In a previous blog post, I likened my relationship to my body to a marriage. I imagine some of you may be thinking “How can you have a...

Brave Momma, The one in prenatal yoga tonight with a 12 week flat belly. Your first time coming. I see you. I started going to the...

©Maria Paredes, PhD, LPCS, CEDS Often times, we offer ourselves conditional acceptance, denying ourselves full acceptance. We tell...

On today’s yearly Black Friday, when our consumer nation rears its product-hungry head, consider being a smart consumer when it comes to...

While pregnant, one of my hands is always glued to my belly, even before there is really a visible belly to speak of. It feels as though...

Gosh, I love me some viral body acceptance videos!!! And awareness-raising about eating disorders, body image, etc. Keep ‘em coming!!!...

Change—even good change—can be hard. All agreed? No, not sure? Click here to read about how Change is nutrition for anxiety. Click here...

Now that we’ve established anxiety can be just like the Blob of the 1980s horror flick (ya know, other than the whole jelly-like...

There are a lot of good metaphors we can attach to the experience of anxiety but my favorite to use is that of the 1988 cult classic...

A couple weeks ago, I wrote my first post for this blog. I stayed up late one night after putting my daughters to bed, sitting so long in...

Have you heard about Renee Zellweger’s face? No? Not yet? You should check out my facebook feed. It’s trending, apparently. It has gone...