If you’re anything like me, recent events in this country around human rights have made you question your beliefs and assumptions about freedom more than ever before.

I want to be a better human. Here are some resources I’ve found helpful.

It was all too much.

I was not ok.

So I did the only things I could think of.

If you’ve spent any time with a long-distance hiker, you’ve probably heard these phrases before, but if not, allow me to introduce you to a philosophy that is very effective at providing a sense of comfort and emotional freedom in times of stress and uncertainty.

If you want to love your body, the only thing you need to do is decide you want to love your body more than you want to keep believing the lies.

Most of the women I work with want to feel confident and empowered when it comes to food. In today’s blog, I’m clearing up some common misconceptions about what intuitive eating really is—more specifically, what it isn’t—so you can get more clarity around how you want to feel about food.

There were like 18 things to be grateful for/excited about/proud of in that particular moment in time...not the least of which was that those dimpled thighs had carried me across three states, over dozens of mountain passes, and through hundreds of miles of wilderness.

But, poof! In one painful moment of needless self-judgement, my superhero vanished, washed away by a wave of shame and embarrassment.

We are not meant to do this alone. We are not designed to face everything by ourselves (despite the overarching messages in our culture that say we should just “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” already). We simply didn’t evolve as solitary creatures.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for being part of the Eat Hike Love community…and for choosing you.

Your beauty isn’t the result of the products you purchase or put on—your beauty is innate. And your beauty is only one aspect of your miraculous whole.

I love my body now more than ever because it's SO MUCH EASIER to simply accept what is. It's so much easier to be my own best friend. It's so much easier to trust myself. It's so much easier (and way more fun!) to celebrate the things in life I love without constantly battling fear and judgment.

By the time I was 30, I was bitterly, hopelessly exhausted of the struggle with food and my body. So I hiked the PCT, and then I became a nutritionist. I became the kind of nutritionist who gets it.

I love my body just because! It’s me, it’s mine. It’s an amazing miracle of existence. And it deserves love regardless of what it can do or how it looks in any outfit. Can you show your body the same unconditional love it shows you? Can you love it just because it’s yours?

In this over-busy world we live in, the temptations are greater than ever to eat while you scroll, browse, watch, read, drive...But just eat. Especially if you’re someone who struggles with food, body image, or digestion. Just eat. See what happens for you.

Sometimes people tell me they “motivate” themselves to do better by being really hard on themselves. They say it works. I tried it for years—it never worked for me. The way I see it now, I was in abusive relationship with myself.