Posts tagged self love
How To Stay Balanced & Grounded During the Holidays

I often hear people talk about how they always eat too much, drink too much, buy too many presents for their kids, and then after the holidays feel like crap. They have a holiday ‘hangover’. It’s a pattern they fall into every year, and while they don’t like it, it’s become their “story.” But what if you were to tell yourself a different story? What if you thought through exactly how you want the season to play out

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What I REALLY wish I'd told the girls...

I recently led a nutrition workshop for teen girls, something I was passionate about teaching. Was it successful? Did I get across what I wished I had known as a girl? I taught them how to make a healthy plate, so their blood-sugar levels give them all kinds of sustained energy.

But what I REALLY wanted to tell them was this:

I know what it's like to hate your body. To spend years and years trying to perfect it, punish it, starve it, compare it to every other body out there…

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