For most of my life, I’ve been an emotional eater, soothing myself with sugary, starchy, fatty foods. I’m highly sensitive, which means I feel everything – both the good and the bad – intensely. Living at 120 watts can feel vibrant and alive. It can also feel scary. Strong emotions are often uncomfortable, so I [...]
Your heart is big enough – Heal overeating through the power of relationship
August 9, 2011 By 10 Comments
We typically approach diet, health and weight loss as a science: eat less, lose weight. Exercise more, lose weight. In this mechanistic view, we view the body as a machine, where we do X to get Y. We focus on fixing the behavior (eating less junk food, less sugar; losing weight, and tempering our emotional [...]
Caring for anxiety without overeating
August 2, 2011 By 2 Comments
Healing prayer for overeaters
July 25, 2011 By 3 Comments
A different way of working with affirmations
July 12, 2011 By 6 Comments
When I first started working on my food and body image “stuff,” I used a lot of affirmations. I would say to myself things like, “I am healthy,” “I have a beautiful body,” or “I make healthy food choices.” The only problem was that while I affirmed what I wanted, another voice would immediately pop [...]
How to kindly change painful food habits
July 5, 2011 By 16 Comments
In this week’s support group call, we unpacked how to move from intention – wanting to do something, like eat less sugar, lose weight or eat more mindfully – into action – actually doing it. And here’s the kicker – we talked about how to change our habits without using punishment based, painful methods (white [...]
You are never, ever, ever, ever alone.
June 28, 2011 By 12 Comments
Stop a binge in its tracks with empathy
June 21, 2011 By 17 Comments
This evening I had one of those nights where all my intentions went out the window. I was feeling exhausted and overwhelmed – always a stressful combination for me – and was impatient, crabby and short with my children. The night ended with my daughter tearfully telling me, “I feel like you don’t even want [...]
You are right where you need to be.
June 14, 2011 By 8 Comments
When I started using using an “inside out” approach to heal overeating, one of my biggest challenges was anxiety. I was walking in new, unknown territory, and constantly wondered, “Is this normal?” One area where I got stumped was what I call the “success scale.” While I wasn’t obsessively weighing myself as in previous years, [...]
Healing a binge with unconditional love
May 31, 2011 By 7 Comments
We all have ways of caring for ourselves – coping mechanisms – that look really, really messy on the outside. This may include overeating or sugar bingeing. It’s easy to label and judge them as bad or wrong – “I should know better. I should be able to manage life differently.” This self judgment – [...]
