Disordered Eating and Body Image
Let go of the diet mentality and feel comfortable in your own skin
Diet culture teaches us that we should always look a certain way, and manage ourselves through our body shape and size. We’re taught, falsely, that our value as human beings correlates somehow with the number on the scale, the visibility of our pores, or the quickness with which we can “bounce back” after having a baby.
As we work together, I’ll help you to reconnect to your embodied experience, which can offer you a healthy, nourishing, and enjoyable relationship with food, exercise, and your body.
Some of the ways you may experience disordered eating include:
overeating
trying to diet, over and over
food anxiety
feeling like you have to “earn” food through exercise
bingeing and/or purging
obsessing about food
eating great food, but not getting much pleasure out of it
shame about your appearance at work or in social situations
“Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it’s about knowing who you are. It’s about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can’t have it.”
Geneen Roth
I’ve found that an over-emphasis on the way we are “supposed to” look, or the way we are “supposed to” eat, causes us to ignore our embodied experience.
From this disconnected place, we lose access to our true hunger and fullness cues, as well as a full emotional experience. As you learn to reconnect to your body, the benefits are so much more than just healthy eating and a positive body image. Learning to trust your body powers up your ability to make truly healthy decisions and enjoy yourself across all areas of your life.
For clinicians and other professionals
I offer consultation for those addressing body image in their therapy work and organizations who want to create a culture of body positivity. Sliding-scale fees available for non-profit organizations and therapists in community mental health agencies.