A new chapter: Intuitive Eating
Friends, it's official: I am now a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor!
Yes, I've been absent from much of the online world for half a year.
Between our move to Australia, living out of suitcases, searching for a new home and gradually starting over, it's been one of the longest, most confronting and full-on six months of my life.
But I'm still here.
Grateful to be emailing you from our 3rd floor light-filled sunroom in the heart of Gadigal land (currently known as Sydney), listening to the ravens cawing, watching the bin chickens soaring above - and slowly making this cute neighborhood home.
So grateful for a chance to pause "business as usual" and focus on what's next.
Because here's what's coming: 👇🏽
Did you know that Intuitive Eating is connected to your liberation?
Yep, stick with me.
Intuitive Eating is not simply about "finding food freedom," creating a more satisfying and pleasurable relationship with your food, or eating without guilt - although those are natural byproducts of this work.
Many of the Intuitive Eating principles (as outlined by the movement's founders Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch) for example:
"Reject diet culture"
"Honor your hunger"
"Discover your satisfaction factor
"Challenge the food police"
"Cope with your feelings with kindness"
"Respect your body"...
...go directly against how we (primarily women) are socialized.
We are taught to disconnect from our body, distrust its hunger signals, have flawless skin, hate our wrinkles, get rid of stretch marks, burn off belly fat, hide white hair and fixate on an "ideal" thin body type.
We're taught about portion sizes (because apparently one size fits all) and fasting windows and macros and calories and step-counts. We've normalized restricting food - "going on a diet," and following strict rules (because clearly we cannot be trusted).
Intuitive Eating asks that you trust yourself and reject the rules.
It involves paying close attention, giving yourself unconditional permission to eat, and staying connected to your body. It involves unlearning the harmful conditioning that keeps us oppressed (e.g.: patriarchy, white supremacy, capitalism/hustle culture and so on).
Practicing Intuitive Eating is an act of resistance.
Exercising your Intuitive Eating muscle allows you to:
get to know your body's sensations (and befriend them),
honor who you're becoming,
trust your inner expertise and seek answers within,
notice when and where you outsource your sovereignty,
build unwavering self-compassion,
take up more space,
and refocus on collective liberation.
I want us to be free.
This is my work now and I can't do this alone, so will you come with me?
Give me a hell yes in the comments!
(I won't be offended if you're an umm no).
Love always,
Mux
PS: In the coming weeks, I'll share more about how to begin the practice of Intuitive Eating, so keep an eye out. <3
Suggested reading:
Intuitive Eating, 4th edition: a revolutionary anti-diet approach (2020) by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: ten principles for nourishing a healthy relationship with food (2025) by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch