Mannequin Mayhem

It seems like the whole world has something to say about the larger bodied Nike mannequin, so I just had to put in my two cents as well! I am not sure if it is because I live in a body positive bubble, but it sure seems that the voices demanding inclusivity and an end...

The Fast Track Trial Pilot Study

It’s no secret that I am more than a little fired up about the Fast Track to Health trial, a weight loss experiment which is recruiting Australian teenagers for a gruelling year long semi-starvation diet. An article in The Age newspaper about the Fast Track...

Incredibly Stupid Ways to Melt Belly Fat

In diet culture, the competition to sell us stupid weight loss products is fierce. Weight loss is a massive industry, worth an absolute mozza to entrepeneurs keen to take advantage of our cultural obsession with thinness. It’s a tough sell, because literally no weight...

Fierce Compassion

I have just returned from a week on retreat with some of the wonderful members of our UNTRAPPED online program. 22 of us – members and guides – spent the week together at the lovely Gymea eco-resort, in far Northern New South Wales. It was a lush, tropical...

​The Fast Track Trial Part 3: Pushback

Something incredible has happened since I last wrote to you. I started a change.org petition to bring attention to the Fast Track trial and its dastardly plan to starve our teenagers. And it went viral – as I write, the signatures stand at almost 20,000 people...

Starving Our Teenagers: Update on The Fast Track Trial

A little while ago I posted about the horrendous “Fast Track to Health” trial, where plans are being finalised to make Australian teenagers intermittently starve themselves in the name of research. These unfortunate kids will be compared to another group of teens...