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Sparknotes: Come hang out with me on Zoom to celeb

Sparknotes: Come hang out with me on Zoom to celebrate the Launch of Fed Up! No purchase necessary 🤍 LINK IN BIO 🤍 Friday October 15, 5pm PDT/8pm EDT

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I’ve been taking an unexpected social media hiatus (probably not recommended in the wake of releasing a book 😅) but I wanted to come back to invite you to a virtual launch party! Whether or not you’ve recieved the book yet, you’re welcome to join the celebration where I’ll read bits, answer questions, and do whatever feels like the most fun in the moment!

DM me for the Zoom Link or find it in my bio 🤍🤍🤍 I love you!
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#launchparty #book #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

Inktober Day 6: “Spirit” . . . @inktober #ink

Inktober Day 6: “Spirit”
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@inktober #inktober2021 #inktober #spirit #art #drawing #cartoon #ink #penandink #creative #creativity

We eat with all of our senses. 🍛👀👃🏼🫀👅 I love feeling the satisfaction that comes from eating food that looks pretty, smells yummy, and feels warm and nourishing in my belly. Not every meal of mine is the PERFECT combination of these elements, but taking time to consume meals in a pleasurable way, especially around people I love, helps to make eating a sacred ritual instead of just a functional necessity.

What food sounds comforting and satisfying for you right now??
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#food #yummy #foodporn #jamaicanfood #satisfying #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

Inktober Day 4: “Knot” AKA a fun brand expansi

These cuties had no idea Instagram was broken for

These cuties had no idea Instagram was broken for half the day 🐴💖🦄
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#horses #presence #sunset #joy #gratitude #ilovevolunteering #with #wildmustangs

Inktober Day 3: “Vessel” . . . #inktober #inkt

Inktober Day 3: “Vessel”
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#inktober #inktober2021 #day3 #vessel #cartoon #drawing #penandink #creativity #prompt #art #spirituality #body #soul #samesame

If you pre-ordered “Fed Up,” I officially pack

If you pre-ordered “Fed Up,” I officially packed up the first half of orders and sent them out on Friday! It was fun and I put a little extra love in each one 💖

More books & love available at www.thefedupbook.com
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#preorder #packing #author #timelapse #thefedupbook #selfcare #selflove #health #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #inspiration #cartoon #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #healing

Friendly reminder: We’re all doing our best ♥

Friendly reminder:
We’re all doing our best ♥️🤵🏻‍♀️♠️

Inktober Day 2: “Suit”
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#inktober #inktober2021 #drawing #creativity #art #penandink
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Inktober Day 1: “Crystal” 💎☀️🔮 I re

Inktober Day 1: “Crystal” 💎☀️🔮

I rekindled my love for drawing four Octobers ago after seeing a friend posting pen and ink drawings based on a daily prompt. I was intrigued by the challenge and had all sorts of self-doubt crop up, questioning whether I’d have anything good to draw of if it would be annoying to fill my followers’ feeds with my amateur art. Thankfully, I’d become familiar with noticing limiting beliefs, and knew my resistance was a sign to do the opposite of whatever my protective ego was telling me to do.

This period coincided with my first foray into Intuitive Eating, which was rocking my eating disorder recovery world. Giving myself permission to eat “off-limits” foods for the first time in my adult life was bringing up nuanced emotions I’d never felt before, fears that had been buried deep beneath a heap of control and coping mechanisms. I was surprised to discover that giving myself the assignment of drawing a prompt-based cartoon every day was the perfect entry point into expressing and understanding some of my ever-evolving thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. It was a way for me to see the ridiculousness of the diet culture values that were plastered inside my brain, and helped me scrape them off one snarky cartoon at a time.

Although I didn’t plan it this way, it is absolutely PERFECT that the launch day for “Fed Up” is October 1st—the month that opened my eyes to this form of self-expression that has now filled an entire memoir worth of cartoons and recovery tales! Who invented Inktober?? If that person is reading this, I want to express the deepest gratitude for the invitation to dive deeper into the inky depths of myself. And if you’re reading this and are looking for a similar invitation, consider yourself invited.

I love you. Happy Inktobering 🖌🤍🖤
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#inktober #inktober2021 #crystal #penandink #drawing #thefedupbook #selfcare #selflove #health #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #art #creativity #bodylove #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #healing @inktober

✨Today was truly magical!!! ✨ I am brimming wi

✨Today was truly magical!!! ✨ I am brimming with gratitude. Fed Up is officially birthed into the world thanks to the amazing souls in Park City and beyond who brought my book launch to life!!

