In late September, in the northern hemisphere, day and night settle into balance. For one moment on the calendar, light and dark hold equal weight. This is the autumn equinox, and for many people it arrives as more than an astronomical event. It arrives as something felt: a shift in the air, a pull inward, a body that suddenly wants …
What Intuitive Eating Principles Look Like When You Live with Chronic Illness
There is a version of the intuitive eating conversation that gets shared in wellness spaces fairly often. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop when you’re full. Make peace with food. It sounds straightforward enough, and for people who are starting from a relatively uncomplicated relationship with eating, those ideas can be a relief from the overwhelming and often contradicting nature of …
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn: Understanding Your Nervous System’s Survival Responses
Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn. These four terms have become part of the mainstream conversation around mental health and healing over the last decade or so, often travelling under the label “trauma responses.” Before going further, I want to pause on that framing. A trauma response is what happens when something in the present triggers a past trauma, activating a …
