I write Body-Peaceยฎ Poems because the predominant cultural conversation about our body and food is not adequate.

We’re told we either have “good” bodies or bodies that need “fixing”. We’re either being “good” or “bad”. We’re either doing it “right” or “wrong” – yuck…that doesn’t help us at all!

Our relationship with food & body needs more nuance, authenticity and depth. And the conversations we have about our food and body need that level of depth as well.

My Body-Peaceยฎ Poems are my way of unpacking how we feel and think about our food and body, so that we can step into a more trusting, respectful and compassionate relationship with ourselves.ย  ย 

My words (below) are are here for you to find an authentic and more supportive relationship with your body and food. Feel free to share them (with attribution please) and I love hearing how my words impact people, so please be in touch and let me know your thoughts and feelings.

Diet-Math

DIET-MATH The wedding is in 6 weeksโฃ If I lose 2 pounds a week โฃ Iโ€™ll be 12 pounds thinner on the...

She Let Herself Go

โฃโฃHe said: โ€œYouโ€™ve let yourself goโ€ โฃโฃโฃโฃYES. I have let myself goโฃโฃโฃโฃI stopped wearing SpanksโฃโฃI...

Am I Bigger Than Her?

Am I bigger than her?โฃโฃI ask my husbandโฃโฃAs a woman passes on the streetโฃโฃโฃโฃAm I bigger than...

DID YOU PACK YOUR OWN BAG?

๐ƒ๐ˆ๐ƒ ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐๐€๐‚๐Š ๐˜๐Ž๐”๐‘ ๐Ž๐—ช๐ ๐๐€๐†?โฃโฃโฃโฃYouโ€™re traveling to another countryโฃโฃThe security officer...

START AGAIN

Resolutions are passรฉโฃโฃWell, at least Iโ€™m over themโฃโฃโฃโฃBut that desireโฃโฃTo wipe the slate...

The Diet Promise

She whispered in my earโฃโฃAll your dreams will come true if youโ€™re thinโฃโฃโฃโฃShe...

TELL ME WHAT TO EAT

TELL ME WHAT TO EATโฃโฃShe saidโ€ฆโฃJust tell me what to...

MY ADHD IS EATING

๐Œ๐˜ ๐€๐ƒ๐‡๐ƒ ๐ˆ๐’ ๐„๐€๐“๐ˆ๐๐†โฃโฃโฃโฃItโ€™s a train stationโฃโฃA train constantly leaving the stationโฃโฃActually 10...

MY COVID BODY

I've had so many My covid body Padded for survival My summer body Strong from swimming My mom body...

MY NO

Before I can say
The words…

๐“๐‡๐„ ๐‚๐Ž๐Ž๐Š๐ˆ๐„๐’ ๐€๐‘๐„ ๐‚๐€๐‹๐‹๐ˆ๐๐†โฃ

๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐žโฃ

๐“๐‡๐„ ๐‡๐”๐๐†๐„๐‘ ๐Ž๐… ๐‹๐Ž๐๐„๐‹๐ˆ๐๐„๐’๐’โฃ

๐’๐ก๐ž ๐ค๐ž๐ž๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ญ ๐›๐š๐ฒ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฒโฃโฃ๐—ช๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ณ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌโฃโฃ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ž๐š๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌโฃโฃโฃโฃ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ...

๐ˆ ๐€๐Œ ๐๐Ž๐“ ๐Œ๐˜ ๐๐”๐Œ๐๐„๐‘๐’โฃ

๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ฌ โฃ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฌโฃ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ โฃ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌโฃ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐žโฃโฃ๐ˆโ€™๐ฏ๐ž...

๐ˆ ๐“๐€๐‹๐Š ๐“๐Ž ๐Œ๐˜ ๐…๐‹๐Ž๐—ช๐„๐‘๐’ ๐๐„๐“๐“๐„๐‘ ๐“๐‡๐€๐ ๐ˆ ๐“๐€๐‹๐Š ๐“๐Ž ๐Œ๐˜ ๐๐Ž๐ƒ๐˜โฃ

๐‡๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅโฃ
๐—ช๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ!โฃ

THE COOKIE MONSTER

๐’๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐ž๐ซโฃโฃ
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซโฃโฃ
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐œ๐จ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œโฃโฃ
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐› ๐š๐๐๐ข๐œ๐ญโฃโฃ

Eating Our Sadness

Sadnessโฃ
Disappointmentโฃ
Lossโฃ
โฃ
Sits in our bellyโฃ
Undigestibleโฃ

STRESS EATING

Stress eatingโฃโฃWe say it like itโ€™s a bad wordโฃโฃโ€œI was stress eatingโ€โฃโฃFollowed by self-blame and...

DEAR WILLPOWER

You said youโ€™d be there for meโฃ
You said youโ€™d stop me before I finished eating the whole thingโฃ
You said youโ€™d take me to the gym in the morningโฃ