Can Comfort Food Be Healthy?

Diet culture is so pervasive in our society that many believe a meal must be overly restrictive, exclude certain food groups, and, often enough, lack flavor and satisfaction in order to be considered ‘healthy’. These sentiments seem to expand and become somehow even...

National Eating Disorder Awareness Week

Next week (Feb 24-Mar 1) is National Eating Disorders Awareness (#NEDAwareness) Week. NEDA week is a movement to raise awareness and support for those affected by eating disorders.  Eating disorders are a serious but treatable mental illness that can affect people of...

Eating Disorders & Disordered Eating What's the Difference?

It’s hard to have a good relationship with food in a world where diet culture is so loud. At a young age we learn that food choices often come with judgement and we learn to not trust our bodies 1. Disordered eating can be difficult to identify when the cultural...