Gentle support to soften overeating and eat less sugar
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]