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Navigating Food & Body Image During The Holidays: Part 2

Hello again friends! Sam and Megan here to check in with you. We made it through Thanksgiving, phew. And now we collect ourselves again as we approach Christmas and the New Year and all the holiday parties that come with it.  If the holidays are stressful for you, it may be tempting to engage in […]

Navigating Food & Body Image During The Holidays: Part I

Hello friends! This is Megan writing to you alongside Sam. A psychotherapist and registered dietitian, both with a specialty and passion in eating disorders. This blog is for all of our clients and any of you who might also struggle with disordered eating and poor body image, so often made worse by the holiday season.  […]

Food & Body Image Therapy: An Interview

Psychotherapist, Lindsey Arens, and registered dietitian, Mary Radovich, are Elle’s experts in treating eating disorders and developing a healthier self image. Learn more about eating disorders and how Lindsey and Mary have made it their life’s mission to combat them. How do you work in tandem with your clientele? And why is this best practice?   […]

Our New Normal: Re-Opening at Elle

This week marks the return to some semblance of life before Covid hit in March of this year. For the past three months, the bustling hallways of yoga students, therapy clientele, and clinicians came to a dramatic halt. Everyone retreated home to makeshift offices and what was hopefully a secure Wifi connection. As therapists, we […]

Maintaining Mental & Physical Well-Being: Elle’s Response to COVID-19

I’m not going to lie, the past two weeks have been nothing short of rough. There’s a heaviness in the air—an eerie feeling in the streets—and pangs of uncertainty for the future and for the losses we are all enduring right now.  As a business owner and therapist, you think first and foremost for the […]

Health Isn’t All-Or-Nothing

By Mary Radovich Most of us know what we could be doing to be healthier, but feel stuck or don’t know where to start. The problem is, a lot of our ideas of what we “should” be doing are not based in the realities of our lives. Comparing goals to celebrities with nothing but time […]

Live Life Like You’re At Your Goal Weight

By Mary Radovich What are you putting off until the scale hits that magic number? Buying new clothes? Going on a beach vacation? Dating? How long have you been waiting to engage in life, instead of living it? What would it be like to give up that goal weight and learn to live life each […]

Why the Holiday Season is the Perfect Storm for Dieters and Binge Eaters

By Mary Radovich Surely you’ve seen messages like this floating around recently: “10 Steps to Prevent Holiday Weight Gain!”, “Lighten Up Holiday Recipes to Prevent Holiday Pounds From Piling On!”, “New Year, New You!” Every year at this time, disordered attitudes about eating and weight are everywhere you turn, being widely disseminated by news outlets, bloggers, […]

Going Keto Won’t Help You Love Your Body

By Mary Radovich Lowering your carbohydrate intake to the point where your body has to break down fat sounds like a legit way to lose weight. However, the Keto diet, (or Atkins 2018 as I like to call it) is not the magical weight loss method that many celebrities, trainers, and maybe your friends and […]

What Should I Eat?

By Mary Radovich Well…what do you want? What do you have? What are you doing? When is the next time you’ll eat? These are the things you should consider when deciding what to eat. Instead, many of us consider other things like “I heard this is bad,” or “this has too much sugar,” or “I […]