Karly Randolph Pitman lives, teaches and writes the path of growing human(kind)ness, a compassionate approach to heal overeating, sugar addiction, body hatred, and compulsive dieting. She founded First Ourselves in 2006 after struggling with bulimia, binge eating, sugar addiction, emotional eating, body hatred, and weight obsession for over 20 years.
Because of her background in psychology (she graduated magna cum laude with a BS in cognitive psychology from Vanderbilt University), and her personal experience as a sensitive woman plagued by eating disorders, she spent decades searching for a gentle way to heal food stuff. The result is her map for emotional healing, growing human(kind)ness.
How does growing human(kind)ness work?
In Karly’s experience, we heal our relationship with food by healing our relationship with ourselves. Most of us have a punishing, fearful, unkind relationship with our tender humanity – our emotions, thoughts, feelings, needs and our precious body itself.
Our primary work is healing this relationship into one that is forgiving, loving, merciful and kind. Growing human(kind)ness teaches the tools to a self loving relationship.
As we heal our relationship, we change how we relate to ourselves, how we think about ourselves, how we talk to ourselves, and how we care for ourselves. We feel loved and accepted. Our wounded parts become healed. We feel safe to heal, grow and change. This inner, emotional healing is what allows us to change our external behavior – the way we eat.
Karly Randolph Pitman
You’ve written lots of books and programs. Where do I start?
If you’re looking for help with sugar, begin with Karly’s first book, Overcoming Sugar Addiction, which shares her personal story of healing her sugar addiction. To remove the blocks that are keeping you stuck in sugar, follow up with the sugar workbook and CDs, Becoming Binge Free.
If you eat any food, sugar or not, to soothe your emotions, begin with Karly’s online audio program, Heal Overeating: Untangled, to uproot the emotional roots of overeating.
- Learn more about Karly at her website
- Learn more about Karly’s approach, growing human(kind)ness
- Hire Karly as a coach
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