Category: Community
Food Culture is for Kids
by Coach Leslie
Connecting children to their food culture is an essential aspect of fostering a strong sense of identity, belonging, and understanding of their heritage. In today’s globalized world, it is more important than ever to preserve and celebrate our diverse food traditions. In this blog post, we’ll explore the benefits of teaching children about cultural foods and offer practical tips for making it an enjoyable … Read More Food Culture is for Kids
Food Freedom: Worth the Fight
by Coach Leslie
Caring for oneself shouldn’t be hard. Yet, if you’ve ever experienced restrictive dieting or the hang-ups of trying to conform to predetermined beauty standards that society has dictated, it can feel borderline impossible. But let me tell you something: You deserve better and food freedom is worth fighting for! As someone who’s been through a roller coaster journey filled with anti-diet concepts, healthy lifestyle … Read More Food Freedom: Worth the Fight
My Life Changing Lesson about Going Solo
by Coach Leslie
Teacher of the Year Goes to 2022 This year was a doozy. It was the first year that I was a full-time entrepreneur as a holistic ED recovery coach and making that move on the heels of the slow-exiting COVID-19 pandemic (like–move on already and stop holding the door open!!) was scary and exciting. I figured it would be slow going and slow growing, … Read More My Life Changing Lesson about Going Solo
Holidaze: Surviving When in ED Recovery
by Coach Leslie
Tips to Manage the Season NOW! While the holidays can be a time of joy, connection, and memory-making, when you are recovering from an eating disorder, they can also be a time of stress, anxiety, and possibly fear. During the early years of my recovery, I was in the closet with my family about my treatment. I wish I could tell you why. I … Read More Holidaze: Surviving When in ED Recovery
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Team up to Win!
by Coach Leslie
As a mom and movement coach, I am an advocate of team sports for my girls. They are very different personalities and ages (21 and 9), and differently-abled (the 21-year-old is a typically abled person and the little one has down syndrome), but there have always been team activities they both participate in and enjoy. I am no less an advocate for my clients … Read More Team up to Win!
The Truth About Harmless Lies and Your Health
by Coach Leslie
To tell the truth 100% of the time may seem possible at first glance. But what about those little lies that are common in daily life? Like the ones we tell to protect someone’s feelings, or not revealing the real reason we ran 5 minutes to work. My personal favorite is now a reel on Instagram: your precious kid hands you a drawing that … Read More The Truth About Harmless Lies and Your Health
How My Honduran Spouse Helped Me Honor My Blackness
by Coach Leslie
You know, I never really thought my Blackness. I mean, it is one thing that is with me wherever I go. It is immutable. I have always been proud of my cultural heritage as far as I knew it. Most of my cultural identity was largely influenced by family traditions and our oral history. At some point you realize that part of being Black … Read More How My Honduran Spouse Helped Me Honor My Blackness
Add Activism to Your Life
by Coach Leslie
Do Your Beliefs and Actions Align? On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks taught the world a valuable lesson: we can fight for our beliefs by not tolerating everyday acts of injustice and oppression. If you look into her life, like those of other Civil Rights Leaders then and now, then you may understand the motivations and frustrations that prompted her civil disobedience. To summarize, but … Read More Add Activism to Your Life
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Holiday Survival for Disordered Eaters*
by Coach Leslie
*When you are in recovery or trying to eat for wellness This time of year, advertisements of snowy streets and families coming together laughing eating, and making merry abound. Presents being handed back and forth, faces of pure delight, and picture-perfect families and friends greeting each other with joy and true happiness. There are also just as many campaigns with thin, fit, people dashing … Read More Holiday Survival for Disordered Eaters*
What Are You Hungry For?
by Coach Leslie
Eating That Doesn’t Satisfy Many suffer from what is known as emotional or binge eating. They differ in specific triggers or how they became habit, but the commonalities in them make it possible to take them together here in this post. In these conditions food is eaten for soothing, pleasure, or as a distraction from uncomfortable feelings or situations instead of for sustenance as … Read More What Are You Hungry For?
Mindfulness & Gratitude: Natural Health Boosters
by Coach Leslie
Mindful Eating is Mindfulness As a Food Relationship expert, I use mindful eating as a tool or skill to help break through beliefs and blocks surrounding our relationships with food and our bodies. But as mindful eating is just an extension of mindfulness, flexing in that area primes you for all mindfulness practices–especially gratitude practices. Mindfulness is the practice of purposely focusing your attention … Read More Mindfulness & Gratitude: Natural Health Boosters
All Heroes Have an Origin Story
by Coach Leslie
In the Beginning I was working in non-profit management and asked for a raise. They said no. I gave my notice. I had a month to figure out how I was going to take my side hustle to a full time business. The next few weeks I spent convincing myself I was not crazy so I got a business coach and promised my husband … Read More All Heroes Have an Origin Story
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