As you’ve heard in my story, I had the BEST of intentions in my quest to heal my own body image. I tried to do all the “right” things...

Poor Body Image Symptoms: 1. A complicated relationship with food (obsessed and consuming, at worst) 2. Feeling undeserving of goodness...

Imagine this scenario: You wake up in the morning, moving through your usual routine, having a hot tea or coffee, maybe doing a morning...

Okay, right off the bat, I am celebrating. Why? Because it’s my business birthday! Real Food Wellness is celebrating 7 years of...

In 2011, things were looking pretty good in the health arena. My typical day began with hot tea and a freshly blended smoothie. I’d...

Happy New Year! I am feeling so juiced up and ready for the year ahead. Why? A few reasons, really… One, I just had a good deal of down...

This past Saturday was my final workshop for the year, teaching part IV of my Fall series, The Healthy Woman. For a portion of our time...

When it comes to your health or eating habits, what do you pride yourself on? Your dedication to eating locally-sourced foods? Opening...

Here’s some quick food for thought if you dub yourself as an “emotional eater”: Consider that overeating or binge eating can sometimes...

I’m back from Peru for the 2nd time this year. My decision to attend a this most recent workshop (Jungian Psychology & Amazonian...

“I want to feel sexy.” Rarely does a woman come in for a first session listing this as the reason she’s meeting with me. Most initial...

Think “food rules” always means forcing and gripping? Think “permission” always means throwing in the towel and eating large or frequent...

Last weekend, I drove back to my hometown, to throw one of my childhood friends a little baby shower at the house I grew up in. We...

When I was a child I was a SLOWWWW eater. So slow, my brother would often come back into the kitchen to try and help me finish eating so...

Today I am packing up and heading west. My big brother is getting married on Saturday in the gorgeous botanical gardens at U of C...

Here’s a personal share: Not long ago it became abundantly clear that I was getting caught in social media spiral. I was getting into a...

There was a time in my life that I was gripped so tightly by fear around weight gain. Because I cycled through periods of binge eating...

With the warmer weather and the longer days clearly upon us, you may be feeling the excitement and anticipation of all activities unique...

When not made conscious, emotional triggers can sabotage the best of us. We might be going about our day feeling relatively well, then a...

As highly adaptable beings, we’ve learned how to get by in all sorts of different circumstances. For example, in an effort to feel safe...