Today’s guest is Danie van Kay, body positive facilitator, health coach and eating disorder intuitive therapy coach. She is an anorexia survivor and she suffers from chronic Lyme Disease, which I didn’t know much about until I chatted with her, so needless to say she is working hard to raise awareness for chronic invisible illnesses, like Lyme Disease and I am so glad to introduce you to her today. Her story is an inspiring example of resilience, positivity and strength and I[...]
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My eating disorder and exercise addiction gave me a FALSE sense of control, even though it was the other way around. I was letting it control me.
This episode is part of a Q and A series that I have started through my Instagram account @ownitbabe and I have picked out 5 questions to answer today: 1. How do you get rid of the black-and-white mindset around food? 2. How long did it take for your weight to stabilize and what were some helpful steps you took to accept your weight gain and natural body shape? 3. How do you overcome the mentality of having to exercise every day? 4. Do you ever catch yourself thinking “Life wi[...]
Leslie McDonald is the face behind the social media account @balanced_life_leslie. She is a sound healer, reiki practitioner, and certified holistic health coach with a passion for creating community, sharing recipes, and meal prep tips as well as making wellness accessible to everyone. Her work has been featured in Mind Body Green, Thrive Global, Greatist, and Whole30recipes. Trigger warning: Leslie has suffered from some autoimmune conditions and has found eating Paleo to be very benefi[...]
The episode everyone keeps asking me about is finally out!I am interviewing my husband Shaun and we are having a very juicy and honest conversation about body image, diet culture for men, supporting a loved one through an eating disorder, mental health, sex and much more! Some of my favorite topics we covered - The “movie-version” story of how we met and why we didn’t start dating until 18 months later - My rock-bottom moment and eating disorder from his point of view - Men and diet[...]
Self-Love | ˈˌself ˈləv/ | noun Regard for one's own well-being and happiness (considered as a desirable rather than narcissistic characteristic). Self-love often gets confused with being a narcissist. “This person is full of themselves, they are just in love with themselves and think that they are IT. Ugh!” However, this character trait i[...]
Did you know that the word “cellulite” didn’t really appear anywhere until pretty recently? In fact, the word “cellulite” and it’s description made its first appearance in North America when Vogue printed an article about it in the 1960s… Before that, cellulite wasn’t really a global term to describe our skin. These bumps on our skin are a very natural part of our body tissue. Not a “disease” that needs to be cured. Cellulite treatment is very recent and became[...]
When I decided I was done chasing the “perfect body” and dieting myself into the ground, I experienced a period of a few months where I ate upwards of tens of thousands of calories every single day. I would eat carrot cake for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. I felt so defeated and unable to stop. My body had completely taken over and I was on autopilot. Even though my stomach was painfully full, I was still hungry - mentally hungry. My body kept asking for more. This[...]
If I would have seen this body two years ago, I probably would have had a breakdown - that’s how disordered I was. I would have thought that this healthy body was flawed, because it doesn’t look like the body of my then-favourite fitness model. I would have beat myself up, because I was “too weak” to follow my food- and workout plan and “just suck it up”. Today, I look at this body with love and compassion. This body was never supposed to look like the[...]