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“No, my stomach is not flat. And no, this does not automatically mean I am with child.” In one of these instances, I had a book in my arms. The person could’ve easily chosen to ask me what I was reading. Instead, they made assumptions about my body. Because our society normalizes commenting on bodies, strangers often feel entitled to ask invasive queand day out. Babies enter the world without harsh inner critics or body shame. But it doesn’t take long for the outside world t

Author: Kait Vanderlaan, LCSW Traveling to a new place can be such an amazing experience, but it can also be stressful when you live in a...

Author: Lauren Callahan, LCSW When was the last time you played? For some of us, the answer may go as far back as our childhoods. As children, we innately know how to play and enter imaginative worlds. Naturally curious, inquisitive, and creative, children use play to learn about and make sense of the extraordinary and mystifying world around them. At some point, we trade play for the pursuit of straight As and the next promotion. We forget the importance of playfulness in ou

The holidays can be a very stressful time for people with eating disorders. With more family gatherings centered around food, there are...

Sugar is an increasingly hot topic in the nutrition world ever since we all got sick of the depressing low fat era of the 90s. But sugar...

Learning to be an anti-diet intuitive eater means relearning listening to our bodies when deciding what and how much to eat. The idea is...