• It was nice to catch up with these fun ladies tonight. I was late to the trivia portion of the night, (which I’m sure is why they lost 😜), but it’s been months since Team PR-Tay has made a (poor) showing. 🎉🙌🎉 #lookatmeihavefriends #😬 #yay
    It was nice to catch up with these fun ladies tonight. I was late to the trivia portion of the night, (which I’m sure is why they lost 😜), but it’s been months since Team PR-Tay has made a (poor) showing. 🎉🙌🎉 #lookatmeihavefriends #😬 #yay
  • The ladies @beauty_redefined say it best below 👊 #Repost ・・・ Promise us you'll work to remember you're not a before OR an after. You are not any descriptor you have to explain your body. You aren't bigger than I was last year or finally fitting into my skinny jeans! YOU aren't captured in a photo - whether you love it or hate it - because you are more than a body. ✖️Pay attention to how you feel when you scroll through “inspirational” images like before and afters posted by companies or people, or when you look through your own old photos. You will likely find that comparing what you looked like when you were thinner or younger to your current state rarely brings genuine joy. You’re left either wishing you’d have loved yourself when you looked “better” or wondering why you’ve “let yourself go. ✖️And the reverse is also true: Comparing what you looked like when you were heavier or less muscular or curvy to your current state rarely brings joy. Because you’ll likely take inventory of the things you still need to improve, or compare yourself to someone else’s photos and come up short. And what if your “after” looks like someone else’s supposedly depressing and unfortunate “before”?! That happens ALL THE TIME! ✖️Before and after photos also tend to reinforce the assumption that the way a body looks determines if it is healthy or not. The look of your body really does *not* always illustrate balanced eating and fitness in the ways #beforeandafter photos glorify and promise – it’s just not the way our bodies work. Many people run marathons, complete triathlons, have healthy, balanced eating habits, and cardiovascular health — and STILL don’t have a body you would ever see in a fitness magazine or a typical “after” photo. Alternatively, lots of people go to unhealthy extremes like disordered eating, over-exercising, using unsafe diet pills, steroids, and cosmetic surgery to achieve the look of health and then appear as “after” bodies in ads and posts. Don't forget these photos are SO easily manipulated! ✖️Let's stop thinking of ourselves and our progress in terms of how it appears to others. Let's focus on improving how we feel and what our bodies can do! 👊🏼
    The ladies @beauty_redefined say it best below 👊 #Repost ・・・ Promise us you'll work to remember you're not a before OR an after. You are not any descriptor you have to explain your body. You aren't bigger than I was last year or finally fitting into my skinny jeans! YOU aren't captured in a photo - whether you love it or hate it - because you are more than a body. ✖️Pay attention to how you feel when you scroll through “inspirational” images like before and afters posted by companies or people, or when you look through your own old photos. You will likely find that comparing what you looked like when you were thinner or younger to your current state rarely brings genuine joy. You’re left either wishing you’d have loved yourself when you looked “better” or wondering why you’ve “let yourself go. ✖️And the reverse is also true: Comparing what you looked like when you were heavier or less muscular or curvy to your current state rarely brings joy. Because you’ll likely take inventory of the things you still need to improve, or compare yourself to someone else’s photos and come up short. And what if your “after” looks like someone else’s supposedly depressing and unfortunate “before”?! That happens ALL THE TIME! ✖️Before and after photos also tend to reinforce the assumption that the way a body looks determines if it is healthy or not. The look of your body really does *not* always illustrate balanced eating and fitness in the ways #beforeandafter photos glorify and promise – it’s just not the way our bodies work. Many people run marathons, complete triathlons, have healthy, balanced eating habits, and cardiovascular health — and STILL don’t have a body you would ever see in a fitness magazine or a typical “after” photo. Alternatively, lots of people go to unhealthy extremes like disordered eating, over-exercising, using unsafe diet pills, steroids, and cosmetic surgery to achieve the look of health and then appear as “after” bodies in ads and posts. Don't forget these photos are SO easily manipulated! ✖️Let's stop thinking of ourselves and our progress in terms of how it appears to others. Let's focus on improving how we feel and what our bodies can do! 👊🏼
  • I love this account. 👌 It’s fascinating how eating disorders can hijack whole lives and life plans... #Repost @meandmyed.art gives a great illustration and description below: ・・・ Have you ever found yourself spending hours on end scrolling through pictures of food? Do you have a collection of recipes that you keep in your room to read through at night? Are you losing sleep because your night time routine consists of watching cake baking videos, or ‘man vs food’? You’re not alone. . There’s a reason why food obsession is so common in EDs. You see, when the brain is starved, it gets angry. We flip into caveman mode and become ruled by one of our most basic instincts; to search out food and eat it. There have been scientific studies that prove that when a person is hungry, they are more likely to think about food. Despite our fears of food with our EDs, we’re still driven to eat. We OBSESS over food. Our lives are ruled by calorie contents, ingredients, macros, when we’ll eat, what we’ll eat, what we’ll allow ourselves to eat, and what we won’t. In an attempt to control our lives, we become controlled by food, because at the end of the day we are only human, and our bodies and brains NEED food. . This goes hand in hand with the stereotype that people with EDs get to live their lives free of food. No more wasted energy cooking, or hours eating a meal. You now have full control over what goes into your body and a load of spare time too... Oh if it were only that simple 😅 . It’s important to note too that food obsession happens across all Eating Disorders and might present with higher intensity in certain individuals. It does decrease as a meal plan is introduced and followed consistently. The brain becomes nourished again and is able to pull itself out of crisis mode; giving you the energy and resources to focus on anything other than food.
