We live in a culture that provides countless ways to question our worth and few ways to trust and love ourselves, including with our food. To overcome all these confusing messages about what and how much to eat, we can become intuitive eaters, which empowers you to listen to the natural cues of your body to determine when and what to eat, and enables you to make peace with food, your body, and yourself.

We’re often own own worst critics when it comes to our bodies, but showing ourselves compassion is proven to be effective at alleviating the experience of pain and suffering from negative body image and promotes self-acceptance.

Of the myriad of human emotions, shame is arguably the most distressing of them all. Learn how self-compassion can be used to minimize harmful feelings of shame.

The practice of self-compassion can help ease and even eliminate the mental turmoil that perfection causes.

Our need for love and belonging is as essential as the physiological and safety needs. To truly feel love and belonging, we must start with self-acceptance.

Body image disturbance is one of the hardest challenges to overcome in eating disorder recovery. Not only is it one of the most difficult issues to treat, but also it is usually the last hurdle to be overcome during eating disorder recovery. Yin yoga offers an accessible entry into allowing a different experience of one’s body.

Through the years I have found that how we approach or handle one aspect of our lives can reflect how we approach other areas of our lives. So if this fear about not having enough or not being enough has you cluttering up your closet, how is it affecting the way you eat? 

So you survived the long Thanksgiving weekend, and now you are feeling bad about your body because you enjoyed the delicious food and drink with your family and friends. But the key to beating your body image blues may be in practicing self-compassion.