Brave Awakening, LLC

10/07/2024

Dear fellow therapist, the work you’re doing is incredibly important and deeply meaningful. It is also exhausting. We were never meant to do it alone. Let’s connect with each other and make sure that you have an intentional space and time that’s dedicated to your needs.

09/24/2024

We can’t ignore it. It’s everywhere we live. In our homes, in our schools, in our doctors’ offices.

Ways you can help:

🙌 raise your own awareness

🗣️ change the way you speak about bodies, health, food, and movement

👂👁️ be on the lookout for bias and discrimination in your community. If you see something, say something.

07/31/2024

07/31/2024

New group starting this September!

06/12/2024

Look, I’ll be the 🙋🏼‍♀️ to say parenting is f$& hard, so I’m not out here trying to shame anyone for doing their GD best

AND

I know we all love our kids so freaking much that if there’s something we could be doing a little better to make sure they’re developing in a healthy way, we want to know!

So…

One thing I know a little bit about, is the harmful effects of diet culture. The reality is, it’s a breading ground for insecurity on the mild end and eating disorders at its most severe.

is everywhere we look. This weekend I took my 4yo to a birthday party and overheard every comment in this post. And I know these parents love their kids! They think they’re protecting them from unhealthy foods and teaching them

The problem is that diet rules have led us astray. (For more on this check out my blog posts in my linktr.ee)

The long and short: know that labeling food as “healthy” or “unhealthy” or “good for you” vs. “bad for you” sets up a tone of morality and rules around eating that becomes the basis of food guilt. It can also make food and bodies a place to exercise control. And for kids who already have so little control over their lives, creating a power struggle around food can lead to a lifelong struggle with eating.

So my one piece of advice for today: serve all the food at once (yes, even the gummy snacks) and 🤐 no comments or instructions necessary!

Step back, enjoy your own lunch, and relax 🤙

06/12/2024

New blog post on working through food guilt is up! 🍕🍔🧁

May we satisfy our hunger and nourish our bodies with ease 🙏

Diet culture locates the “problem of fatness” within us, as if each of us are helpless to our hedonistic, pleasure-seeking instincts that will lead us astray from the moral imperative to be, and stay, thin.   Diet culture then prescribes a seemingly unending, and at times contradictory,

06/02/2024

Circa 1990



Worldwide, over 70 million people are estimated to be affected by an eating disorder, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and otherwise specified feeding eating disorders (OSFED)

Eating disorders have the SECOND HIGHEST MORTALITY RATE of any psychiatric illness.

Eating Disorders affect people of all genders, sexual orientations, ages, socioeconomic class, abilities, races, and ethnic backgrounds. It is time to take action.

Good news! When treated EARLY and correctly, eating disorders have the highest and fastest recovery rate!

My oldest daughter just turned 4 this weekend. The same age I was in this photo. My reason is us. All of us. We can do more to educate and support each other to prevent ED and improve recovery.

05/29/2024

🙏 Join me TOMORROW for a Live guided meditation!

No matter what form of caregiving you are doing, whether as a parent, a medical professional, or a therapist (just to name a few) your work is necessary, meaningful, and self-depleting. Let's get together for a mid-day pause to get embodied and offer ourselves the compassion and loving-kindness we a...

05/24/2024

New blog is up!

The research is in, diets don’t work! While the precise percentage is debated, the data tells us that by 1 year, most people who’ve started on any of the 12 best known diets (think Atkins, Keto, South Beach, etc.) regain the weight and lose cardiovascular health improvements [1] . Despite bei

05/09/2024

New blog post is up!

May you be safe, happy, healthy, and at ease with your body this summer 🙏

Here we go again! The sun is out, the weather is warming up, and the layers are coming off. The pressure to get “beach body ready” has already begun. Posts on Instagram and TikTok with are hitting your FYP. The focus on body image and diet culture during this...

04/30/2024

Join me for a FREE webinar covering a range of ED 101 topics, including crucial questions to ask during intake assessments, transdiagnostic treatment approaches, unpacking weight stigma and more!

I keep this training interactive and self-reflective.

Stay tuned for CE info!

To register, email or visit my website at www.braveawakening.com/workshop