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 [...]
5 steps to get back on track after eating sugar
November 1, 2011 By 12 Comments
I hear from so many dedicated people who are trying to give up sugar – they recognize they’re addicted to sugar and are doing the necessary steps to stop eating it. They may be eating a sugar free diet for weeks, months or even years. And then they find themselves eating sugar again. They feel [...]
It’s time to stop being a prisoner of diet dogma
October 7, 2011 By 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 [...]
Loving myself unconditionally
September 21, 2011 By 6 Comments
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
