How we relate to our bodies reflects how we’ve been treated and impacts how we relate to others’ bodies.

Healing Your Relationships with Food and Your Body

Dieting and wellness plans aren’t benign.
Judgments about food and bodies aren’t just preferences.
They reflect what you’ve been taught,
About whose bodies are valued and whose are less worthy.

Even when you’re mad about the unfairness of these beliefs ,
Even when you want to change or let go of them ,
Parts of you keep trying to make yourself acceptable 
Or get critical of you when you don’t try.

Parts of you can’t stop criticizing or trying to change because 
It’s feels too risky or overwhelming.

Unburdened Eating can help you get out of this cycle where nothing feels right.

Consultations

Learn more about how to heal your own and your clients’ food and body-related burdens in small group consultations

Workshops & Retreats

Deepen your awareness of and heal the burdens that parts of you carry by joining in community with others.

Book

Reconnect with your innate wisdom about what you and your body need and contribute to collective healing through Unburdened Eating.

Resources

Connect with others committed to eradicating anti-fat and other body-related bias, learn about IFS offerings and therapist directories.

Let’s Help Each Other Unburden

What is Internal Family Systems?

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a non-pathologizing approach to understanding yourself and others. It holds that within each of us are sub-personalities, or parts, that are naturally valuable and help us negotiate life with the help of a core wisdom IFS calls the Self. The Self is an inner healing essence characterized by qualities such as calm, curiosity, compassion, and courage. While the Self is within each of us and cannot be damaged, parts of us inevitably get hurt by stressful or traumatic relationships or events. When this happens, other parts of us are forced to adopt extreme strategies designed to help manage or escape the emotional or physical pain. Focusing on, disconnecting from, and criticizing the body are examples of protective strategies that are common in the dominant culture.