I am blown away by the supportive community I’m surrounded by. Thank you to @allison_skok for assembling the most beautiful Fed Up-themed spread, @toetoegurl & @kiln.co for hosting the event, Alex for interviewing me, and everyone who attended, bought books, asked questions, and shared your loving presence 💖 Thank you @quantum_theater for being by my nervous-excited side all week (year)! And thank you Carole & @philipaugustinewells who believed in me enough to give me a *book deal* and who continue to cheerlead me through all the highs and lows of the creative process.

My cup is full, my heart is happy, and I’m excited for this next chapter of sharing my story with the world. Thank you for being here with me 🥰🙏🏼💖

Order your copy or read part of the book for FREE at www.thefedupbook.com 📚✨
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#gratitude #booklaunch #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #selflove #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #selfcare #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #healing

💚Friendly Reminder💚 Our bodies are AMAZING..

💚Friendly Reminder💚
Our bodies are AMAZING...but they’re not everything.
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#bodylove #bodyfreedom #foodfreedom #love #normalizenormalbodies #healing #recovery #breathe #finitebody #infinitespirit

Thank you for the sweetest and yummiest [soft] Lau

Thank you for the sweetest and yummiest [soft] Launch Day treats, @melissa.m.stock 😍🥰🍪 I feel AND taste the love!

I’m grateful for Food Freedom, which is currently letting me enjoy one of these delicious cookies while drawing custom cartoons for all of the incredible pre-orders I’ve gotten this week!! Thank you thank you for the outpouring of love in the form of book-ordering 😍🥰😍

If you’d like to get one of the first signed copies of Fed Up WITH an original piece of artwork, there’s still time to pre-order! Link is in my bio.

I love you!! 💖💖💖
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#cookies #yummy #preorder #thankyou #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

☀️It’s a beautiful day to dismantle Diet Cul

☀️It’s a beautiful day to dismantle Diet Culture (along with all systems that hold us back from being our big beautiful selves)! ☀️

I am officially two weeks away from birthing my creative baby “Fed Up” into the world! The delivery date was meant to be today, but due to some printing delays I’ll be inducing labor on October 1st. I was given a beautiful reminder this morning that there’s always a good reason behind delays, so instead of getting into a perfectionistic tizzy, I’m going to take this moment to reflect and share and breathe a little more than I would be if it were *original book launch day.*

I’m grateful for all the support I’ve received around this book-birthing process and throughout my journey of healing body dysmorphia, bulimia, obsessive dieting & exercise, and living in a secretive mental prison. Walking the beautifully uncomfortable, brutally honest path of recovery has given me access to life I’d never had before—a freedom I’d never felt, a here-ness I’d never experienced. I finally understood the Velveteen Rabbit story about “becoming Real”—I no longer cared what I look like, I just wanted to be Real. Ever since touching the Realness of recovery, I’ve felt this story growing within me like a baby. I felt pregnant with it, taking notes and soaking up nutrients from the human experience to share later.

It’s tempting to say I wrote this book as a way to help people who have ever struggled with food and body like I did (which is true, I would like to help everyone feel less alone on their own journey back home to themselves), but the truer truth is that this story needed to come out of me so that I could live with even more freedom & lightness. Recovery has been the biggest gift of my life, and I only get to keep what I’m willing to give away. So let’s give it away!

I’m extending my preorder offer—if you order before October 1st, I will include an ORIGINAL piece of artwork with a signed copy of the book! Visit www.thefedupbook.com for all the goodies 💓📚💝

💛🍳Runny yolks are my love language 🍳💛

💛🍳Runny yolks are my love language 🍳💛

My dear friend Diana made me this epic meal this week, and I felt waves and waves of yummy love coming through each bite! I’m reflecting on how my obsessive food brain used to rob me of the enjoyment of eating food another person had made for me, as I’d often prefer to make food myself so I could track everything that was in it. Eating experiences were stressful instead of relaxed, and the only way to navigate the stress was control, control, CONTROL.

I honestly didn’t believe food freedom was possible for a long time. My most realistic hope was to find a meal plan that made it so I could eat the same thing every day and never have to think about food ever again. Finding physical nourishment from food was one layer of healing, but to let myself discover truly satisfying food experiences was when I got to feel what “freedom” meant.

I feel like sending a little message of hope to my food-obsessed past self that one day, food will be loving, relaxed, and fun again.

