The Journal
Reflections from my (therapy) couch
Thoughts on food, the nervous system, parts work, and slowly coming home to yourself.
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Can You Lose Weight While Healing Your Relationship With Food?
Can you pursue weight loss while healing your relationship with food? Why wanting body change isn’t the problem, and how to tell supportive structure from restriction.
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Why Can’t I Stop Binge Eating Even When I Know Better?
Why do you binge even when you know better? Learn why binge urges can become whole-body states, why insight isn’t always enough, and how to create more choice around food.
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What Is Nervous System Regulation? Why It Doesn't Mean Being Calm
What is nervous system regulation? Learn why regulation isn’t about staying calm, what capacity and the window of tolerance mean, and how regulation affects food and body image.
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What Is Parts Work? Why Part of You Wants to Heal and Part Doesn't
What is parts work? Learn why different parts of you can want opposite things, how protective parts develop, and how parts work can help with food, body image and healing.
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What Is Somatic Therapy? How Trauma Gets Stuck in the Body
Somatic therapy isn't just breathing exercises or naming where you feel a feeling. Here's what it actually means when trauma gets "stuck" in the body, and how the work can help it finish what it started.
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Signs of Trauma in the Body (Even When Nothing "Bad" Happened)
Trauma isn't only the big, obvious moments. Learn the signs of trauma in the body, and why food and body patterns might be protection, not flaws.
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Polyvagal Theory and Emotional Eating: Why Your Relationship With Food Keeps Changing
Why does your relationship with food change day to day? Polyvagal theory and emotional eating explains what's really happening in your body.
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Your Nervous System Is a Protection System — Here's What That Actually Means
Learn how your nervous system protects you, why stress can change hunger, cravings and eating patterns, and what nervous system regulation actually means.
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Window of Tolerance: Why Food Feels Harder When You're Overwhelmed
Learn what the window of tolerance means, how overwhelm can affect emotional eating and body image, and how building capacity creates more choice.
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Why Healing Your Relationship With Food Requires More Than Listening To Your Body
One of the most common pieces of advice in the eating disorder and intuitive eating world is: "Just listen to your body." And while I understand why people say it, I think it misses something important.
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