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]
Cravings are like water, like waves, and need to move. Here as we find ourselves in a pandemic, journeying through cycles of uncertainty, financial stress, and social distancing, you may notice that you're feeling more sugar cravings than … [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]
I've been making changes in my course offerings for 2020 and today I have good news to share. Last year, I took The 30 Day Lift, my most popular sugar class of all time, rewrote it, rerecorded it, and renamed it as Emerge: Create a New Habit. The … [Read more]
In the Christmas season of the Christian tradition, we celebrate the magic and wonder of birth, the light in the dark, and the 'soul knowing its worth.' I see this miracle of birth over and over in my classes - when we face our painful sugar … [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]