I got an email from a reader last week with a question about the emotional vs. physical aspects of healing a sugar addiction. In 2008 she’d read my book, Overcoming Sugar Addiction, and was curious about the updated, 3rd edition, where I added more … [Read more]
Neediness is not a character flaw
One of the themes that I see coming up for people in their relationship with food is the mind's fight against what we need. Whether it's needing certain habits to support us in our daily lives, or needing to follow a way of eating, when we think … [Read more]
How compassion helps you move from “knowing” to “doing”
On a recent support call, we talked about this common challenge: how to move from, "I should do x,y,z, because that would be smart, and benefit me," to actually doing x,y,z ... to making changes. This is an important question, and one that many … [Read more]
The ‘last 10 pounds’ – the vulnerability that lies underneath weight
Many of us have had a difficult relationship with the "last 10 pounds" -- they often seem like an elusive mirage. The mind wants to shed just a bit more weight before we can rest in our bodies! The following text is from a small group coaching … [Read more]
What do I eat on a low sugar diet?
This is an example of a typical lunch at my house – a grilled burger with a cucumber and red pepper salad with an olive oil and apple cider vinegar dressing, Bubbie’s pickles (they’re a fermented food and delicious!), steamed … [Read more]
Unhooking from the “craving self”
Underneath the urge for food, what you’re really needing (at the deepest level) is love. The key to healing a pattern of overeating, sugar bingeing, or emotional eating is radical: it’s to become intimate with it. Rather than turning from our … [Read more]
Befriending hunger with compassion
When you're trying to heal painful behaviors with food, your hunger - your ground floor, human need for food - can bring up a lot of mixed feelings. Your hunger may bring up anxiety, fear, apprehension, doubt, hope, joy, desire, longing or confusion … [Read more]
Breaking free from the “broken self” trance
One of the most painful results of struggling with any form of suffering is how we identify with it. While labels can be helpful - ah, so this is what I'm facing - they can also be harmful. They become harmful when they become the way we define … [Read more]
The alchemy of self acceptance – how acceptance makes change possible
I often talk about how you can change your relationship with sugar through loving relationship itself: kindness, compassion, connection, and acceptance. Many people email or ask me, "But how? How does being accepting or kind to myself help me change … [Read more]
Softening your need to overeat
Overeating, binge eating, or sugar addiction are not character flaws, but misguided attempts to care for unmet needs: in particular, basic needs for safety, connection/attachment, unconditional love, mirroring, emotional validation and … [Read more]
Where unconditional love and weight loss intersect
I'm going to use the d word today - yes, diet. In many circles, diet is considered a dirty word, as all diets or weight loss programs are lumped into a category of "bad." I have a different way of looking at weight loss programs, and how a … [Read more]
The healing power of loving your overeating self
What if your "overeating self" had wisdom to share? In this month and week of love, I've been thinking about unconditional love, and what it would mean to love every part of ourselves - including those parts that we most dislike. Yes, this … [Read more]
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