We See Through A Lens of Diet Culture

We have been taught to relate to food through a lens of diet culture.

We have been taught to relate to exercise through a platform of diet culture.

Diet culture steals our voice and inner knowing and tells us what to do. How to eat. How to move and yes, how to relate to our body in photos.

And I know for many people, on their path to body acceptance wake up to the way that we relate to food and exercise and reclaim their power back through frameworks like Intuitive Eating, Joyful Movement and the Health at Every Size Movement.

But then we wonder why we still struggle with photos.

I get asked this question all the time. “Why do I still struggle with photos after doing all this work with food and exercise. I’m awake to diet culture, but still…photos bring it all up again”. 

And my answer is…that diet culture has woven it’s toxic magic wand over our photos too…and it’s a place where we have to reclaim body-neutrality, weight-neutrality, and cultivate a practice of seeing ourselves through an unbiased lens.

And just like healing our relationship to food and exercise, it takes time. It takes unlearning and it takes waking ourselves up again and again to the ways that diet culture has infiltrated this element of our lives too.

Are you ready for an awakening to diet culture in this part of your life too?

Are you ready to do the work to clear the lens of diet culture and listen in to the person waiting underneath?

Come join me for the Body Acceptance Selfie Series (including the Smash the Scale & Pick Up the Camera Webinar Series)! Get all the details and get ready to ditch the lens of diet culture by joining me here. The program starts with our Compassionate Conversations class next Monday!