Posts tagged wellness
Intuitive Eating and IBS: Part 1

Google what to eat for IBS and you’ll find most of the recommendations are all about eliminating certain foods or elimination diets. But these common recommendations for IBS can sometimes make things worse and not better, especially if you struggle with disordered eating. This post on intuitive eating and IBS shares how non-diet approaches can help manage your symptoms.

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A Holistic Approach to Health: Taking Care of Yourself Outside of Food and Fitness

The way we discuss health in our culture centers food and fitness. While how we feed and move our body certainly has an impact on health and wellbeing, but that’s just a small piece of the puzzle. This blog post shares ideas for taking a holistic approach to health with seven tips for improving health outside of diet and exercise.

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Four Types of Hunger in Intuitive Eating: Physical Hunger, Emotional Hunger, Taste Hunger and Practical Hunger

In intuitive eating, you hear a lot about hunger. But did you know there are more ways to experience hunger than just physical hunger? This post explores the four types of hunger in intuitive eating - physical, emotional, taste and practical - and how to respond to each.

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Understanding the Stages of Body Grief

For most people, part of the intuitive eating process is accepting that your body may be bigger than the body you have spent a good chunk of your life working towards. For understandable reasons, that can trigger some pretty intense emotions through a process called body grief. This blog post explains the stages of body grief, and ideas for processing through each.

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The MANY Problems with BMI - aka The BS Measuring Index

BMI charts are as ubiquitous to doctors offices as stethoscopes and thermometers, a crude formula that categorizes people into categories based on weight. Most people recognize the BMI scale has problems, but most don’t realize just how bunk BMI actually is. Learn about the problems with BMI, and why we should stop using this metric to measure health.

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