Welcoming every body

An anti-diet, pro-feminism space for women. Reject diet culture, reconnect with your body, realign with your values.

let’s be clear: the true intention of diet culture isn’t to help women—it’s to control them

Diet culture permeates every facet of life: social media, advertisements, movies, and even the doctor’s office—all promoting the notion, either implicitly or explicitly, that women must strive to become smaller.

We are told from the very beginning that our worth is measured by our appearance.

We’ve been conditioned by a patriarchal society to objectify and control ourselves on its behalf.

We’ve been taught to question our hunger, sweat out the calories, and loathe our bodies when our pre-Covid jeans won’t button.

But here’s why most women stay in diet culture: Despite the harm it causes, diet culture provides us with a semblance of community…

women aren’t oppressing themselves on purpose.

Here’s the thing:

It offers a shared goal, a topic for discussion, and a sense of camaraderie during life’s loneliest moments. Which makes it hard to leave because what if being outside of diet culture is even more lonely than being in it?

your one wild and precious life, lived to its fullest

What if I told you that you could stop dieting and…

  • Keep the friendships, the community, the feeling of being supported?

  • Be healthy, enjoy life, and (dare I say) appreciate your body?

  • Learn how to truly nourish yourself through Intuitive Eating?

  • End the cycle of body oppression for you and your family—for good?

you no longer allowed society’s
expectations of your body to determine how you live & what you’re worthy of?

What if…

hello, i’m lisa

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and the Founder of Embody Collective.

I spent the majority of my life as a chronic dieter, always trying to fit my body into a smaller, more agreeable shape and size; I joined diet challenges & communities to keep me “on track” and connected to others doing the same.

At the same time, I considered myself a fierce feminist (even in the days of my most disordered eating).

A Before & After picture changed it all.

While taking pictures to mark my progress on my quarantine diet, it dawned on me that my “before” picture may look like someone else’s “after…” that my pride in being smaller could be what made another woman question her worth.

I realized then that I was working with the system of oppression, not against it.

I decided in that moment—I would no longer be a part of anything that shames or oppresses women.

for every body

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