    I love this account. 👌 It’s fascinating how eating disorders can hijack whole lives and life plans... #Repost @meandmyed.art gives a great illustration and description below: ・・・ Have you ever found yourself spending hours on end scrolling through pictures of food? Do you have a collection of recipes that you keep in your room to read through at night? Are you losing sleep because your night time routine consists of watching cake baking videos, or ‘man vs food’? You’re not alone. . There’s a reason why food obsession is so common in EDs. You see, when the brain is starved, it gets angry. We flip into caveman mode and become ruled by one of our most basic instincts; to search out food and eat it. There have been scientific studies that prove that when a person is hungry, they are more likely to think about food. Despite our fears of food with our EDs, we’re still driven to eat. We OBSESS over food. Our lives are ruled by calorie contents, ingredients, macros, when we’ll eat, what we’ll eat, what we’ll allow ourselves to eat, and what we won’t. In an attempt to control our lives, we become controlled by food, because at the end of the day we are only human, and our bodies and brains NEED food. . This goes hand in hand with the stereotype that people with EDs get to live their lives free of food. No more wasted energy cooking, or hours eating a meal. You now have full control over what goes into your body and a load of spare time too... Oh if it were only that simple 😅 . It’s important to note too that food obsession happens across all Eating Disorders and might present with higher intensity in certain individuals. It does decrease as a meal plan is introduced and followed consistently. The brain becomes nourished again and is able to pull itself out of crisis mode; giving you the energy and resources to focus on anything other than food.
  • Motherhood is complicated. I’m not a mother myself, but I know and love many who are mothers and many without mothers, for various reasons. #Repost @laurenminearlcsw ・・・ #Repost @benourishedpdx ・・・ ❤️
    Motherhood is complicated. I’m not a mother myself, but I know and love many who are mothers and many without mothers, for various reasons. #Repost @laurenminearlcsw ・・・ #Repost @benourishedpdx ・・・ ❤️
  • I *just* had a conversation with a coaching client this morning along these lines. She’s making fantastic progress seeing through the B.S. of diet culture that is everywhere. She commented on how much the quality of her life has improved since we began working together months ago! 🙏🎉🙂And that is why I still coach a few clients. I love seeing people escape from diet and body obsession and/or dissatisfaction. 🙌 #Repost narrative below from the fab @jennifer_rollin ・・・ Work to set boundaries and also have some compassion for those who are still stuck in diet culture.* * Being trapped by food rules and body hate might bring temporary “highs,” but it’s ultimately a miserable place to be.* * Freedom is possible, and so worth it 🙌🏻
    I *just* had a conversation with a coaching client this morning along these lines. She’s making fantastic progress seeing through the B.S. of diet culture that is everywhere. She commented on how much the quality of her life has improved since we began working together months ago! 🙏🎉🙂And that is why I still coach a few clients. I love seeing people escape from diet and body obsession and/or dissatisfaction. 🙌 #Repost narrative below from the fab @jennifer_rollin ・・・ Work to set boundaries and also have some compassion for those who are still stuck in diet culture.* * Being trapped by food rules and body hate might bring temporary “highs,” but it’s ultimately a miserable place to be.* * Freedom is possible, and so worth it 🙌🏻
