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Reveal the Body You Were Born to Shine In

Hello beautiful! My husband and I are on the train leaving Paris – always a sad moment! But France now brings me so much joy! If you’ve read through the Nice Series, you…

Lesson 5: Dealing with Body Shame Insecurities

Ok beautiful, we’ve come a long way. I don’t just mean my husband and I (we’ve moseyed our way over to Salzburg, Austria!) – I mean you! In this Nice series, we’ve talked…

Lesson 4: The Big Reveal, and Parsing Shame

I’m walking through the airport on a 3-hour layover. Make that a 3-hour pastry hunt. I feel more hopeless and out of control than I have at almost any other time in my…

Lesson 3, Part 2: The Foundations of Body Shame

Hello lovely! I write to you today from Ramstein Air Base in southwest Germany! My husband and I will be abroad for the next few months, traveling around Europe as he completes some required…

Lesson 3: Body shame and the games it plays

I’m three weeks into this trip, and I already can’t fit into the pants I wore on the way over. I am almost constantly eating; it’s like my appetite knows no such thing…

Lesson 2: The Pastry Path and how to consistently sidestep insatiable hunger

The path was dusty, it was long, and it really was uphill both ways – really!  And one morning on this routine trek from my host family’s house to the hospital, I came upon…

Lesson 1: My failed French diet, and how to create a lifestyle shift that lasts

Ready? We’re about to take a 7 hour flight across the Atlantic, land in London for a layover at Heathrow, and then jet to Nice. I still remember hastily putting on make-up as the…

Back to Nice, France

Six years ago I left home for a five week summer study abroad in the gorgeous southern French city of Nice. I was thrilled. I couldn’t wait for the sunshine, the ocean, the sultry…