Hanukkah traditions are about connection, culture, and meaning—not restriction. This blog explores how diet culture pressures people to avoid cultural foods during the holidays, why that messaging is harmful, and how to support eating disorder recovery while honoring tradition.

Step beyond diet culture and rediscover the joy of cooking and eating without rules or guilt. This post explores how to bring pleasure, presence, and self-care back into the kitchen—and how to reconnect with food in a way that supports healing and nourishment.

With the holidays coming up and family events on the calendar, navigating meals can feel overwhelming. This guide offers simple, recovery-focused tips to help you protect your plate and your peace during gatherings with extended family.

Have you ever been on vacation and eaten gluten but didn’t have the same gastrointestinal reaction that you do at home? That’s what we call the travel paradox. Come take a trip to Italy with us as we explore the travel paradox and why it exists.

The Intuitive Eating Principle of Make Peace with Food means allowing yourself unconditional permission to eat. This means allowing yourself to eat anything with no strings attached, trusting your body, and enjoying all foods. We’ll explain what unconditional permission to eat means, and simple steps to start practicing it in your own life.

Halloween is almost here, and trick or treating events have already started. Candy is everywhere this time of year. Some people love the haunts that come with the Halloween season, but for someone in eating disorder recovery, the fear of ever present candy can feel frightening. Read on for tips to navigate Halloween in a way that allows the holiday to be fun without being overwhelming or scary.

Fall brings cozy meals, seasonal treats, and nostalgic traditions, but for those in eating disorder recovery, it can also bring guilt and fear around food. This post explores how to enjoy autumn’s flavors while keeping a balanced recovery mindset. Learn simple ways to rebuild trust with food and find comfort in seasonal favorites without shame.

Game day in eating disorder recovery can feel overwhelming, with food choices and social pressures triggering anxiety. This guide shares tools to enjoy sporting events with confidence while supporting your eating disorder recovery.

For many people in eating disorder recovery, the idea of exercise brings up mixed emotions. On one hand, movement can feel grounding and joyful. On the other, it may have been tangled up with compulsive behaviors, guilt, or pressure in the past. The truth is: exercise can have a place in recovery, but it looks different than diet culture presents. We’ll explore what safe and compassionate approaches to movement can look like as you recover.

Body neutrality in eating disorder recovery is about shifting your focus away from constant appearance-based thoughts and toward respecting your body for what it does. This perspective can be a helpful landing place or a stepping stone to loving your body.

Barbecues can be stressful for someone navigating eating disorder recovery, but there are ways to build confidence and learn to enjoy eating at a barbecue in eating disorder recovery with our tips.

Set point theory is a concept  that explains the body's tendency to maintain a stable weight and physiological state, known as the "set point." This theory suggests that the body has a natural weight range that it strives to maintain, and that attempts to deviate from this range through dieting or other means of food and body manipulation can trigger a range of physiological responses that make it difficult to maintain weight loss or weight gain in the long term.

A common struggle in eating disorder recovery is having trouble with feeling hunger and fullness cues. There are physical and emotional components to this, and ways to become more attuned to your body’s cues.