I reported to them that your weight is fine, but your organs are failing and you’re not getting any better. There’s not much else we can do for you since according to your weight, you’re perfectly healthy and yet you’re really sick since you’re not eating. They asked...
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Welcome to WithAll’s Blog!
Here, we share observations on the diet culture and body ideals that have surrounded most of us from our birth through today. We also write about the why and how of the cultural transformation WithAll (with you) is driving to fundamentally alter body and food perceptions and understanding. These posts offer insights, tips, and resources to help you, an adult role model like us, create and hold the space where young people grow free of the harmful messages that do not serve health and wellbeing.
If there is a topic related to young people, body image, and food that you are interested in having us write about, or if you would like to submit a request to be a guest author, please email us at hello@withall.org with “Blog request” in the subject line.
Nurturing Recovery: Charlotte’s Journey with the Support of WithAll
Reflecting on the assistance she received, Charlotte expresses profound gratitude. "The grant I received from WithAll was an immense help," she affirms. "It alleviated my top financial stressor — groceries — and allowed me to remain fully present in my treatment...
The tale of an introverted daughter of an extroverted mother
When my daughter was in school, I listened for any possible thing my very introverted daughter might be interested in or inspired by, to get her out of her room and into the world. But she preferred to be alone with her pens, pencils, paints and piles of paper,...
Compassion for the Almond Moms
So, when one of my colleagues posted a video in our team Slack last spring about "almond moms," I was completely lost yet totally fascinated. If you're nodding along, let's navigate this whole "almond mom" thing together – consider this a mom-to-mom crash course. What...
3 Tips When Your Kids Only Want Sugary and Salty Snacks (From a Registered Dietician)
We asked registered dietician and mother of three, Dr. Katie Loth for her advice for handling sweet and fatty snacks with kids. Here is what she had to share. This is a great question and first I want to start by saying that you’re right. There are more and more...
Stop the Candy Battle: 4 Healthier Ways to Talk to Kids about Candy this Valentine’s Day
Deciding how to approach Valentine's Day 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...
Breaking Free from Diet Culture: Protecting our Youth’s Health and Self-Image
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...
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...
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