These past few weeks I've been leading a group through the When Food is Your Mother class, where we're exploring how food can become a substitute 'mother,' a refuge of comfort, support or safety. Human relationships, families, and communities are … [Read more]
Praising the blossom and the seed
Yesterday I held a webinar for this year's When Food is Your Mother class, and I was struck by the ways that people are unfurling - blooming into the fullness of themselves. We all have ways that we've contracted, tucked our hearts deep inside to … [Read more]
The yearning for healing and the fear of missing out
You're receiving more emails than usual from me this week as we wrap up the launch of When Food is Your Mother. I hope that these emails offer support whether or not you join this particular offering. In this class, we explore a neurobiological … [Read more]
Trusting how mistakes hold you
One of the themes that we explore in our classes is softening perfectionism. Perfectionism comes up regularly in our healing journeys – particularly our healing journey with food. There's often a felt sense of, “If I can only get it right, and … [Read more]
You are ‘every good thing’ + when the ‘places that long for love’ arise
This year I've been studying with a dear mentor, therapist and teacher Bonnie Badenoch, diving into the world of relational neuroscience. One of the gifts that Bonnie gives is unending compassion, gentleness, and trust in the healing impulse that … [Read more]
Ode to Craving
In the Listen class this week, we're exploring our relationship with cravings - befriending their energy and the cry, underneath them, for help. Cravings can be such fierce things, and we can shy away from their appearance. And yet cravings, at … [Read more]