The Reach Blog
5 years ago I bought a shirt with the word ‘SANTOSHA’ on it.
I told everyone that it meant embracing the paradox of “both/and” (over the “tyranny of the “or” - a term from Jim Collins).
It’s the foundation of the work I do and it was fun to wear a...
You love a diet.
Even if you don't love a diet, there are things about a diet that you love.
An oversimplified theory that feels like magic, 12 steps, food lists and meal plans, eat this and don’t eat that colour-coded infographics, things you can count/track/measure… my...
I want you to think of a penny. Are you picturing it?
Perfect.
Now, I want you to turn it over in your hands, noticing the word YES marked clearly on one side and the word NO, boldly labelled on the other.
I’d like you to imagine throwing that penny up in the air - seeing how high you...
It’s the most unnatural, natural thing I’ve ever done.
That was Amy, the first of my girlfriends to have a baby which, to my 20-something, still in school and travelling the world self, felt a million years away. I couldn’t connect to her experience at all.
...
How do you feel about intermittent fasting?
What about carbs? Is it a diet if I decide to reduce carb intake?
These are my favourite kinds of questions. The ones that challenge me to explore and explain the complexity and nuance of intuitive eating.
I'm currently...
Last night, I was clearing out closets and drawers filled with crinkly class pictures, forgotten report cards that had once caused tears, Mother's Day crafts, and old credit card statements (which are so revealing and fun to look at!!) and I found a family "Home Book" I had...
When Winnie was 18 months old we travelled to the UK - just like we did this year - albeit for only 2 weeks. We went to London and Dublin and maybe some other places... I don't quite remember because I was pregnant with Pippa - an event I wasn't planning for or aware of until I started...
I was scrolling through Facebook over the weekend, trying to leave witty happy birthday messages that'd beat all the other birthday messages, when I noticed that my home feed was reading like a doomsday roster.
"What else is new?" I know you're wondering, with an audible eye roll - as...
I'm standing on top of Primrose Hill, London - a place I stood at the age of 19, regularly through my 20s, at 37 and now - once at again - at 42.
A wild and surreal marking of time made possible by the scientific miracle of transatlantic flight, a carefully allotted travel...
I'm a pusher.
I push.
How many times have I popped up in your inbox to push new food and body ideas - and then added on a side push of watch Ted Lasso (but I was right, wasn't I??) or go to PEI! (right again!) or eat this salad (up for debate).
I'm currently...
{Note: this post was originally published on July 11, 2018 and is just being re-posted to this platform}
I've been offering myself up: my story, my education, my clinical experience, my mistakes, my learning...and sometimes my photo to help benefit the women (all humans really) around me who...
Today I present to you: a random assortment of thoughts.
Like a box of shiny, foil-wrapped chocolates from a slightly feverish mind - because it's almost Valentine's Day and I do, in fact, have Covid.
Welcome to my state of slightly achy, chilly, delirium. We'll see how this...
