Kate Wicker

Storyteller & Speaker

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The best detox ever!

For me, it’s more like “Die negative thoughts die! Die hate die! Die every single meal plan that demonizes food and calories die! Die body comparisons die! Die fat phobic culture die! Die “New Year, New You” propaganda die! I’m just fine with my good-enough self. Thank you very much. I received an email yesterdayRead the whole post >>

· December 30, 2017 · Tagged With: Body Image, Encouragement for Moms, Getting Past Perfect, Good Enough, Intuitive Eating, spiritual resolutions, Weightless, Women's Issues · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

The best way to gain weight is to try to lose it: my path toward embracing intuitive eating

I haven’t written about food or my body image in ages. Sadly, that’s not because it hasn’t been on my mind. Just last week I was at an early morning barre class and I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and loathed the way I looked. But before I could fall down aRead the whole post >>

· November 20, 2017 · Tagged With: Body Image, Diet Culture, Eating Disorders, Intuitive Eating, Weightless · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Mirror, mirror on the wall…

I recently had the pleasure of having Ellyn, my 2 ½-year-old niece, over for the afternoon. I gave my brother two bags of hand-me-down clothing for her, and Ellyn wanted to have an impromptu fashion show. She fell in love with a lacy number that was a flower girl dress for Mary. I helped herRead the whole post >>

· April 7, 2017 · Tagged With: Body Image, Lent · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

Pure Barre’s Feel Good Month & My Personal Testimony

Pure Barre of Athens has launched a Feel Good campaign during the month of April. They invited me to share my testimony about my fitness journey and how I’ve ended up as a Pure Barre devotee. They’ve also invited me to have copies of my book Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body at an eventRead the whole post >>

· April 11, 2016 · Tagged With: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Pure Barre, Running · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

A valediction to skinny jeans

Dear Skinny Jeans, I haven’t forgotten about you although I am working on it and hopefully at the end of this letter my farewell to you will be complete. For some reason, every time I open my closet lately I hear your siren song calling my name, taunting me and telling me that life wasRead the whole post >>

· May 12, 2015 · Tagged With: Body Image, Eating Disorders, Tough Days · Filed Under: Kate's Blog

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Hi, I’m Kate

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood  and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.

 

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”

―Flannery O'Connor

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