Most of us try to control our sugar cravings (and our lives.) We try to manage and manipulate so that life meets our expectations. But life is messy and impermanent. How do you make peace with life as it is? How do we make peace with ourselves? And … [Read more]
How shifting your response to stress reduces sugar binges
Why do we crave sugar and food so much more during the holidays? And how do busyness, stress, and overwhelm contribute to holiday sugar bingeing? When life gets busy, we tend to focus on getting stuff done and forget to “be.” Life loses … [Read more]
You don’t have to make doubt wrong
Negative Capability - when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason - John Keats At some point in the journey of growth, feelings of doubt and discouragement may set in. These … [Read more]
What’s the unmet need under the sugar?
It’s not the sugar you really want. You want connection. Love. A voice. Rest. The Divine. Beauty. Beloved, let yourself want what you want – and I mean what you truly want, not the cookies that are the inferior substitute. Seek to … [Read more]
Feeling anxious about giving up sugar?
Psychologist and Jungian scholar James Hollis says that most of our maladaptive strategies are attempts to mitigate anxiety. (Yes this includes bingeing on sugar!) As human beings – with our tender, precious vulnerability – we like to … [Read more]
Saying yes to feelings and no to sugar
When you want to eat less sugar, what happens when you feel an impulse or craving for it? These pesky impulses can seemingly come out of nowhere. You may be going through your day, feeling fine, when all of a sudden, you think, “I really want … [Read more]
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