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Anxiety, Depression and the Menstrual Cycle

Have you ever been having a bad day and someone had the audacity to ask you if you were getting your period? As insulting and dismissive as that question may feel there may in fact be some validity to asking it. It turns out that mood disturbances from menstrual cycle related hormonal fluctuations are not […]

Food Anxiety: How Do I Overcome My Food Anxiety?

I began this series on how food anxieties are born and strengthened and addressed how your outlook on food could be cultivating these fears. For some, a little reassurance of the absurdity of certain attitudes towards food can go a long way to weaken these fears. For those lucky ones it’s enough to put them […]

Food Anxiety: Should I Eat This?

Thanks to all of the conflicting information out there about proper nutrition the question ‘what would you like to eat?’ has become loaded, to say the least. It has become so loaded that the intense turmoil following such inquiries has become the subject of many hilarious internet memes. I won’t post any here since […]

Food Anxiety: How the ‘Good Food/Bad Food’ Mentality Could Be Affecting Your Brain

Food Anxiety: How the ‘Good Food/Bad Food’ Mentality Could Be Affecting Your Brain

Food phobias are becoming the norm in the fitness industry. Many times it is what fuels the “dedication” of many athletes who display rigid food restriction year round. It’s not always just a matter of willpower but, in fact, a fear-based avoidance […]