Are GLP-1s a Gateway to Diet Culture—or Freedom From It?
Are weight loss injections like Ozempic helping you reclaim peace with food—or pulling you back into the grip of diet culture? Maybe… both. In this post, I explore the complex and often contradictory experiences people have with GLP-1s: the relief of reduced food obsession, the pressure of thinness ideals, and how to navigate this path with curiosity, not shame. There’s no one-size-fits-all answer—but there is space for nuance, self-compassion, and making choices that align with your values.
Weight Loss Injections and Mental Health: What Therapists Want You to Know
Weight loss injections like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy are changing bodies—but what about minds? As a therapist specialising in eating disorders and body image, I’ve seen how these medications can stir up complicated emotions around food, identity, and self-worth. In this post, I explore the often-overlooked mental health side of GLP-1s—and how to find your footing when the physical changes come with emotional ripple effects.
Breaking Up with Diet Culture: Embrace Your Body with Self-Love and Acceptance
It's time to break up with diet culture and embrace the body you have right now. In this post, we'll explore how to reject harmful dieting beliefs and start loving yourself as you are. Ready to take the next step? Our Body Image Course offers the guidance and support you need to cultivate self-compassion and a healthier relationship with your body.
Letting Go of Diet Culture: Embrace True Wellness with New Year’s Resolutions
This New Year, make a transformative resolution to let go of diet culture and embrace a path to true wellness. Discover how to shift your focus from restrictive diets to intuitive eating, self-care, and body positivity. With practical tips for celebrating your body’s strengths and setting compassionate goals, you’ll be ready to start the year with a renewed sense of empowerment and self-love. Ready to dive deeper? Explore our comprehensive Course Library to find the tools and support you need for a fulfilling and body-positive year ahead.
Does body positivity promote obesity?
Short answer: no, it promotes radical self-acceptance over self-loathing. It promotes a kinder society over a culture rife with appearance-based bullying and body shaming and it promotes physical and psychological recovery from dieting and disordered eating. Here's why:
How Body Positivity Enabled Me To Recover from Disordered Eating
Here’s how the discovering Body Positive community helped put me on the path to recovery from a lifetime of disordered eating…
6 Steps to Ditching Diets Forever: Make Peace With Food, Exercise & Your Body
Here are the six steps you need to take in order to recover from a lifetime of dieting and disordered eating. Be sure to download the free guides!
Why is Mindset Important for Health?
When it comes to our health and fitness, our mindsets (i.e. our attitudes, beliefs and assumptions) are often the hardest part of us to change. Mindset matters because it affects the relationship you have between food, exercise and your body. In this blog post we look at the difference between a dieting mindset and a healthy mindset.