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]
Breaking free from the “broken self” trance
One of the most painful results of struggling with any form of suffering is how we identify with it. While labels can be helpful - ah, so this is what I'm facing - they can also be harmful. They become harmful when they become the way we define … [Read more]
The alchemy of self acceptance – how acceptance makes change possible
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]
Softening your need to overeat
Overeating, binge eating, or sugar addiction are not character flaws, but misguided attempts to care for unmet needs: in particular, basic needs for safety, connection/attachment, unconditional love, mirroring, emotional validation and … [Read more]
Where unconditional love and weight loss intersect
I'm going to use the d word today - yes, diet. In many circles, diet is considered a dirty word, as all diets or weight loss programs are lumped into a category of "bad." I have a different way of looking at weight loss programs, and how a … [Read more]
The healing power of loving your overeating self
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 … [Read more]
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