyourself_ As a dietetic intern and HAES (Health at Every Size®) advocate, I’m in an usual position: I’ve spent the past several years learning from a weight-normative paradigm in classes, while simultaneously educating myself on a weight-inclusive one on my own time.…
By Crystal Karges “Giving birth and being born brings us into the essence of creation, where the human spirit is courageous and bold and the body, a miracle of wisdom.” – Harriette Hartigan Today’s mothers are faced with intense scrutiny when it comes to their bodies and appearances. Raising children in our current culture…