Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
June 16, 2025 No Comments
I recently gathered a handful of mom friends from my kids’ school for dinner the evening before Mother’s Day. I could sense one friend really wanted to cancel. Totally understandable…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
April 15, 2025 No Comments
How good is your B.S. detector when it comes to navigating nutrition and health information online? If you’re thinking, “not that good,” I think that humility can serve you well.…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
March 20, 2025 No Comments
Improving your relationship with food can dramatically improve your quality of life. Maybe you’re like “duh” or maybe you’re surprised to hear that. If you’re skeptical, take it from Dan…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
February 27, 2025 No Comments
My husband Ben was staring vacantly out at nothing in particular while standing in our kitchen as I was preparing dinner one evening and said, “We made a mistake buying…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
January 16, 2025 No Comments
Are you tired of the new year, new you messages yet? Apparently the second Friday in January is known as “Quitter’s Day” when most people supposedly quit their New Year’s…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
October 16, 2024 No Comments
Like Oprah and many of my colleagues, I love a good aha moment. You can see it on someone’s face: that moment when eyes widen, dots are connected and something…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
October 25, 2023 No Comments
I’ve been talking to lots of clients lately about their body budget, a concept I learned from Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, one of the most cited researchers in the world.…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
June 5, 2023 1 Comment
It took me six years to complete an 11-month yoga certification training. My mind intellectually knew the importance of having a growth mindset (mistakes are part of learning, the important…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
May 10, 2022 No Comments
A few summers ago, our family was finishing up dinner outside, everyone done eating except my then 4-year old son. I remember this exchange with him: Levi: Mom, what’s that…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
October 1, 2021 No Comments
In those early weeks and months of parenthood, I felt a new, unfamiliar vulnerability in my bones that I didn’t have language for, and coped by reading endless parenting books.…
Minh-Hai Alex, MS, RDN, RYT
August 30, 2021 No Comments
I saw this on social media recently and can definitely relate to the sentiment with the new school year approaching: I have two kids, ages 6 and 4, and when…
