The Permission Slip For Pregnancy

I am a 32 year old female, raised in the millennial generation. This means I should be eligible for compensation from damages received by being subjected to shows such as America’s Next Top Model, The Biggest Loser, and pretty much every single MTV music video ever created in the 90’s and 00’s while I was […]

No Diet Day: Free to be me (you)

No Diet Day was started by Mary Evans Young in 1992 and is an annual movement to reject diet culture. NEDA would like to encourage you to consider the impact diet culture has on your relationship with your body and join the movement to practice body kindness and acceptance. It’s common to hear someone commenting […]

The Dangers of Diet Culture

Growing up in the early 2000’s, diet culture was a major part of my life, and played a significant role in the development of my first eating disorder. I still remember when I was little going to weight loss  meetings and consults with my mom. For pretty much all of my childhood she was on […]

Diet Culture Domino

You came into this world A beautiful being How amazing! Only one of you Only one of me Mama wonders about your personality No thoughts of a child hating their body As you grow up, messages pop up on the tv Photoshopped images fill your phone screen The noise gets louder You used to love […]

Big Questions in Small Moments

Breathe in the unapologetic atmosphere that’s embraced you from the moment you breathed out into the cosmos. Before you strive to make yourself smaller, before you fight to disappear… Who can demand that you do so? Who can declare that you are too much? That you are not beautiful, powerful and perfect just as you […]

Dear Diet, I’m Done and It’s Over

How young were you when you first dieted? I was a very young 12 years old when I first jumped on the diet train, and I rode that train one way or another for ten years of my life. For the entirety of my adolescence and beginning of my young adult life, I wanted to […]