Brave Awakening, LLC

01/11/2026

10/07/2024

Dear fellow therapist, the work you’re doing is incredibly important and deeply meaningful. It is also exhausting. We were never meant to do it alone. Let’s connect with each other and make sure that you have an intentional space and time that’s dedicated to your needs.

09/24/2024

We can’t ignore it. It’s everywhere we live. In our homes, in our schools, in our doctors’ offices.

Ways you can help:

🙌 raise your own awareness

🗣️ change the way you speak about bodies, health, food, and movement

👂👁️ be on the lookout for bias and discrimination in your community. If you see something, say something.

07/31/2024

New group starting this September!

06/13/2024

06/12/2024

Look, I’ll be the 🙋🏼‍♀️ to say parenting is f$& hard, so I’m not out here trying to shame anyone for doing their GD best

AND

I know we all love our kids so freaking much that if there’s something we could be doing a little better to make sure they’re developing in a healthy way, we want to know!

So…

One thing I know a little bit about, is the harmful effects of diet culture. The reality is, it’s a breading ground for insecurity on the mild end and eating disorders at its most severe.

is everywhere we look. This weekend I took my 4yo to a birthday party and overheard every comment in this post. And I know these parents love their kids! They think they’re protecting them from unhealthy foods and teaching them

The problem is that diet rules have led us astray. (For more on this check out my blog posts in my linktr.ee)

The long and short: know that labeling food as “healthy” or “unhealthy” or “good for you” vs. “bad for you” sets up a tone of morality and rules around eating that becomes the basis of food guilt. It can also make food and bodies a place to exercise control. And for kids who already have so little control over their lives, creating a power struggle around food can lead to a lifelong struggle with eating.

So my one piece of advice for today: serve all the food at once (yes, even the gummy snacks) and 🤐 no comments or instructions necessary!

Step back, enjoy your own lunch, and relax 🤙

06/12/2024

New blog post on working through food guilt is up! 🍕🍔🧁

May we satisfy our hunger and nourish our bodies with ease 🙏

Diet culture locates the “problem of fatness” within us, as if each of us are helpless to our hedonistic, pleasure-seeking instincts that will lead us astray from the moral imperative to be, and stay, thin.   Diet culture then prescribes a seemingly unending, and at times contradictory,