The reason thinness is becoming more extreme
It's not just the GLP-1s. They collided with a culture that was already blurring the lines between beauty, health, and endless optimization.
Almost Sated
Real conversations and personal stories to help midlife women redefine health beyond diets and restriction, navigate perimenopause, and find liberation through radical self-love.
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July recap: The place that made us rethink our next chapter
Our summer trip through New York and Quebec changed the conversation about where, and how, we want to live.
The whales don't care how fat you are
I went to Quebec hoping to see whales. I came home with a new perspective on body image, self-preoccupation, and the power of awe.
Why I never know how I'm going to feel in my body until I get there
Travel has a way of bringing body image back. Here's what four years of intuitive eating taught me about comparison, place, and recovery.
June in the rearview
The stories that stayed with me, plus a look at what's ahead.
The Sephora employee who tried to save me
All I wanted was a tinted sunscreen that could stand up to Texas in summer and, perhaps, a little mountain biking.
Too fat, too thin, too old, too sexy
What the SI Swimsuit Runway Show reveals about our beliefs around beauty, aging, and women’s bodies.
The divine pleasure of not waiting
How many of us are postponing our lives while trying to become more worthy of living them?
You do not fit in this space
On fat-shaming hotel robes, chasing Catskill waterfalls, and the radical act of loving the body you hiked in.
What I wore on repeat in Grenada
What I wore on repeat in Grenada and an update on my Rent the Runway experience.
The uncomfortable silence
After you share too much.
My husband went to fat camp, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt*
I’ve had the line for this piece in my head for months, years probably, if I’m being honest, as my husband has been grappling over whether to go back to fitness camp, what I have lovingly dubbed fat camp.
On body ownership and degrees of fatness
Adult Braces, thin privilege, passing and naming a body that doesn’t quite fit.
The most body-positive place I've ever visited
I just got back from Grenada, and it changed how I experienced my body.
Love and change, going gray, gaining weight
On marriage, midlife body changes, and learning to trust my body.
Reclaiming body trust in midlife - a conversation with Deb Benfield
The registered dietitian and author of 'Unapologetic Aging' talks midlife body changes, the pressure to fight aging, and why diet culture makes recovery harder.
Have we turned a corner with GLP-1s?
As the conversation shifts, the first wave of eating disorder concerns is beginning to surface.
On masking, musical theater, and belonging
What a late-autism diagnosis reveals about performing in spaces that don't quite make sense.
Shrinking, aging, and honoring the 8-year-old within
This winter, I almost wavered after three years of saying no to diets.
Gangs of wine moms just might save America
But it requires us to stop shrinking, in every sense of the word.