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Spring Clean Your Body Image: A St. Louis Dietitian’s Guide to Feeling Better in Your Body

Spring has a way of waking things up. The weather warms, routines shift, and many of us feel a renewed sense of motivation whether that’s getting outside more, cleaning out closets, or resetting habits. But there’s something else that tends to show up this time of...

Food Noise: Why Eating Has Become So Mentally Exhausting

She’s sitting across the table, scrolling through questions saved in her phone, notes she’s collected over weeks, maybe months. Is intermittent fasting a good idea for me? Should I aim for 40 grams of protein in the morning? I mix potato starch, collagen, greens...

Sitting With the Struggle: How to Talk to Our Kids About Body Image

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing someone whose work I’ve long admired on social media: Oona Hanson. She specializes in addressing diet culture and eating disorders, two topics that are so important—and often challenging—to discuss. In this post, I’m...

Are you offering up cruel optimism?

I recently became aware the term “cruel optimism” in a book called: “Stolen Focus” by Johann Hari. Stolen Focus is a book about “Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again.” I love these kinds of books. Although, reader beware,...

Spring Clean Your Body Image: A St. Louis Dietitian’s Guide to Feeling Better in Your Body

Food Noise: Why Eating Has Become So Mentally Exhausting

Sitting With the Struggle: How to Talk to Our Kids About Body Image

Are you offering up cruel optimism?

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