Love, Your Body

After over a decade of living entrenched in diet culture and mentality, I have both heard and engaged in diet talk more years of my life than not. Not only was it potentially triggering to those around me who I wasn't aware were struggling with their own recovery, but it didn't do anything to improve my own health, or relationship to food, eating, or my body image. Now as a binge and diet recovery coach, there is rarely a session I have where a client of mine isn't struggling with a comment made by a friend (often well-meaning), coworker, partner, or family member. The truth is, as a society we are holding onto a LOT of body image trauma, and that often trickles into comments we make daily about our own bodies, others' bodies, food, exercise, and much more that I will dive into in this guide. This guide isn't meant to be preachy, demand-y, judgmental or passive-aggressive. As an educational document, the goal of this guide is to share best practices from those of us who have struggled or are currently w