Scary foods.   For a long time I listened to diet culture and what they said about certain foods like carbs, white bread, white pasta, white sugar, or ice cream.   And those foods became very scary to me.   I didn’t even think about why these foods aren’t bad, that each one of them...Read More »

Recovery is a mixture of very high ‘highs’ and lows.  It’s a mixture of victories and days when the thoughts all relapse into that old way of thinking.    I can say honestly that it’s not been an easy journey, and especially with some hard things that happened in the last year, I really struggled...Read More »

Kelsey is such a sweet friend.  I’ve had her on the podcast two other times, and they’ve been precious times together.  We’ve talked about how the men in your life can make you feel valuable and Kelsey’s story of recovery from an eating disorder.   But this time we’re talking about an entirely different subject....Read More »

You are valuable because God says so.   That’s sometimes a hard statement to swallow in a world where it feels like we have to find our value in: what we do, the accomplishments, the places we’ve traveled, the friends we have, the page views on our blog, or the amount of figures in our...Read More »

What does health at every size mean?  I know this may sound different especially after we’ve been inundated with diet culture, but can you be healthy at different sizes?  My personal experience is 100% YES!   At 12, I was a different size than I am now; that was before I fell into my eating...Read More »

Disclaimer: Before you read this post and listen to this podcast, I want you to know that I am NOT promoting or saying that the Whole 30 is bad.  I just wanted to share the perspective of a friend and fellow recovered warrior who is going through it right now for her gut and shared...Read More »

I met these two gymnasts,  Bethany and Rachel, close to when I first got into the blogging world.  And what attracted me to them?   Simply put, I saw Jesus in them.  I saw the compassion, the humble boldness, the kindness of Jesus, and the gentleness with which they were salt and light for Jesus...Read More »

Security.   We all want it, right?  We want to be secure, to be safe, to be loved.  We want to know that people aren’t going to abandon us right now, or we hesitate to get into relationships with them.  Who else thinks these things like me?   But in the past 5 years, especially,...Read More »

CrossFit; I used to have a very different perspective of it than I do now.  I used to be a skeptic.  I truly was.   To begin with, my perspective of it was: My Perspective Before CrossFit:    I would watch people do it, and part of me thought, ‘I am NOT strong enough to...Read More »

I told y’all about the weekend where I finally realized that I was eating, and it felt normal.   Well, that’s what I wanted to talk about on this podcast episode.  It was a good feeling.   It wasn’t abnormal anymore.  It wasn’t complicated.    What does normal eating feel like after 10+ years of...Read More »