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Love your Body Love Yourself Find Freedom with Food and Peace with your Body through compassion and connection to yourself .đź’•đź’•đź’• I can show you how!!

You can
- feel good in your body.
- be proud of what you look like.
- eat yummy foods that nourish you.
- stop the constant mind chatter about food! You don’t have to be obsessed with your body and food in order to look Good!!! You can be a normal eater who stops eating when you're full!!!!

It felt apropos that my last adventure in rural northern Japan was at a lavender farm. This trip has been such a beautif...
06/19/2026

It felt apropos that my last adventure in rural northern Japan was at a lavender farm. This trip has been such a beautiful time of rest and connection and just being with my family in a way our normal life doesn’t really allow for.

And lavender, this plant that just naturally reminds you to slow down and breathe, felt like the perfect way to close out our time in Hokkaido.

Full photo dump and Japan trip highlights video coming soon.

06/14/2026

I want to be honest with you about something.
Before I left for Japan I was really proud of my body. I shared that here. I meant every word of it. It felt like real progress — the kind you work years for and finally get to feel.
And then I arrived and felt terrible.

Headaches. Heaviness. Waking up at 3am with my heart pounding. Just not well. And after how proud I had been — it was discouraging in a way that felt almost cruel. Like my body had waited for the moment I finally trusted it to pull the rug out.

What I noticed in myself — and what I want to name for you — is how fast the verdict arrived. Before I even had information, the story was already forming. See. You can’t handle things. You thought you were doing well and look… you are sick again!

I have spent years learning to catch that moment. The moment between what the body is doing and what I decide it means.
There is a part of what happened next that I want to share with you tomorrow. Because it is the part that actually matters — not the mineral deficiency, not the doctor call, not the physical fix.

The thing that happened inside me before any of that. And it’s the same thing that’s underneath every moment you’ve ever lost it around .

One of my intentions for coming to Japan was to visit Mt Kurama, which is just outside of Kyoto. Mikao Usui meditated fo...
06/05/2026

One of my intentions for coming to Japan was to visit Mt Kurama, which is just outside of Kyoto. Mikao Usui meditated for 21 days on Mount Kurama and discovered the healing modality we call Reiki. And so, I went.
I arrived before any tourists were there, which was so magical. The temple is up and up and up and up these steps with beautiful forest and nature all around. So green. These beautiful little temples and shrines on the way that I sat in and meditated.
And from the beginning, even on the train heading there, I was hit with this wave of gratitude for my life. The kind that hits you upside the head and makes you want to cry and weep. Today I was full of so much weeping and crying for my life.

This walk up these steps was a prayer walk. I prayed for so many people. And if you are reading this, I likely prayed for you. (Yes, even you.) Many of you sent me your intentions for this pilgrimage, & every single intention I received I sat with, walked with, & loved on. I felt into everyone I love — my mom and dad, sisters, my friends, my community, my clients, my family. Prayers for Aspen, prayers for Olaf, prayers for Carmen, my Reiki teacher. Praying and praying & praying, feeling & feeling & loving & loving.

And when I made it to the spot where Mikao Usui was said to have sat for 21 days, I did what seemed appropriate. I put my hands on myself and gave myself healing energy. And I allowed myself to hear God. To stop talking, stop praying, stop asking, stop yearning, stop longing, and just be with God. I don’t know about you, but sometimes my prayers are me more talking at God rather than listening.

There I was on this Buddhist temple, feeling the magnitude of God. And it was interesting — on a Buddhist temple, feeling the presence of Jesus. Jesus, the greatest healer and teacher. He was so present.

When I descended down the other side of the mountain, the crowds were getting bigger. I was deeply rejuvenated, so dropped in & rested. I had a beautiful lunch on the river and then soaked at the Kurama onsen & got a massage. It was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. It is definitely up there.