  • And it’s possible for EVERY DAY to be “no diet day!” 🎉🎊🎉 (which is NOT synonymous with “disregard your wellbeing with binge eating day”, which is, unfortunately, a common misconception that happens due to diet culture’s problematic dichotomous all-or-nothing, good/bad conditioning.) #Repost @thebodypositive ・・・ May 6th is International No Diet Day! Diets are evil. They make us sad, they confuse our bodies, they are precursors to eating disorders for many, and they are responsible for feelings of shame, guilt, fear, and isolation. They do not lead to long term healthy eating habits but instead lead to feelings of deprivation which often cause an unnatural preoccupation with food, bingeing, and extreme restriction. SCREW DIETS. Are you on the no diet bandwagon yet? If so, what inspired you to take plunge? If not...today would be a great day to say EFF YOU, DIETS! #internationalnodietday #internationalnodietday2018 #riotsnotdiets #losehatenotweight #fuckfatphobia #fatandfree #nodiets #healthateverysize #haes
    And it’s possible for EVERY DAY to be “no diet day!” 🎉🎊🎉 (which is NOT synonymous with “disregard your wellbeing with binge eating day”, which is, unfortunately, a common misconception that happens due to diet culture’s problematic dichotomous all-or-nothing, good/bad conditioning.) #Repost @thebodypositive ・・・ May 6th is International No Diet Day! Diets are evil. They make us sad, they confuse our bodies, they are precursors to eating disorders for many, and they are responsible for feelings of shame, guilt, fear, and isolation. They do not lead to long term healthy eating habits but instead lead to feelings of deprivation which often cause an unnatural preoccupation with food, bingeing, and extreme restriction. SCREW DIETS. Are you on the no diet bandwagon yet? If so, what inspired you to take plunge? If not...today would be a great day to say EFF YOU, DIETS! #internationalnodietday #internationalnodietday2018 #riotsnotdiets #losehatenotweight #fuckfatphobia #fatandfree #nodiets #healthateverysize #haes
  • This took a long time for me to learn. #Repost @drcolleenreichmann ・・・ Maybe it’s because I work at a college, and it’s finals season-😬 . Or maybe it’s just because our society is obsessed with harder-better-faster- . But it seems like a lot of us are getting “not taking care of ourselves” mixed up with “being better than other people.” . Fact: you are not superior because you didn’t make time to eat lunch today. Running on that injury doesn’t prove strength. Three hours of sleep last night doesn’t mean you are higher functioning than the person who got eight. . Let’s work to challenge whatever drive (whether it’s an inner critic or an ED voice) that suggests pain = worth. There is no glory in overdoing it or harming ourselves. . You are human and NEED lots and lots of sleep, food, rest, play, silliness, and downtime-taking care of those needs is the TRULY admirable thing to do❤️
    This took a long time for me to learn. #Repost @drcolleenreichmann ・・・ Maybe it’s because I work at a college, and it’s finals season-😬 . Or maybe it’s just because our society is obsessed with harder-better-faster- . But it seems like a lot of us are getting “not taking care of ourselves” mixed up with “being better than other people.” . Fact: you are not superior because you didn’t make time to eat lunch today. Running on that injury doesn’t prove strength. Three hours of sleep last night doesn’t mean you are higher functioning than the person who got eight. . Let’s work to challenge whatever drive (whether it’s an inner critic or an ED voice) that suggests pain = worth. There is no glory in overdoing it or harming ourselves. . You are human and NEED lots and lots of sleep, food, rest, play, silliness, and downtime-taking care of those needs is the TRULY admirable thing to do❤️
  • This. #Repost @stopfitspiration ・・・ We love this post via @asteyafitness! . ✨Focusing on the external with never heal the internal✨
    This. #Repost @stopfitspiration ・・・ We love this post via @asteyafitness! . ✨Focusing on the external with never heal the internal✨
  • I love my job with CASA of Rock County! Today was Wear Blue Day for Child Abuse Prevention month. #CASAWearsBlueDayWI #IAmForTheChild
    I love my job with CASA of Rock County! Today was Wear Blue Day for Child Abuse Prevention month. #CASAWearsBlueDayWI #IAmForTheChild