by Erica Leon | Feb 9, 2023
Parents! Let’s talk about what happens when you comment on food intake, body weight, and body image in front of your children. By Emilie Procario, Dietetic Intern and Erica Leon, MS, RDN It is hard to have any conversations these days that doesn’t include...
by Erica Leon | Jan 16, 2021
Are you using food as a coping tool? You’re not alone. Stress brings this on and it’s been a really long, stressful first two weeks of the year. Between the angry mob of white supremacists storming the capital, the second impeachment of this President, then add...
by Erica Leon | Dec 23, 2020
I wanted to share something that came up during my Holiday Survive and Thrive Challenge last week. During the lessons and conversations that happened during the Challenge, one question came up that I believe confuses many people. That question is…”What is...
by Erica Leon | Jul 27, 2019
How sad that, in our culture, a woman’s relationship with her body often causes insecurity, fear, self-doubt, shame, guilt, low self-esteem, and all too often, self-hatred. The statistics are downright shocking; more than 5-10 million girls and women and 1 million...
by Erica Leon | Sep 29, 2018
Our families and the environment, like diet culture, are often sources of negative self-talk. Negative Self-Talk can take over our lives, but there is a way to Navigate through it and show Self-Compassion. Our brains internalize the messages we receive from an early...
