Welcome to the pregnancy honeymoon-phase – the second trimester! You have made it through the first trimester, you are feeling way better (hopefully) and you have finally told your loved ones that you’re expecting! It’s an exciting time. If you have checked out my First Trimester Survival Kit article, you’ll know that my first trimester felt pretty rough. I promise that you’ll forget how bad it was in just a few weeks ;) In this Blog post, I am sharing the products and habits[...]
Congratulations, you are pregnant! It’s an exciting time for many, and it also comes with a lot of symptoms and side effects that no one really told you about. Or, people told you, but you didn’t imagine it to be this bad. Until you find yourself hanging over the toilet seat multiple times a day and eating nothing but ginger candy and toast, because everything else sounds awful. If you’re currently in the first trimester, I promise that it gets better (or, you know, the[...]
Before I dive into my own experience and what helped me cope, let’s start with the symptoms of prenatal anxiety and depression, so that you can see if any of them sound familiar (source) What are some signs of depression and anxiety? Women with depression or anxiety around pregnancy tell us that they feel: Extremely sad or angry without warningFoggy or have trouble completing tasks"Robotic," like they are just going through the motionsVery anxious around the baby and their oth[...]
Caroline Dooner is a full-time writer on the subject of food obsession + how to heal from it. In this episode, we are talking about why our bodies rebel against diets.
Welcome to Own it Babe, a podcast about an unconventional approach to health that isn’t about counting calories and killing yourself in the gym, but rather an approach to food that is rooted in intuitive eating, food freedom, and body acceptance. This episode is based around questions I get a TON from students in my online course as well as my lovely followers on Instagram that slide into my DMs. It’s a question along the lines of “I’ve been trying to eat intuitively and felt[...]
It’s no news that we feel crappy when we compare our lives to other people’s lives on social media. I feel like a lot of people are talking about this and preaching to not compare ourselves. Personally, I know on a rational level that I should stop comparing myself. Yet, I've had a hard time putting it into practice until I actually understood comparison on social media on a much deeper level. In this episode, I am diving deeper into what it actually means to compare ourselves,[...]
In this episode, eating disorder survivor Emily Meador and her husband Cody share her recovery story and how it impacted their relationship.
In this episode we are digging into negative self-talk. People pleasing. Feeling crushed if people criticize us or don’t approve of us + how to break out of it.
3 tips to navigate intuitive eating despite the weight gain, so you are not tempted to go back to dieting and restriction.
I often get asked if I still have a workout routine after having recovered from exercise addiction and my eating disorder. I haven’t addressed this on Instagram, but I wanted to share with you why I chose not to exercise at all for a long time.