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Rebuilding a Healthy Relationship with Food: Practical Tips That Work

Rebuilding a healthy relationship with food is not about fixing yourself or getting it “right.” It is about slowly unlearning patterns that once helped you cope and replacing them with care, trust, and self-respect. For many women, food has become emotionally charged after years of pressure, rules, and mixed messages. If eating feels harder than it should, you are not alone.

A healthy relationship with food is rooted in flexibility rather than control. It allows room for nourishment and pleasure, guidance from internal cues instead of rigid rules, and choices made from care rather than guilt. This relationship develops over time, through patience and compassion, not perfection.

ilona varoFebruary 3, 2026food, food mentality, disordered eating, eating habits, eating disorder, body image, body acceptance

Understanding Disordered Eating: Signs, Causes, and Recovery Paths

Disordered eating is more common than many women realize, yet it often goes unrecognized or minimized. Many quietly struggle, believing their behaviors are normal or something they should control on their own. If any of this resonates, know this: you are not broken, weak, or failing. Disordered eating is not a personal flaw; it is a coping strategy that developed for a reason.

This article offers understanding, not labels. Whether your relationship with food feels mildly strained or deeply distressing, you deserve care, clarity, and support. Disordered eating is about more than food. It reflects emotional needs, coping mechanisms, and survival strategies. Healing begins not by forcing change, but by understanding your patterns, restoring trust with yourself, and receiving compassionate support along the way.

Disordered Eatingilona varoJanuary 17, 2026disordered eating, dieting, food mentality, food, body image

Weight Watchers

There has been a lot of uproar lately about the new Weight Watchers — Kurbo app, designed for children and adolescents 8-17 to promote weight-loss, calorie counting (via the “points system”) and a “healthier lifestyle.”

I absolutely want us to educate, inspire, and support children from a young age to live their healthiest lives. However, being a chubby child who dieted all my childhood and young adult life, and now being an eating disorder professional (psychotherapist), I think it’s important to do some education on the damage of this philosophy behind “weight-loss.” I’ve seen it first hand, and it’s been proven again and again, that childhood weight-loss efforts can lead to or often worsen disordered eating and body image issues!