Food is a very easy way to offer ourselves pleasure. This is especially true for those who easily attune to or care for others' needs but minimize their own. Food can also serve as an acceptable form of pleasure if you don't feel that you can … [Read more]
Moving from the head to the heart
What does it mean to move from the head to the heart? And how does this movement heal separation, and foster healing, and hope? When we look at overeating through the head, we tend to fixate on behavior, "shoulds," and "doing it right." We … [Read more]
Bring love into your relationship with food
What does it mean to bring love into your relationship with food? This is an idea that I explore in The Heart of Food, our foundational course, and in this video - a sample from the course materials. In this video, we'll explore this idea and … [Read more]
The anxiety that lives underneath overeating
What’s behind overeating? What’s behind the fixation on food? If you keep looking behind and behind and behind, you’ll find it isn’t really about the sugar or food at all. For years, I approached the holidays with anticipatory dread. I dreaded the … [Read more]
How to respond to relational hunger
Thanksgiving marks the official start of the holiday season in the United States, where I live. For many of you, the holiday season has already begun. It's a time of year that can be challenging for many, and bring up lots of mixed feelings around … [Read more]
A binge is merely a cry for connection
Cravings and binges are simply cries for connection. Yesterday, as I sat down to write, I noticed that I was feeling off. The words weren’t flowing, and I felt dry. Quickly, an impulse popped into my head – “Go and check Facebook.” I found myself … [Read more]
When spiritual bypassing leads to sugar bingeing
When we look inside and listen deeply to our relationship with sugar, we often find that our internal conflict with sugar isn’t necessarily about sugar at all. Rather, our desire for sugar is a consequence of how we relate to our innate human needs … [Read more]
The deeper story: how sugar is calling you
We are the ones we have been waiting for.” – Hopi Elder Many people find it surprising – and a bit of playful irony – that when they explore their relationship with sugar, they find that their real “issue” … [Read more]
How to strengthen the inner voice to say no to sugar
To eat less sugar, replace the false refuge that you find in sugar with an internal refuge – a nest of safety that brings the safety, security and soothing you desire. It’s human and natural to seek out sources of comfort, connection and … [Read more]
The necessary and beautiful labor
When you struggle with food, it can bring up so many feelings of shame. The very struggle can feel wrong, as something to be eradicated. So you feel guilty for overeating and guilty for struggling to heal the overeating. What if, instead, you … [Read more]
The healing gift of “neediness”
Several years ago, a few months into a long Montana winter, my friend Rob taught me how to play cribbage. Cribbage was a tradition at our small town’s coffee shop, a way to enjoy the cold winter days, and Rob taught everyone who walked through … [Read more]
Caring for the losses that lie underneath overeating
http://fiveoceanspress.wistia.com/medias/3293wtuhfw?embedType=seo&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=1024 Undigested grief and loss are often what lie underneath stuck patterns of overeating. These losses can stem from childhood or adulthood. … [Read more]
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