Samantha Skelly
Contributor

American Addiction Centers (AAC)
American Addiction Centers (AAC) is the leading provider for addiction treatment across the U.S. specializing in evidence-based treatment and mental health care.
At AAC, we aim to treat the whole person, which includes those with co-occurring mental health disorders, physical illnesses, or social issues related to addiction treatment.
About
Samantha Skelly is the founder of Hungry for Happiness, a movement to support women around the world who are suffering from disordered eating and body image issues. She is an award-winning, sought out international speaker who delivers inspirational presentations to empower those who struggle with the relationship they have to food and their bodies.
Samantha has appeared on Global TV, Shaw, NBC and CBC to share her mission on an international platform. Hungry for Happiness creates online accessible and affordable recovery resources to those who are suffering in silence. Samantha was awarded ‘Top 24 under 24’ in September 2013. In 2014, she was a finalist as the ‘Best Emerging Entrepreneur’ by Small Business BC.
Samantha Skelly aims to create a disruptive company in the eating disorder recovery space. Her vision is to create the largest and most impactful online resource to support those whose lives are negatively affected by issues with food and their bodies.
Credentials
- ICF Master Practitioner
Authored (51 Posts)
- Letting Go of the Need for Control
- Overcoming the Victim Mentality
- Overcoming Emotional Resistance
- Becoming Aware of Your Body's Wants and Needs
- Intuitive Eating as a Means to Heal Binge Eating
- Meditation's Role in Reducing Binge Eating
- 5 Tips to Help When You're Struggling with Recovery
- The Stages of Loving Your Body
- What Do You Need to Release?
- Aid Your Recovery Through Self-Connection
- Celebrate Your Progress
- Rules vs. Boundaries
- How to Avoid Self-Sabotage
- Aligning Mind & Body
- Trusting Yourself with Food
- Rewrite Your Story
- You Need to Value Your Mental Health Over Your Ideal Body
- How Willpower Can Derail Your Recovery
- Discover & Overcome Your Binge Eating Triggers
- 5 Ways to Shift Negative Body Image & Start to Love Your Body
- What Drives Your Decisions?
- The Most Important Relationship Is The One You Have with Yourself
- Stop Letting Your Fear Keep You Stuck
- Body Acceptance Is More Important Than Body Positivity
- Disordered Eating: How the Diet Industry Perpetuates Your Struggle
- Structured Self vs. Fluid Self: How Fear Drives Us to Cling to Negative Identities
- Visceral Intelligence: How to Hone This Skill for a Healthy Mind and Body
- Community is Key to Overcoming Disordered Eating
- When Self-Help Hurts
- Self-Acceptance is Key to Overcoming Emotional Eating
- Practicing the Art of Forgiveness
- It's Time: You Deserve to Raise Your Standards
- The Very Real Dangers of a Scarcity Mindset
- Perfectionism: The Thief of Joy
- Why Changing Your Habits Will Never Bring Lasting Results
- The Dark Side of Your Spiritual Practice
- Disordered Eating: Let's Talk About Men for a Minute
- How Breathing Can Heal Your Relationship With Your Body
- How Not Living in Your Body Creates Loneliness
- You Have to Believe Choice Can End Suffering
- 3 Signs That Your Loved One Is Suffering from Disordered Eating
- How Logic Without Integration Will Create Chaos
- You Can’t Hate Something You Want to Heal
- The Unspoken Links Between Sexual Trauma and Binge Eating
- ‘Time’ is No Longer an Excuse Not to Meditate
- Why ‘Hating Yourself Happy’ is a Broken Model
- How Body Shaming Keeps You Overweight, Plus 3 Unconventional Ways to Release That Weight
- The #1 Thing Keeping Binge Eaters Stuck
- How Perfectionism Spun Me Into an Eating Disorder
- 3 Things Doctors Don’t Tell You About Binge Eating
- You’re Worthless: I Can’t Believe You Can’t Resist the Brownies - You’re a Total Failure
American Addiction Centers (AAC)
American Addiction Centers (AAC) is the leading provider for addiction treatment across the U.S. specializing in evidence-based treatment and mental health care.
At AAC, we aim to treat the whole person, which includes those with co-occurring mental health disorders, physical illnesses, or social issues related to addiction treatment.