Body Image

Aesthetic Goals and Body Image: a Happy Middle Ground

This is the time of year when all the new years resolutions start coming out, and as a trainer I am required to say something inspiring...

Starting to Show: Body Image in Pregnancy

Imperceptible from the front, but getting hard to hide from the side. It's still at that awkward phase though where I just look like I'm...

What NOT to say to a Pregnant Woman

This one was a very cathartic one to write. Months of stupid, insensitive comments all pent up came flooding out as soon as I touched...

Avoiding Stretch Marks during Pregnancy?

For those of you who know me well, you might be a little surprised that I'm writing about this topic – it's not the sort of thing I...

WEIGHT GAIN DURING PREGNANCY

This is a topic that’s been bugging me a lot lately. Like most women who are pregnant for the first time, I have been religiously...

Crazy Conversations // Pregnancy Edition

Oh god its started. I am officially in that stage of pregnancy that I've been warned about, where the idiocy of people's comments (that...

Don't Tell Your Daughter You're Fat

I found this piece really moving - it made me think about my relationship with my own mother, when I first realised that she was "fat"...