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05/09/2025

Hey y’all, I’m Kate. And if any of this resonates, I’d love to connect. 💛

05/09/2025

I think that most of the time, body image is the result not of our body, but of our brain. Specifically, of our perspective, or the many factors that contribute to HOW we see something at any given moment.

“Yes, but my body has changed,” I hear you saying. Even when that is true - and that may well be true, because that is what bodies do - notice how still, your feelings towards it are not static. Your distress, though absolutely distressing, waxes and wanes. 🌊

So while, in these moments, it’s easiest and most straightforward to blame our body and direct all of our energy towards changing it, at least part of the work involves asking what else may be going on.

Are you hungry? Are you tired? Are you lonely? Are you feeling vulnerable following the seemingly endless cycle of heartbreaking news footage. Are feeling inadequate following the equally endless barrage of weight loss ads? Are you feeling any number of other feelings that you may not have the time or space or willingness or skills to address in the moment? 💛

If so (and, actually, if not), what would it look like to take a beat? To notice what is happening in your body, what is happening around you, and what you may be making it mean.

Consider what needs may be unmet, and how you might be able to attend to those. Take a breath. Get your self a glass of water. And know that sooner or later, you will feel differently towards whatever it is that has got you in knots – your-equivalent-of-my-table one day, your body another.

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Interested in having more conversations like these with women who get it? Join us this fall for Mind, Body, and Beyond: A Non-Diet Approach to Navigating Midlife with Compassion, Clarity, & Community.

Link in bio for more info. and to register!

05/09/2025

So many women in midlife report feeling tired. Tired tired, for sure. But also tired of the BS! They're tired of:

👉the constant mental energy spent on food rules
👉the exhausting cycle of restriction 🔄 rebellion
👉fighting their changing bodies instead of working with them
👉feeling like failures when diets inevitably fail

What often surprises them is that learning intuitive eating after 40 becomes a gateway to something much larger, a reclamation of their authentic selves during a life stage that’s practically designed for this kind of awakening. ✨

Here’s what I'm coming to learn: midlife isn’t just about shifting hormones, though those are certainly part of the picture. It’s also about a deeper invitation to live more authentically, to honor what truly matters, and to stop outsourcing our decisions to external authorities who’ve never lived in our bodies or our lives.

Want to learn more about this work in a community of folks who get it?

Mind, Body & Beyond is a hybrid support group that offers expert guidance and meaningful connection through the menopause journey — all in a weight-inclusive, non-diet space where you’ll feel seen, heard, and supported.

What You’ll Get:
✅ 6 Live Group Support Sessions
facilitated by a licensed therapist and registered dietitian. Connect with other women who get it.

✅ 6 Self-Paced On-line Lessons
Flexible, thoughtfully designed content you can return to any time — no pressure to "keep up."

✅ Real Talk + Real Tools
We cover the stuff that actually matters — beyond hot flashes and hormone charts.

Link in bio to learn more and register!

And if you register today, you'll get $100 with code BEFOREJULY1 at checkout!

05/09/2025

Strength in numbers! 💪✨💛

05/09/2025

Perimenopause is hard enough without a critical a-hole living in your head. What if you tried a little kindness? 🫶

15/01/2025

Midlife and the menopause transition: they’re big, messy, and a little mysterious, right?

Between the symptoms that are apparently “normal” (but feel anything but) and the stage of life that has many of us flying by the seat of our pants (politics, jobs, raising tweens and teens, oh my!), it’s a lot! But you’re not alone.

We are Britt Richardson of A Full Bite Nutrition and Kate Morris of Among the Trees Counseling and Wellness, and we are working on something special for this stage of life—an offering where we can come together, share, learn, and grow. But first, we need your help.

We’ve put together a quick questionnaire (link in bio!) to hear from you. What’s been surprising? What’s been hard? What do you wish someone would have told you about this season? What do you want to know now?

Your voice is so important, and it will help shape something that truly gets what midlife feels like.

Whatever midlife looks like for you right now—whether it’s the strange marriage of a hot flash and a cold coffee or feeling a little like an emotional snack pack—we want to be here for you. 🫶

31/01/2024

Are you a practitioner looking to learn more about weight stigma? Save your seat at the March 8th session of Taking Care: Practicing with Size Inclusivity and Social Justice!💥

The link to register is in my bio! ⬆️

Taking Care: Practicing with Size Inclusivity and Social Justice, course #5345, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credits. Social workers completing this course receive 2 cultural competence and 1 ethics continuing education credits.

25/01/2024

Diet culture equates hard with healthy.

⚠️It tells you that exercise needs to be sweaty, grueling, and regimented, come hell, highwater, below freezing temperatures, or winter bugs.

⚠️It tells you that eating needs to be premeditated and mechanical and that meal prep is a nonnegotiable, nevermind the fact that you’d rather be sledding with your kids or catching up on the Crown or that you’re so sick of red peppers you can hardly see straight.

⚠️It tells you that on this day whatever-it-is into that shiny new year’s resolution, those of you still holding on by your fingernails to avoid joining the ranks of the already-lapsed are winning, but remain just one missed workout away from a speedy descent into mediocrity.

