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Body Acceptance, Diet Recovery, Eating Disorder Recovery, Jewish Culture, Mental Health, Spirituality
A Song About Body Acceptance
Last week I released a song called “Rocky Mountains” about body acceptance, and I wanted to share some of the backstory. I survived an eating disorder in my early 20s. I’d been to outpatient treatment, and I got better, but something was keeping me from fully recovering. My relationship with food and my body was still fraught for many…
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3 Reasons to Eat on Yom Kippur
If you’re in recovery from an eating disorder, from dieting, or are healing your relationship with food, it’s okay to eat on Yom Kippur – and you don’t need a rabbi to tell you that, because you have autonomy over your own body and decisions. For me, fasting is a destructive reminder of the days I’d starve myself. In…
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Enjoying food is a form of resistance
I’ve always loved food. Gratefully, I never missed a meal growing up. My family is equally passionate about food; we’d plan our days around meals, talk about what’s for dinner before we even had breakfast, and geek out over the delicious pastries my dad frequently brought home after work. I think, at least partly, that it’s a cultural thing;…
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Be Real. Kvetch More.
Sometimes I wonder if I complain too much, or if I’m too negative. There’s definitely a fair amount of kvetching (complaining) in the Jewish world. We worry. We’re on edge. I think it’s probably embedded in us after centuries of persecution. It’s all over our comedy. It’s even in the Torah; the Hebrews complained that things weren’t as…
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Why does my Jewish grandmother want me to eat so much?
“Eat! You’re too skinny!” “Fill your plate!” “Have some more” (when the plate is only half empty) It’s no secret that Jewish mothers and grandmothers like to feed people, especially their families; the above are actually direct quotes from my paternal grandmother, of blessed memory (also pictured here). My mom was a bit like this too. She loved me…
