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 includes … [Read more]
Recovery is not perfection – how loosening up can help you heal
Are you in a battle with your healthy eating plan? Do you want to eat a certain way - say paleo, or low sugar, or more whole foods - but find it very, very difficult to follow? Ah, you're not alone. I hear from so many tender hearted, … [Read more]
When being kind to yourself feels like giving up
I receive a lot of very tender, precious emails from women that all say some version of the same thing - Help! Now that I'm being kinder to myself I'm feeling really *really* unmotivated to: go to the gym to lose the extra weight to set … [Read more]
Letting go with sugar
Dear one, letting go is doing something kind for the sake of doing something kind; not because we expect a payback for our virtue. We let go by finding new ways to relate to sugar, food, our bodies, our needs, our emotions, our wounds, our desires, … [Read more]
Being kind to yourself when negative feelings arise
I don't have PMS today. I swear. But everything is rubbing me the wrong way - that irky combination of feeling overstimulated/stressed/tense and exhausted at the same time, like I want to sleep all day and also scream at the sky! In our house, we … [Read more]
How kindness softens emotional eating
Can you befriend difficult emotions? The poet Rumi writes, This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them … [Read more]