29/04/2026
Confession - more than 10 years ago, I was a health journalist deeply working in and co-creating wellness culture. I was writing about protein dos and donâts and feeding your neurotransmitters as the road to true happiness before it was on the mainstream agenda. My audience and my editors-in-chief kept asking for more. And I kept delivering. For me, diet culture also felt like a true discovery, like I was on to something no one else knew about. Looking for those wellness hooks was my job as a health journalist, and I truly believed I was helping others. After all, I was still moving, thinking, and acting on the spell of diet culture - eat this, and something good will happen.
It all started when I interviewed our national soccer teamâs private chef. âWe want to get those nutrients as fast as we can in those athlete bodies.â It was 2014, and his phrase was all I needed to hear to upgrade my wellness game and downgrade my relationship with food, my mental health, and my well-being. Diet culture doesnât get you with rules. It gets to you with a feeling, a promise, and for me, the promise was - eat well, and youâll be strong, approved, worthy.
That promise is why I have been trapped in the wellness world until my first son taught me more about eating than my functional nutrition courses could ever do.
If you want to explore your relationship with food and understand how it shapes the way you feed your child, I invite you to reach out to me or join the pilot of Family Food Waves. Comment with WAVES, and youâll get my current take on food, weight, and wellness in the liberating audio library.
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