I’ve already had the great opportunity to speak with many women about their recovery from eating disorders and emotional eating (you can find the interviews here). I hope to regularly feature Q&As with individuals who’ve recovered from eating disorders, binge eating, negative body image or any kind of disordered eating. If you’d like to share your story of recovery, I’d love to hear from you! You can email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com.

In part two of my interview with writer and health coach Eleanor Kohlsaat, she talks more about her recovery from binge eating. Specifically, she discusses her “rude awakening,” why she doesn’t feel guilty anymore, how families can help their loved one, why “experts” aren’t always right and more.

I’ve already had the great opportunity to speak with many women about their recovery from eating disorders and emotional eating (you can find the interviews here). I hope to regularly feature Q&As with individuals who’ve recovered from eating disorders, binge eating, negative body image or any kind of disordered eating. If you’d like to share your story of recovery, I’d love to hear from you! You can email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com.

How many of you have dieted? How many have tried your best to stick to a diet but end up overeating? Or have a history of restricting your food and then binge eating? This is a common cycle for so many of us. A cycle that we rarely talk about. A cycle that brings us shame and makes us feel like failures. All of which takes us further and further away from honoring and listening to our bodies and our needs.

Every Monday features a tip, exercise, inspiring quote or other tid-bit to help boost your body image. For many of us, Mondays are tough. We may feel anxious and stressed out, anticipating an arduous week, especially if we didn’t get much rest and relaxation during the weekend. These kinds of feelings don’t create the best environment for improving one’s body image. In fact, you might be harder on yourself and easily frustrated. You might even feel like you’re walking on egg shells – with yourself! With these posts, I hope you’ll have a healthier and happier body image day, that’ll last throughout the week.

Got a tip for improving body image? Email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com, and I’ll be happy to feature it. It can be anything you do that’s healthy and helps boost your body image. I’d love to hear from you!

Do you love yourself? Do you love yourself unconditionally? Do you even like yourself? You may have never even considered it. Say “self-love” and many people think conceited, vain and narcissistic. Or hokey, in a kumbaya-sorta way. But after today’s post, I hope you see loving yourself a little differently. Not as selfish. Not as unnecessary. And definitely for you.

Every week, I try to feature a woman’s story of recovery from anorexia, bulimia, emotional eating or any other kind of disordered eating (BTW, if you’re interested in sharing yours, email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com). Recently, I’ve started asking about everyone’s favorite resources, including books and websites. So today I wanted to compile a list of all these resources in hopes that you might find them informative and inspiring.

I’ve already had the great opportunity to speak with many women about their recovery from eating disorders and emotional eating (you can find the interviews here). I hope to regularly feature Q&As with individuals who’ve recovered from eating disorders, binge eating, negative body image or any kind of disordered eating. If you’d like to share your story of recovery, I’d love to hear from you! You can email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com.

I’m so pleased to feature my interview with Michelle Myers, who recounts her struggles with anorexia. Below, she talks about how a near-death experience and her faith inspired her to seek recovery, the important role her family played, the misconceptions about eating disorders and more. Her story, like all the women who’ve generously shared theirs, is insightful and uplifting.

Every Monday (with the exception of today ) features a tip, exercise, inspiring quote or other tid-bit to help boost your body image. For many of us, Mondays are tough. We may feel anxious and stressed out, anticipating an arduous week, especially if we didn’t get much rest and relaxation during the weekend. These kinds of feelings don’t create the best environment for improving one’s body image. In fact, you might be harder on yourself and easily frustrated. You might even feel like you’re walking on egg shells – with yourself! With these posts, I hope you’ll have a healthier and happier body image day, that’ll last throughout the week.

Got a tip for improving body image? Email me at mtartakovsky@gmail.com, and I’ll be happy to feature it. It can be anything you do that’s healthy and helps boost your body image. I’d love to hear from you!

I’ve decided to create an inspiration board to fuel, motivate and enliven my writing. When I’m having a tough time finding ideas or it’s been a rough day, I can turn to my inspiration board for comfort, a creativity boost and essentially a visual reminder of what’s important.

Last Friday, I featured part one of my interview with Linda Bacon, Ph.D, author of Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and nutrition professor and researcher in the Biology Department at City College of San Francisco. She debunked many of the misconceptions we have about weight loss and the obesity epidemic.