Overeating

Becoming attached – do you judge your pain?

January 26, 2012 By Karly Randolph Pitman 6 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 [...]

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Softening my struggle

January 15, 2012 By Lauren-Lee 4 Comments

I am a loving mother, a sister, a daughter – a multi-faceted individual – but I somehow in the past I found myself disqualifying all the others parts of me and concentrating on the fact that I was a food addict. In my teens I hid from life by trying to eat my fears away [...]

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How attachment can heal overeating. For good.

January 11, 2012 By Karly Randolph Pitman 36 Comments

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 [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar, Weight loss Tagged With: attachment, attachment theory, binge eating, binge eating disorder, Dr. Gordon Neufeld, eating disorder, high sensitivity, highly sensitive person, John Bowlby, Overeating, sugar addiction

Loving where you’re at.

December 12, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 8 Comments

I’ve received hundreds of emails that all say this, in one form or another: I’m really struggling and I feel so ashamed. I’ve been there, too – in fact, I hit one of those walls this week. This time it came in the form of my old friend, anxiety. For a slew of reasons, my [...]

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Does intuitive eating lead to sugar addiction?

December 6, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 5 Comments

I hear from a lot of women who’ve struggled with intuitive eating. They try to listen to their bodies and eat what they want, only to find themselves in the throes of sugar addiction. As one dear woman I’ve been coaching put it, “I tried to let myself eat what I want. I eat cookies [...]

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Do you have your heart?

November 30, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 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) [...]

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Why I won’t punish myself after Thanksgiving

November 23, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 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 [...]

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How to quiet your inner food cop

November 7, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 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 [...]

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Are you highly sensitive and sugar addicted?

October 24, 2011 By Karly Randolph Pitman 6 Comments

If you’re someone who is both highly sensitive and sensitive to sugar (which may appear in your life as a susceptability to sugar addiction or overeating), you’re not alone. It’s a pairing that I see over and over again – and one I see in myself. Being highly sensitive means you pick up more from [...]

Filed Under: Overeating, Sugar Tagged With: ADD, anxiety, binge eating, binge eating disorder, food addiction, high sensitivity, Overeating, sugar addiction

It’s time to stop being a prisoner of diet dogma

October 7, 2011 By Guest Author Leave a Comment

My friend Jane Bernard has powerful things to say about releasing the diet mentality and trusting your own inner wisdom. I invite you to check out her new book, Am I Really Hungry?, a helpful guide to using your intuition to lose weight, stop overeating, and to give your body what it really needs. Read [...]

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