Oh, do I have stories... There was the time my job banned “junk food” because leadership decided to impose a “food as medicine” approach on the entire staff, thereby promoting the misguided idea that some foods are bad and by extension, that people who enjoyed those foods were bad.

I was on a diet before I’d finished elementary school, so when I talk to clients about body image issues, difficult relationships with food, and the ubiquity of diet culture, I come to these topics with experience. In fact, my longest running relationship is my relationship to dieting