Weight Watchers, who are now rebranded as WW, Wellness that Works have launched a new app under this new branding for children as young as eight... as Young. As. Eight. It's marketed as a potential solution to the childhood obesity crisis in America. However, a lot, and by a lot I mean, basically everyone who…
Continue reading ➞ What’s Wrong With WW Kurbo’s Approach to Childhood Obesity?
I just spent the weekend at Lindesfarne festival as part of the Logi Fire-walking crew. The leading man on this epic journey is John, has become a fire-walking instructor and gave up sheep farming after a mental break down, and now facilitates fire-walks for a living. He says that fire-walking found him when he was…
Continue reading ➞ Stepping on Hot Coals to Empowerment with Logi Firewalking
What does it mean to respect our bodies? If you follow me on Instagram, then you may be painfully aware that I've developed infection action a week before Ride 100. In the end, I realised the right thing to do for my self and my body, was to defer until 2020 and this got me…
Continue reading ➞ What Respecting Your Body Might Look Like
If you are worried about your relationship with food, who do you turn to? Your mates? Your GP? Or maybe you might turn to many of the numerous blogs, instagram pages and podcasts out there #wellness? Turning to influencers to make sense, I mean afterall, they're flawless skin, pert tits, perky bum and six pack…
Continue reading ➞ Beat: The UK’s Charity Antidote to Wellness Wankery and Eating Disorders
When I tell people that I play rugby I get a number of responses again and again, "oh goodness!", a dropped jaw, or a number of questions about where, when and quite frankly, why? We even ask each other when we meet new players because for women and girls, rugby isn't the most obvious sport…
Continue reading ➞ 15 Things I Learned In My First Rugby Season
Tanya Gold has really caused a stir with her article for The Telegraph titled, 'Obese Mannequins Are Selling Women a Dangerous Lie'. Now I could go on a highly charged rant of vitriol, however I feel that this has been taken care of online. With a clear and significant backlash to this article, it's dubious…
Continue reading ➞ The Nike Mannequin, The Telegraph, and The Nonsense In-Between
At face value the body positivity movement may seem like the perfect antidote to unrealistic body goals, the continuous merry-go-round of dieting and the perpetuation of thin ideals from the fashion, media, fitness, retail, and industry that uses models and their bodies to promote products and ideologies. The incessant nature is that although these images,…
Continue reading ➞ Why Loving Your Reflection is Just Another Unrealistic Expectation
