Here’s a milestone to celebrate: Last week Amy Palanjian and I posted the 60th episode of the Comfort Food Podcast, our podcast about the joys (and meltdowns!) of feeding our families and ourselves. Our guest, Jessica Jones, RDN of …
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Here’s a milestone to celebrate: Last week Amy Palanjian and I posted the 60th episode of the Comfort Food Podcast, our podcast about the joys (and meltdowns!) of feeding our families and ourselves. Our guest, Jessica Jones, RDN of …
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that I write so much about eating disorders and food struggles, even though I’ve never had an eating disorder myself. The first answer to that is: I’m a woman who grew up in modern …
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a restful holiday break and is ready to save the world now because 2020, we’ve got work to do. But first, a look backwards.
Here are my favorite things I wrote last year……
A few weeks ago, America’s Drunk Moms (Hoda and Jenna) decided to intermittently fast their way through the holiday season and we’ve been subjected to all manner of diet culture-y banality from them ever since. When I posted about it…
A question that I’m asked repeatedly (by readers, podcast listeners, and social media folk) is some version of: “Do you have something my spouse can read to get on board with this?” (Sometimes replace spouse with parent or babysitter. Mostly, …
If you’ve been feeling over-confident about gender roles lately — maybe because so many women are running for president, or because She Said is on the NYT Bestseller list and Harvey Weinstein got indicted again — you can slow that …
I’ve spent a lot of this summer feeling a little bleh. Uninspired. Burnt out. The Eating Instinct has been out for the better part of a year and while I still hear from readers weekly (thank you!) its “moment,” so …
I tend to have a little panic attack at the start of August. Because summer is my most favorite season (yes, even the 98 degree days though I am a person with air conditioning privilege) and I start to get …
Everyone tells writers not to read the comments, and I tell all my sources not to read the comments, but here’s a secret: We all read the comments. I’ve been reading the hundreds rolling in on my new New York …
This month, I’ve been reporting on the tough choices faced by pregnant women managing chronic diseases: Do they treat their symptoms (whether that’s physical pain or mental instability) even if it means accruing unknown risks for their babies? Or do …
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