Create a more compassionate relationship with yourself
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen, Anthem A few years ago, I joined a gym with my twenty year old daughter. As a soccer player, my daughter … [Read more]
Here in this time of a world pandemic, and in this time of a call for a deeper justice, so much is in motion, aswirl. In my own life, I feel these swirls of change as my 20 year old daughter makes her plans to leave home, as I grieve the death of … [Read more]
Limits are the riverbank to the river: how we steer the flow of our lives. Why limits can feel so scary When we say no to something that we're attached to - like sugar - we can feel anxious, a sense of groundlessness or emptiness without our … [Read more]
One of the deepest sorrows we experience in life is the pain of separation - especially the separation from our wholeness. When our lives are ruptured - when we experience pain, loss, trauma, or separation that's too much to bear - when we walk … [Read more]
As we come into September, I'm moving into "when food is your mother" season. This is the time of year when I explore this idea of how, when we're under stress, we can turn to food as a 'mothering presence' - a place of care, nurturing, and … [Read more]
We should stop using the word addiction and shift to a new word – bonding.” – Professor Peter Cohen In my signature course, When Food is Your Mother, I talk about what it means to be bonded with food: to use food to care for our relational and … [Read more]