Birch Stand Mental Health Services

06/18/2025

03/11/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Reclaiming pleasure in food is an act of resistance against diet culture and the oppressive systems that sustain it. By rejecting rigidity, embracing flexibility, and reconnecting with ourselves, we can rediscover the joy and pleasure that eating was always meant to bring.”

02/25/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Intuitive Eating principles offer a roadmap for [reclaiming pleasure in eating]... rejecting the diet mentality, honouring hunger, making peace with food, and discovering the satisfaction factor.”

02/18/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Diet culture’s obsession with categorizing foods as “good” or “bad” not only distorts our relationship with food but also fuels systemic oppression.”

Home The Aleo Collective is a group of interdisciplinary mental health practitioners who share similar values and approaches to sustainable recovery from eating disorders or disordered eating behaviours. Whether you’re recovering from an eating disorder, questioning whether or not your eating is d...

02/14/2025

Braving Bounce-Back Culture: Exploring Peace in a Postpartum Body

In collaboration with , I will presenting a FREE webinar on Thursday Feb 20th at 12pm Atlantic time, exploring body image concerns in the postpartum period.

This webinar will explore:
▫️ Prevalence of eating disorders in the pregnant and postpartum population
▫️ Diet culture's offspring: "Bounce-back" culture
▫️ Relevant Intuitive Eating principles for navigating postpartum body and eating challenges

Open to anyone in the public, though intended primarily for those pregnant or in the postpartum period.

A video recording of this webinar will be distributed to registrants to watch at their convenience (within 30 days).

02/12/2025

Braving Bounce-Back Culture: Exploring Peace in a Postpartum Body

In collaboration with , I will presenting a FREE webinar on Thursday Feb 20th at 12pm Atlantic time, exploring body image concerns in the postpartum period.

This webinar will explore:
▫️ Prevalence of eating disorders in the pregnant and postpartum population
▫️ Diet culture's offspring: "Bounce-back" culture
▫️ Relevant Intuitive Eating principles for navigating postpartum body and eating challenges

Open to anyone in the public, though intended primarily for those pregnant or in the postpartum period.

A video recording of this webinar will be distributed to registrants to watch at their convenience (within 30 days).

02/11/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Modern diet culture emphasizes individual responsibility, which equates thinness with virtue and fatness as a moral failing [...] this looks like promoting restrictive eating as a marker of self-worth, abstaining or using “caution” with demonized foods, and pathologizing fatness as inherently diseased and wild.”

02/04/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Graham believed that all of America’s moral failings could be traced back to “unholy” ways of eating, which could be cured with a strict diet[...] These practices weren’t merely about health—they were about control and conformity.”

01/28/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Early Protestant Christianity associated bodily pleasure with moral weakness, emphasizing restraint and self-discipline as pathways to spiritual purity.”

01/21/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!

“Historically, religion has long shaped the way we think about food and our bodies[...] These practices [were] about how bodily pleasure was thought to compromise the soul.”

01/14/2025

“Sin, Snacks, and Self-Control: Revelations on the denial of pleasure and reclaiming satisfaction with food” ✝️ 🧁 written by member, Raquel Griffin MSW RSW
Read the full post by visiting AleoCollective.ca ! Or comment “reclaim” below 👇 and we’ll DM you the link!