How attachment can heal overeating. For good.

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 [...]

Do you have your heart?

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) [...]

Are you highly sensitive and sugar addicted?

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 [...]

Caring for anxiety without overeating

I went walking this morning in new socks. They’re super thin – great for the heat – but very slippery. I began my walk feeling uncertain and tentative, like my feet weren’t supported on the ground. I felt like my feet would slip out from under me at any moment. I thought about this metaphor [...]