But you know what else is hard? Doing the things that are good for you in the face of diet culture. Things that diet culture deems lazy or undisciplined or (gasp!) easy.

✨But I see you, refusing to make another weight-based resolution because you remember how it’s gone before, how all-consuming it was to follow and how horrible you felt when you stopped. Your word of the year may be “balance” or “gentleness” or “stillness” or “connection,” and you may be blocking diet ads like your life depends on it. And it probably feels really hard.

✨I see you, settling into a rest day. Turning off your alarm and tolerating the antsiness that ensues. You’ve learned so many unhelpful messages about exercise, and their guilt- and shame-laden barbs are loudest on a rest day. If you tune into the music that you’re listening to as you whip up your favorite boxed brownies, you can almost forget that they’re there. But gracious, it’s hard.

✨I see you, following your meal plan despite the fact that your eating disorder voice is berating you and scaring you, despite the fact that it’s excruciating to eat a snack in the middle of class and that you are almost never hungry. I see you doing everything in your power to hold onto hope that it gets better. It does. But what you’re doing is really hard.

Sometimes the hard thing isn’t what diet culture says is the hard thing.

Whatever your hard is, I see you. You are not alone, and you’re doing a great job. 👏🫶

21/11/2023

Look again! 👀 Got everything?

A commitment to boundaries and bodily autonomy can look like a lot of things at Thanksgiving.

🦃 It can look like calling ahead and setting some expectations for what you would prefer not to talk about.

🦃 It can look like bringing a safe meal that you know, on an ordinary day, your kid(s) would be happy to eat (and understanding that holiday hubbub being what it is, they may still be too overstimulated to do so).

🦃 It can look like not saying a word when your kid grabs another roll or piece of pie.

🦃 And it can look like noticing your own overwhelm and excusing yourself for a moment of peace and some deep breaths in another room.

Lean in, friends. Thanksgiving is a day for food, yes, but it's also, and arguably more, for connection, for relationships.

And in the words of Nedra Glover Tawwab, "People don’t know what you want. It’s your job to make it clear. Clarity saves relationships.” Boundaries save relationships.

So by all means, bring the pie. 🥧

But also bring the boundaries. 💥

21/11/2023

No kidding! The study was aptly titled "Putting Feelings into Words" (Lieberman et al., 2007).

The researchers showed participants photographs of angry or fearful faces. Seeing these photos (even subconsciously!) prompted increased activity in a region of the brain called the amygdala, the processing center for emotions.

Participants were then asked to label the emotion as either anger or fear, and attach a name to the face in the photo. When participants attached a feeling word to a photo, they saw a decreased response in the amygdala. When they attached a name to the photo, they didn't see that reduction.

In Lieberman's words, "In the same way you hit the brake when you're driving when you see a yellow light, when you put feelings into words, you seem to be hitting the brakes on your emotional responses."

This allows the response to move from the amygdala, which is more likely to interpret the emotion as a threat and respond accordingly, to the frontal lobe, which allows you to start thinking about and processing the emotion.

Y'all. This is the magic of therapy. When a feeling lives in our heads, it can take on a life of its own. But when a feeling is spoken, and all the more when it is witnessed and validated, it shifts. It loosens up and slows down. It ceases to be a threat to our rationality and relationships and instead has the opportunity to tell us what it knows. What it needs.

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So cool, right? Above, I've included two versions of a tool - the feelings wheel - that is so helpful with this process: one geared more towards older adolescents and adults, and one for kids. But really, it matters less how you do it and more that you do it.

So, let's give it a go. How are you feeling?

21/11/2023

I was recently invited to join Dr. Ili Rivera Walter on her blog, Family Therapy Basics, to discuss how to address weight stigma, and clients' use of weight loss drugs, in therapy.

If you are a practitioner of any kind, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the article!

You can find it at https://familytherapybasics.com/blog/therapists-address-weight-stigma

21/11/2023

As many of you know, I spent last week on vacation with my family. For a week, I got to swim and explore and play and visit with some of my most favorite humans. And for a week, I shared a house with nine other adults and eleven children, six of whom were five years old or younger.

There was a lot of activity and joy. There was a lot of screaming (the delighted kind, mostly) and silliness and sun. There was not a lot of sleep. There were a lot of wet swimsuits and towels.

And there were a lot of snacks. So many snacks. All the snacks. And while the snacks were often intended for the littler vacationers among us, everyone partook. (FYI, those extra-small Nutter Butter snack cookies are delicious.)

And you know what? Nothing bad happened. In fact, everything went better for all of us because of it.

We are often quite good at anticipating and providing for others' hunger, especially the kids in our lives. But we don't always do similarly for ourselves, choosing instead to ignore our hunger (or flagging attention span or irritable mood) until eating is more convenient or "reasonable."

But we also have brains and bodies that can benefit from snacks. Our patience, energy, creativity, and decision making improves with consistent nutrition, and our hunger does not always fit neatly within a three-meal-a-day schedule.

So here's your permission. Go get a snack!

We are not so different from kids. Snacking is not something that we outgrow. And we will likely feel better, think better, and behave better after a snack.

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