Welcome to Wednesday! My scheduled guest for today was Melissa Toler and seeing as we aired on Sunday I wanted to take this opportunity to share a bit with you about my journey, why the language around health and beauty is so damaging in our current culture, and PLEASURE! Pleasure has become a guiding principle in my life. Slowly over the last year I have invited more and more of this elusive creature into my life and contrary to my beliefs, I actually feel like I am more gro

What a joy! I had such a fabulous time today chatting with Melissa about how dieting and diet culture requires us to abandon pieces of ourselves in order to perform or strive for impossible cultural standards of beauty, thinness and health. Melissa is a speaker, writer, and educator. Her work encourages people to make the connection between our culture's oppressive beauty standards and our personal struggle with self-acceptance. She has written extensively on diet culture and

Here I am with the amazing Meg Bradbury from @lamplight.space and www.lamplight.space for E5 of The Hump Day Hiatus. We had such a fantastic chat toady on The Hiatus. It's just so healing to be with folks who love you as you are and trust that you got this. We touch on pleasure, Orthorexia, over exercising, self-loathing, food rules, how healing is so individual and can't be prescribed, and many, many laughs, are all part and parcel of our chat today! How do we come to decide

I am so honoured to have had the opportunity to chat with Dawn Serra yesterday. Her presence alone is such a special thing, never mind get her talking about pleasure, desires, needs, wants, sex... she blows me away and has so much wisdom when it comes to how to find more joy, ease, and pleasure in our bodies. Check out our conversation on how to rediscover, embody, and allow for pleasure (the second of the nine core elements of a Body Trust® practice), and an amazing exercise