12/03/2025
I have a confession 👇🏻
I struggled with my body image + disordered eating for most of my life up until about 6 years ago 💕
As a child, I had what people called “baby fat” most of public school. From Grade 8 onward, I remember being teased for having a “big butt” (which—ironically—wasn’t desirable back then) 👎🏻
That teasing made me hyper-aware of my body long before I even understood what body image was.
I started watching what I ate.
Counting calories.
Trying to shrink myself.
Then came the obsession with being thin—even though my natural build has always been athletic. I fought my own genetics and punished myself for a body that was never meant to be “tiny” (come on, I am 5’8”)
And because I restricted so much… I also binged.
I used food to soothe. Boxes of cookies. Tubs of ice cream.
To numb.
To fill the emotional spaces I didn’t know how to handle.
I binged to make up for all the restricting — the cycle so many women silently live through, thinking it’s just a “lack of willpower,” when it’s actually trauma meeting biology.
All that for what?
To feel more desirable?
More liked?
More accepted?
Why did that matter so much?
15 years of therapy helped me unravel that.
It helped me understand the roots — the wounds, the beliefs, the pressures — & it also helped me see the same patterns in other women.
Women who want to be “perfect.”
Women who don’t fully love themselves ❤️🩹
Women who think their weight is the main problem… but underneath, it’s so much deeper.
I’m not a therapist.
But I am a woman who lived this.
Who healed this.
Who no longer uses food to cope.
And now I help other women break those same patterns with compassion, strategy, & support.
Because the truth is:
Most weight struggles don’t start in the kitchen.
They start in our stories.
Our upbringing.
Our nervous system.
Our beliefs about worth, acceptance, and love.
And when you heal those, everything else shifts:
Your body.
Your habits.
Your confidence.
Your relationship with food.
Your relationship with yourself.
If you’re reading this and thinking, “That’s me”…
You’re not alone 💕
And you’re absolutely capable of rewriting your story — just like I did 💫