I love you! What’s the message you want to send to your past self today?
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#food #foodporn #runnyyolks #egg #brunch #freedom #selflove #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #health #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #medicalfreedom #art #creativity #bodylove #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #healing

“Living above the line of choice” has been one

“Living above the line of choice” has been one of the themes of my yoga teacher training this week. It refers to the fine line between choosing how we respond to life and blindly reacting to it. Living above the line means choosing to relate to each moment from a place of love, compassion, and honesty, and living below it means feeling like I’m being dragged around like a rag doll, swept away by tumultuous waves of uncertainty. I’ve toggled between both positions throughout my life, as I’m sure all of us have.

As I’m reflecting on this visual of being “above or below the line of choice,” I find it extra-empowering to envision the entire thing as being within a larger reality that I AM choosing in each moment, whether I’m aware of it or not. Being above or below the line simply refers to whether I’m AWARE of my ability to choose in each moment, but I’m making a choice regardless of whether I’m responding or reacting to life. When I’m in a place of feeling disempowered, remembering “I am choosing this,” helps me to reorient to the moment in a more powerful way. I can begin choosing new thoughts, new actions, new ways of relating to myself and the world.

It is shocking and upsetting to me that we are openly debating whether or not people should have the right to choose what’s best for them in their lives. Whether we’re talking about freedom of food choice, body choice, medical choice, thought choice, or speech choice, if we are attempting to eliminate others’ rights to choose what is best for themselves, we are infringing upon their humanity. One size does not fit all, and if it did, we would have no diversity on the planet. I am not here to champion one choice over another, but to encourage all of us to return to a place of centeredness, freedom, and autonomy when we do make choices. We do not need a world of everyone choosing the same thing, but of everyone listening deeply to their inner wisdom, living above the line.

I love you, I see you, and I support the way you are navigating your reality to the best of your ability.

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✨“Thank you for sharing your light.” ✨ A f

✨“Thank you for sharing your light.” ✨ A friend said this to me today and I noticed an old thought pattern pop up—“Deflect! Retreat! Go back into hiding!” Thankfully, I saw the ridiculousness of it before responding. One of the strongest tendencies of my protective ego is to hide my light and my voice—it can feel too naked and vulnerable to have my open heart hanging out of my chest! But if I’m being honest, the best thing I can do for myself and others is to let the truth of my being flow out of me in whatever way it wants to, without trying to sculpt and mold it to fit some image that feels “safe” and “palatable.”

I’ve been especially shy about sharing my voice in a time where the world feels so divided. This is a time where speaking one’s truth almost always involves polarizing a group of people. I’m not interested in taking sides. I’m more interested in finding the ground beneath the sides—the ground of love, kindness, connection, liberation of every body. There is more that unites us than divides us.

May we all breathe deeply, connect to what is true, and let our light pour out freely. I love you. Thank you for being here and for being you.
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#light #love #kindness #normalizenormalbodies #selflove #dietculture #recover #freedom #antidiet #health #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #medicalfreedom #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

Now more than ever it feels important to pay atten

Now more than ever it feels important to pay attention to what resonates deeply with us and move in that direction. In a world where the line between “right” and “wrong” are becoming more blurred by the minute, tuning into what is right for us is essential. Activating our internal guidance system will lead us home.

I love you. May we all leave the world better than we found it today.
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#eat #drink #think #speak #selflove #dietculture #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #health #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

Today’s episode of Casual Ecstasy features this

Today’s episode of Casual Ecstasy features this boo!! Join us diving into our squishy insides (and inside jokes, which you are invited into too)!!

Link in my bio ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
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@quantum_theater #casualecstasy #podcast #truth #linkinbio #shareyourvoice #innerchild #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #bodypositive #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

✨💜🥇LIFE HACK🥇💜✨

Competition isn’t real. When your goal is to be yourself, you win by default. And so does humanity. On behalf of all of us on the planet, THANK YOU FOR BEING YOU!
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#lifehack #beyourself #competition #nocompetition #winning #humanity #gratitude #selflove #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #health #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #art #creativity #bodylove #eatingdisorder #recovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

I’m grateful for nature, clean drinking water, a

I’m grateful for nature, clean drinking water, and the ability to belt showtunes as loud as I want in my car! What is one small (or BIG) thing lighting you up today? 💖💛💖
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#light #delight #nature #singing #water #bodyacceptance #recover #freedom #antidiet #intuitiveeating #intuitiveliving #inspiration #cartoon #thefedupbook #foodfreedom #healthfreedom #weightloss #art #creativity #bodylove #normalizenormalbodies #eatingdisorder #recovery #edrecovery #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #spirituality #coaching #healing

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