Let It Go

I love to watch my little girls play. They are utterly un-self-conscious. They are fully in all their moments and have yet to become hyper-focused on their looks. The last thing they’re doing when they’re running, playing, or simply standing still is worrying about what they look like. They haven’t developed the habit of sucking…

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On a Binge

If you have a tendency to binge eat, it’s likely you “binge” in other areas of your life. We live in a binge culture. We constantly work and become workaholics. We are bombarded with advertisements that create voids to be filled, which creates shopaholics. We’re stressed to the max and need to release, and so…

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Foundation, Fillers, and Filters

My kids love to take pictures of me when I’m not looking. And it’s horrible. They sometimes go the extra mile and apply some sort of hideous filter to them that makes me look like my face is melting off, and if I’m not careful they’ll post them to their Instagram. But before you accuse…

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You’re the Best

Dietitians work with all different kinds of people with all kinds of issues. They work with patients with diabetes who are in renal failure. They work with patients who have cancer. They focus on patients with severe burns. But none of the people I counsel have life-threatening illnesses or injuries — they’re just trying to…

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