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In Japan, nobody eats while they walk. Nobody carries a coffee cup down the street or snacks on the train, and there are...
06/01/2026

In Japan, nobody eats while they walk. Nobody carries a coffee cup down the street or snacks on the train, and there are signs in certain places that say no eating in spots where that would never even occur to us to wonder about back home.

When I got off the train in Sapporo, I found the most adorable little stand selling matcha egg pudding, and it looked so good that I bought one and started eating it immediately, right there standing up — and then I caught myself and thought, that is such an American thing to do. Here, you sit. The eating is its own moment, not something you layer on top of wherever you’re rushing off to next.
I’ve been watching this all week and it keeps coming back to the same thing — presence. How present are we actually when we eat, and what are we really looking for when we reach for something? I’m not making anyone wrong for how they relate to food, including myself. I’m just noticing. And sometimes noticing is where everything begins.

If this is something you think about too, I’d love to hear from you. And if you want to read my full reflections from this first week in Japan, comment “JAPAN” below and I’ll send you the link.

Before we left Maui, I was a little worried about what stopping would do to my body. The weeks leading up to this trip w...
05/30/2026

Before we left Maui, I was a little worried about what stopping would do to my body. The weeks leading up to this trip were intense, and I knew it. Packing up the house, getting things into storage, coordinating travel across multiple countries, keeping everything running at the same time — it was a lot, and I felt it moving through me. I kept waiting for the crash, that moment where your body finally sends you the bill for everything you spent.

Olaf noticed before I really let myself say it out loud. He said to me, you really can do so much more than you used to, and I felt that land in a way that was quiet and meaningful. I had taken good care of myself through all of it — healing sessions, listening when my body said enough, not pushing past what was actually true — and my body responded to that. My body showed up for me, and for someone who has spent a long time in a complicated relationship with her body, that is not a small thing to receive.

The first few days here something else moved through me that I want to share, because I think it’s real and we don’t talk about it much. I felt this low-grade restlessness, a kind of agitation I couldn’t quite name at first. I wanted to open my computer, I found myself wanting to eat not because I was hungry but just to give myself something, and I kept feeling this pull toward doing, producing, moving — and then I recognized it. This was just the energy I normally pour into work, and it had arrived in Japan with me with nowhere to go.

That space between moving fast and actually resting is not comfortable when you first get there. It feels more like boredom or a low hum of anxiety, like your nervous system is waiting for the next thing and getting confused when it doesn’t come. I’ve been in that place enough times now to know what it is, and that knowing helped.

I didn’t fill it. I stayed with it, and after a day or so it genuinely shifted into something softer — actual rest, the kind that comes when you finally stop outrunning it.

I almost didn't recognize her.She was walking toward me on the beach, and I had to wait until she got close enough to re...
05/21/2026

I almost didn't recognize her.

She was walking toward me on the beach, and I had to wait until she got close enough to realize — this was my girlfriend. Someone I've loved since my twenties. Someone I used to run around New York City with.

My body knew before my brain caught up. My chest clenched and I was shaking slightly, going overly warm, overly effusive, because I didn't know what else to do with what I was seeing.

She was gaunt. More than I'd ever seen.

Here's what most people don't know about anorexia: it changes the brain. The longer someone restricts, the more the brain loses its ability to convert hunger signals into the motivation to eat. She doesn't see what I see — and genuinely cannot.

She thinks she's winning.

I know how restriction gets hidden. I know because I've been in my own version of this. I remember standing in front of a vending machine on tour with a theater company, so hungry I could barely think — and I couldn't make myself get anything. I was scared. I knew I needed food and my body wouldn't let me reach for it. Later that night, when food was finally in front of me, my belly clenched and rejected it. Horrible cramps. That was the moment I understood what restriction actually does to a body — it stops trusting you.

You don't have to be where my friend is for this to be for you.

The peace you think you'll find when you finally "win" the weight thing isn't waiting there. I've stood at that finish line. The peace comes from healing your relationship with food and your body, not from conquering them.

It is never too early and never too late to find your way through.

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05/02/2026

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