Create a more compassionate relationship with yourself
There can be a snide competition between women, where we allow other women to be beautiful .... to a point. Other women can be pretty, as long as they're not too pretty. A woman can be beautiful, but if she's also smart, organized, and a great mom? … [Read more]
Sugar addiction held me in its grip for years, keeping me isolated from the world. When I stopped eating sugar, I gained better health. But, more importantly, I found self respect. The pain of negative habits isn't solely from the habits themselves. … [Read more]
After you've binged on sugar or food, you may feel physically uncomfortable: bloated, overly full, gassy, or irritable. You may have a headache, feel a sugar buzz, feel wired, or sleepy. You may have strong sugar or salt cravings. Beyond how your … [Read more]
10 steps to fewer sugar cravings Are you someone who can’t stop eating sugar, once you start? Are you plagued with constant food cravings, especially for sweets or refined carbohydrates, such as pasta, bread or potato chips? I understand! I … [Read more]
This is what I ate for lunch today: a large salad with lots of different greens, tomatoes, red peppers, carrots, oven roasted cashews, bacon slices, sliced up chicken from a roasted chicken, fermented pickles, cucumbers, and an olive oil and apple … [Read more]
You could be eating sugar in your salad dressing, spaghetti sauce, cough syrup, crackers, and barbeque sauce, without even being aware of it. One aspect of healing your relationship with sugar is uncovering the hidden sources of sugar in your diet. … [Read more]
If you want to stop sugar binges, start by reading my book, Overcoming Sugar Addiction. Acclaimed for its combination of personal story and step-by-step encouragement for how you can make the shift, this book is a great place to start. The reading … [Read more]
I wrote this blog post in 2006, when I was beginning to write about my journey with sugar. At the time, I'd been a sugar addict for nearly 20 years and had also struggled with equal years of eating disorders. During this stage of my journey, I had … [Read more]
It is a falsehood that body hatred is the realm of the obese, the overweight, or the ugly. I am none of those things. I'm a pretty woman. I'm a size 8. And yet I've hated my body for most of my life. Even as a little girl, I felt the first … [Read more]
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."-Gandhi We all have stuff: the lessons and stumbling blocks that reoccur throughout our lives. If you're like me, you may have spent considerable energy burying your stuff, in the hopes that a … [Read more]
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