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Giving Yourself Permission to Eat, Part I by CurlyQ
I have endured a lifetime of disordered eating and am experiencing a renaissance in feeding myself for the first time in my life. It is liberating. It is nurturing. It is nourishing. It’s not going to...
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Giving Yourself Permission to Eat, Part II by CurlyQ
I have already summarized Chapters 1 and 2 of Ellyn Satter’s Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family here. Below I will briefly summarize Chapters 3, “Honor Your Appetite.” Hang on to your socks! This is...
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Giving Yourself Permission to Eat, Part III by CurlyQ
Eat As Much As You Want Does the name of this chapter make you nervous? It certainly made me nervous! Satter quickly reassures us by noting that fear of letting us eat as much as we want leaves out an...
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What is unconditional love? by CurlyQ
I was recently having a conversation with my sisters about love. What it is, what it isn’t, how we can sometimes not feel loved when we actually are loved unconditionally. And we came across a...
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3 Ingredient Summer Sorbet
Summer always gets me thinking of my Dad’s Mom who everyone, even small children, called by her first name. “Patricia” was a wonderful cook who was always entertaining in her glass house overlooking...
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Giving Yourself Permission to Eat, Part IV by CurlyQ
Chapter 5: Feed Yourself Faithfully You will likely not do a good job of eating if you are casual about feeding yourself, grab food when you happen to think about it or when hunger drives you to it,...
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I noticed that my almost 2-year-old’s thumb and pointer fingernails were falling off. As the youngest of 4, Ben gets knocked around pretty good so I figured one of the older kids had closed his fingers...
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1 Month of Meals in 2 Hours
Picture by MomTimesFour I’ve read a lot about making dinnertime easier, but haven’t really moved past the reading part. Until last month! And, oh my goodness! What in the world was I waiting for?! I...
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It’s Time To Come Clean: My Struggle With Bulimia
My heart is pounding in my ears as I type this. I don’t know why since I don’t have to write about my struggle with bulimia; rather, I want to write about my struggle with bulimia. Now that I am on the...
View ArticleFeeding Your Family by CurlyQ
I am reading a book by nutritionist Elleyn Satter entitled Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming (Birth Through Adolescence). Now, before you stop reading this article because your kids don’t...
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