From TikTok trends to diet ads dressed up as “wellness,” it’s easy to feel like your body is something to fix.

At MWC, we offer therapy for body image and disordered eating in Maryland and Pennsylvania to help you unlearn those harmful messages and reconnect with yourself—on your terms.

The Diet Industry Profits from Your Insecurity

Let’s be honest: the diet industry doesn’t want you to feel at peace in your body. It thrives on creating fear, confusion, and dissatisfaction so it can sell you “solutions.”

• From SnackWell’s and Atkins to Ozempic and “clean eating,” the message has stayed the same: shrink yourself.

• Social media is the new tabloid: pushing perfection and punishing difference. Remember that one photo of Jessica Simpson which we were all told was the worst a woman could possibly look?

• Women are taught that thinness equals worthiness and that their bodies exist to please, produce, or perform.

But your body is not a business model.
It’s your home.

Signs You May Be Struggling With Body Image or Disordered Eating

You don’t need a formal diagnosis to deserve support. If you’re experiencing any of the following, therapy can help:

• Constant body checking or comparison

• Anxiety around food, eating in public, or social meals

• Guilt after eating or feeling “good” for restricting

• Obsession with exercise, weight, or “clean” eating

• Using food or restriction as a way to cope

• Feeling like your worth is tied to your body’s size or shape

• Chronic dieting or “yo-yo” eating patterns

• Avoiding mirrors, photos, or your reflection

Our Approach: Body Respect and Food Freedom

We practice through a Health at Every Size (HAES), intuitive eating, and body neutrality lens, which means:

• All bodies are welcome and worthy: no exceptions.

• Food is not the enemy. It’s fuel, culture, connection, and joy.

• Movement is for joy and vitality, not punishment or weight loss.

• Health includes mental, emotional, and physical well-being, not just appearance.

This is about partnering with your body, not fighting it.

What Therapy Can Look Like

In our work together, we can:

• Unpack the roots of body shame, comparison, or disordered behaviors

• Explore your relationship with food and build more flexible habits

• Challenge societal messages and internalized weight stigma

• Reconnect with joy, rest, pleasure, and peace

• Cultivate self-compassion and resilience

• Move toward freedom from the scale, the mirror, and the “shoulds”

You don’t have to earn your worth. You already have it.

Your body is not the problem. It never was.

Our culture keeps women distracted with their bodies so they don’t have time to think about who they are or what they want out of life. That ends here. There are so many more important and interesting things about a woman than what her body looks like.

Here, we center that.

Here, food is a source of nutrients, nourishment, joy, social connection, culture, and self expression.

Here, exercise and movement can be free, fun, and restorative.

Here, health and wellness include consumption of calories and nutrients, water intake, and prioritization of sleep, stress reduction, movement, and rest. (psst: these things don’t cost anything, which is why they aren’t being sold to you). 

The next time you criticize yourself, I want you to ask yourself: “who benefits from me treating myself this way?”