This vibrant 11-year-old now battles feelings of shame about her body and appetite, influenced by well-intended but unaware adults who warn this young person about her size and eating habits (which, again, are typical). As her body matures to more closely resemble the...
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Not Okay in December
When I started my advocacy efforts in 2014 through a youth-led eating disorder organization called REbeL, I did not know that my participation would save me from developing a full-blown eating disorder (instead, leaving me with a more manageable form of disordered...
But there are certain foods that are better for us, right? Shouldn’t we be helping kids to understand and make good food choices?
It’s true that certain foods provide more nutritional value to our bodies than others. And it is important to help kids understand that what we eat has a significant impact on things like our energy levels. However, we can teach kids this by focusing on things like...
The What to Say Halloween Pledge
This Halloween, we’re encouraging adults to keep Halloween shame-free by: not talking about candy as “bad,” “unhealthy,” or “junk;” not commenting on people’s bodies (including my own!) Are you committed to doing this too? If so, click the links below to share the...
What to Say Halloween Challenge
Introducing… the What to Say Halloween Challenge! This October, we want to combat diet culture by focusing on the things we love about Halloween! So, we’ve created our first social media challenge of 2022: the What to Say Halloween Challenge. If there’s something...
Stop the Candy Battle: 4 Healthier Ways to Talk to Kids about Candy this Halloween
Deciding how to approach Halloween candy is an opportunity to think about how we approach what we say around our children for all the foods we think of as “bad” or “unhealthy” during this season, and beyond. WithAll’s What to Say Initiative is dedicated to preventing...
What America’s Top Athletes Know about Health & Performance with Olympic Skiers Jessie Diggins & Gus Schumacher
https://vimeo.com/700691600 Whether a young athlete, coach or parent of an athlete, this video will equip and inspire you to support the health of the athletes in your life and hear the powerful stories of two of the world’s top athletes. Athletes have a significantly...
Defining Healthy for Kids with Dr. Katie Loth & Dr. Charlotte Markey
You’ve got questions, we’ve got experts. This virtual session with Dr. Katie Loth and Dr. Charlotte Markey in April 2022 goes deeper into how you can support life-long health and well-being for the kids in your life through the words you say and actions you model...
How Reliance on BMI Keeps Us Sick
Elie: When I was 15 years old, I was hospitalized for my eating disorder (ED). I was diagnosed at a trip to the doctor's office: an appointment I had made not because I had become a shard of my former spastic, goofy self, nor because I had about the same amount of...