Next time you see a wellness product or program, ask yourself:  Who benefits from me believing I need to control my body this way?

Becoming your future self isn’t about fixing who you’ve been. It’s about carrying every version of yourself forward with compassion, acceptance, and gratitude.

Because when you stop waging war on your past, you free up all that energy to create the future you’ve been dreaming of.

I’m inspired by the Bechdel Test—a brilliant and biting way to measure how well women are represented in film. It’s simple, elegant, and often sobering: Do two women talk to each other about something other than a man? But what if we applied the same kind of clarity to body representation? What if we had a test for how larger-bodied characters show up in our stories—not as jokes, cautionary tales, or redemption arcs, but as fully human?

If you’ve watched the news or logged onto your social media recently, chances are that you’ve seen some upsetting and potentially traumatic images or videos.  For me, I use grounding techniques to connect myself to the present and to my body. I find ways to check in with myself, especially when things feel so overwhelming that it’s hard to do more than just go through the motions.

No one talks about how lonely healing can feel—even when it’s the right decision. Even when you're the one who left. Even when you’ve done all the right things since then: therapy, journaling, setting boundaries, chasing freedom.

What no one prepared me for was how often I’d find myself unconsciously reaching for a sense of safety that no longer existed outside of me.

When I first began eating disorder recovery, I thought it would be about food. About adding things back in. About not skipping meals. About “getting healthy again.”

But what it really became was a mirror. A mirror that showed me how much of my life I had been spending trying to be small—not just physically, but emotionally, spiritually, and relationally.

June is PTSD Awareness Month, and at Inner Revolution, we want to gently remind you that trauma doesn't always look the way it's portrayed in the media. PTSD isn't just combat-related or tied to one-time catastrophic events—it can stem from ongoing experiences of shame, neglect, abuse, fatphobia, medical trauma, and the chronic stress of living in a world that doesn't always feel safe.