Eating well is more than the food you put on your fork. Here are five wishes for my clients when it comes to their relationships with food.

My recent vacation to Ireland had all the vagal toning elements and practices to sustain such a life. Let’s review!

My recent vacation to Ireland had all the vagal toning elements and practices to sustain such a life. Let’s review!

My recent vacation to Ireland had all the vagal toning elements and practices to sustain such a life. Let’s review!

How do we make our body feel safe? Here are my top 10 ways to help the body feel safe through self-care.

How do we make our body feel safe? Here are my top 10 ways to help the body feel safe through self-care.

How do we make our body feel safe? Here are my top 10 ways to help the body feel safe through self-care.

My Christmas took an unexpected journey with cancelled flights and an extended stay at a Country Inn. Read more about my lesson in gratitude.

In today’s blog post, I want to share five tips to help you feel well throughout the holidays. Wishing you a merry Christmas!

As a Polyvagal Informed Therapist, I see the world through a lens of safety. Here are three simple steps for a "safe" and connected holiday season.

Harm reduction involves employing limits and boundaries that keep us out of the weeds when we are the most vulnerable to our habitual brain.

In recent years, I have encountered a subgroup of individuals in my eating disorder practice who have binge eating disorder and struggle with relentless food cravings that lead to loss of control.

Check out my latest podcast with Kirsten Hunneyball, host of Curious About Recovery. We talk about my personal experience as well as the important role of love in binge eating disorders.

As a certified eating disorder specialist who uses body-based conceptualization and polyvagal-informed therapies, I now see eating disorder symptoms more clearly and compassionately.

I recently hit a significant milestone on my Peloton bike: 500 rides. Impressive? Maybe but not for the reason you think. You see, I purchased the bike six years ago. Oh. 

Today, I want to share some reflections on what I’ve learned throughout my 30-year career in eating disorders treatment. As I do so, I also want to take a closer look at this year’s theme for NEDAwarenessWeek and consider some ways we can work together to See the Change, Be the Change.

Our bodies were meant for love. We are hardwired for connection; as it turns out, it’s a biological imperative. Through an evolutionary lens, it ensures the perpetuation of the species through reproduction and safety. Taking a closer look into our neurobiology, our health and happiness depend on it.

Welcome Kari Anderson to our podcast! You can learn all about her at www.myeatingdoctor.com. She has also written a book and has a new one coming this year. Kari, Jill and Meredith discuss

Welcome Kari Anderson to our podcast! You can learn all about her at www.myeatingdoctor.com. She has also written a book and has a new one coming this year. Kari, Jill and Meredith discuss

Did you have friends or family show up for Thanksgiving or some other dinner party with their own Tupperware containers of food? And it was not a potluck! “Dietary restrictions” are a trend on the rise.

Many clients come to me with the triad of abdominal weight gain, binge eating, and depressive symptoms. Having these symptoms for a long time often leads to chronic conditions

Escaping the record-breaking stretch of 110 plus degree days in Phoenix, Arizona, my husband and I took to the foothills of the Bradshaw Mountains in Prescott, Arizona’s "mile-high" city

I recently attended a wedding in Sedona, Arizona, a majestic place with red rock mountain formations and blue-sky vistas. The wedding party was limited to 10 people and held outdoors due to the “new normal” of social distancing.

Has isolation changed your relationship with food? There have been a lot of fat memes circulating on social media since shelter-in-place orders have taken effect. They fall into the offensive category for me, but I would like to focus on the

Kari Anderson joins us for another podcast on the subject of desire for weight loss or for clients who call themselves compulsive

Welcome Kari Anderson to our podcast! You can learn all about her at www.myeatingdoctor.com. She has also written a book and has a new one coming this year. Kari, Jill and Meredith discuss

Last night, "This is Us" had its winter premiere on NBC. Fans have been waiting breathlessly for two months to find out how Kate, the character played by Chrissy Metz,

This week in problematic health news: The Royal Society for Public Health in the United Kingdom has called for food makers to add Physical Activity Calorie Equivalents

By now you’ve no doubt heard about Peloton’s infamous “Peloton wife” holiday ad. Maybe you saw the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment about it,