Body Dysmorphia affects 1 in 50 people.

New medications to treat eating disorders, emotional eating, and food addiction?

Elimination diets like Autoimmune Protocol (AIP), Keto, Atkins, and others, can frequently lead to disordered eating.

Emotional eating is incredibly common and makes intuitive eating incredibly challenging.

Social media has a corrosive impact on girls’ physical and mental health. Dove’s commercial, which is one of the most powerful, heartbreaking, and touching that I’ve ever seen, shines a spotlight on this epidemic.

Interoceptive awareness is the ability to perceive and understand the internal sensations and physiological responses of the body - and it’s central to issues of emotional and disordered eating. Self-compassion can help boost interoceptive awareness.

Self-compassion combined with reparenting is a powerful and effective approach to healing disordered eating patterns.

While intuitive eating focuses on listening to your body’s cues and eating without restriction, self-compassion helps you address the underlying emotional and psychological issues driving your disordered eating.

Self-compassion is a more powerful tool than Intuitive Eating for addressing disordered eating.

Interoception is the ability to sense and understand internal bodily sensations, which is crucial in emotional regulation and hunger sensations. However, for individuals with disordered eating, interoception is low.

For too many, AIP and other restrictive diets are the start of a painful, emotional journey they didn’t see coming. Instead of finding the magic bullet, they felt was promised to them