I’ve been speaking to lots of women this week. It’s January. They’re trying to start the year positively – to finally heal this “food thing” (or sugar thing) for good. These are bright, kind, loving, perceptive women. Women who’ve often been through incredible, heartbreaking challenges in their lives – challenges they’ve handled with remarkable grace [...]
Becoming attached – do you judge your pain?
January 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
I recently shared my theory that refuge – a deep rooted feeling of belonging, safety and attachment – is what creates the foundation for growth, maturity, and change with food. I heard from so many tender men and women who resonated with that theory – and who wondered, Yes, but how?? How do I create [...]
Softening my struggle
January 15, 2012 By 4 Comments
How to respond to family scrutiny about weight
December 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You may find yourself gathering with friends and family this weekend for Christmas. There’s something about being around people that you don’t see everyday that prompts a desire to put your best foot forward. You want to be seen for who you really are, and you want to belong – to be loved and accepted. [...]
Unsweetened me.
December 19, 2011 By 6 Comments
I’ve been playing with sugar recently. Sharing the holidays with friends and loved-ones often spurs the desire to “relax” into sugar. I tell myself, as I reach for the ice cream with spoon in hand, that I deserve a little treat. I know that with just a little “hit” of that sweet goodness my mind will relax, the tension [...]
Loving where you’re at.
December 12, 2011 By 8 Comments
Does intuitive eating lead to sugar addiction?
December 6, 2011 By 5 Comments
Do you have your heart?
November 30, 2011 By 11 Comments
One of the most persnickity challenges to healing are the internal obstacles that keep us from following through on our intentions – the doubt, resistance, the “I don’t want to” and “I don’t feel like it” feelings that get in the way of change. In Heal Overeating: Untangled* (and in these articles here and here) [...]
Why I won’t punish myself after Thanksgiving
November 23, 2011 By 10 Comments
I was at my yoga studio yesterday evening and was asking about their schedule for the rest of the week, a holiday week here in the states. As they’re closed for Thanksgiving, the girls at the front desk suggested I try the Friday “burn the bird” class. My body immediately tensed and tightened, and I [...]
How to quiet your inner food cop
November 7, 2011 By 12 Comments
I talk with hundreds of men and women who are healing from emotional eating, chronic dieting, binge eating and sugar addiction. And there’s one crucial, essential place where everyone – including me – gets stuck. It’s this: There’s a voice – a chorus of voices – that nags at them all day. This voice is [...]
