by Nina Mills | 7 Feb, 2021 | Body Acceptance, Dismantling Diet Culture
HAES® stands for Health at Every Size and is a term trademarked by the Association of Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) as well as HAES Australia. At its core, HAES champions the right to pursue health and wellbeing in personally meaningful ways, no matter one’s...
by Nina Mills | 20 May, 2019 | Body Acceptance
Naming the villain rather than blaming the individual is one of the things writer and feminist marketing consultant Kelly Diels proposes needs to happen in order to shift current sleazy marketing tactics (scarcity, pain, the problem lies within the individual, the...
by Nina Mills | 8 Jan, 2019 | Body Acceptance, Dismantling Diet Culture
The desire to lose weight is strong, particularly at the start of the year when the messaging about fixing our bodies is incessant. If you have been interested in the non-diet approach AND are at the same time uncomfortable because you are feeling that persuasive tug...
by Nina Mills | 27 Dec, 2018 | Body Acceptance, Dismantling Diet Culture
I did a Google search for the most popular New Year’s Resolutions to prepare this article…do I even need to tell you what was on top of all of the lists I found?!?! Yep, you guessed it. Weight loss (+/- ‘getting in shape’ which we all know means the same thing)....
by Nina Mills | 4 Dec, 2018 | Body Acceptance, Body Respect
Instagram can be a massive time suck and it can be a black hole for comparisonitis. But it is also brimming with lots of amazing content pushing back against diet culture, the thin ideal and embracing body acceptance. So here is a roundup of some of my favourite posts...