by Gillian Goerzen | Dec 1, 2020 | Healthy Living
A couple of weeks ago, inspired by my friend Dee, I jumped in the ocean and did my very first cold water swim. Outside of the odd January 1st Polar Bear swim, I don’t typically swim in the outdoors between about October and May. Because…it’s cold! As...
by Gillian Goerzen | Oct 20, 2020 | Healthy Living
Truth alert. I was wrapped up in Diet Culture more recently than I’d care to admit. In my most recent (and last) stint with dieting I would have classified what I did as “Clean Eating.” I mostly ate foods I viewed as healthful and was covertly...
by Gillian Goerzen | Sep 29, 2020 | Healthy Living
Sometimes when you begin explore Anti-Diet, Health at Every Size (HAES®) and Intuitive Eating it’s like the curtain got pulled back on Oz and you simply can’t go back. You see Diet Culture for all it is (and all the damage it does) and you simply...
by Gillian Goerzen | Sep 15, 2020 | Healthy Living
There’s an awesome Baroness Von Sketch segment with the title “It isn’t Peri-Menopause, is it?” that nearly had me in stitches. They completely nailed the mystification and utter disbelief that shroud’s Peri-Menopause (both culturally and...
by Gillian Goerzen | Jul 28, 2020 | Healthy Living
10 ways Diet Culture is infiltrating our lives (and minds) and what we can do to take action to be informed, educated and empowered in our bodies. I’ve recently finished the NEW book Anti-Diet by HAES® informed Registered Dietitian and Intuitive Eating...
by Gillian Goerzen | Jul 15, 2020 | Healthy Living
How the simple sign off from our rockstar BC Provincial Health Officer may just be the best advice out there for getting through this pandemic (and life) healthy, happy and well. In case you missed it, the Provincial Health Officer in BC is a total rockstar. Not only...
