If you are sick of the usual food and exercise related advice to heal emotional eating and food addiction, I don't blame you. Real relief has little do to with managing food or a new exercise regime. It has to do with ... Read More
The Real Reason People Don’t Stay The Course (When trying to lose weight or stop binge-eating)
There is something you may not have given much thought to, when you're trying to change your weight, change your body, change your thoughts and relationship WITH your body... as you begin to move towards these kinds of ... Read More
Feelings That You Don’t Want to Feel- Like This One
I'm right here, right now, in the thick of it. It's physical, emotional, whatever else you want to name it. And it hurts. I hate it. It washed over me yesterday as I dropped off my youngest son after he came to visit for the ... Read More
It’s October- What I’m Loving Right Now
In the midst of so many changes and transitions, I will always love Autumn in New England, even a bit north in our new digs in New Hampshire, and half the week working up in Vermont. Here's some of what I have been loving, ... Read More
Are You Keeping Your Promises To Yourself- Another Kind of Weight
So one of the things I typically think about a lot is the whole notion of keeping promises. I use the phrase "keeping promises to yourself" a lot with my clients and prospective clients and women in my classes. It definitely ... Read More
Perfect Eating is Not a Goal.. Stop it!
I'm hoping I got your attention, even if that sounded a bit bossy. Because perfect eating truly is a myth and it's not a good one to be chasing. It's yet one more form of perfectionism, and all or nothing nonsense that will ... Read More
Trusting Your Intuitive Guidance and Your IntuitiveBody
Last time I got to write about "Trust" with a capital "T"... it was perfect timing.. of course, everything always is even when we don't know it. Trusting for me is still often in retrospect. The kind of thing where I say to ... Read More
The Declaration of You Blog Lovin’ Tour- Season of Trust
I'm so honored to get to contribute to this project..Written by artist and designer Jessica Swift and creative career coach Michelle Ward, The Declaration of You was published in June 2013 by North Light Craft Books, a ... Read More
Why Your Old Diet Programs Don’t Work Anymore-How to Move Ahead
One thing I hear frequently, both with prospective clients in initial consults, and existing clients is the tendency to go back and do the same things over and over again. Usually something that worked.. ONCE.. and never ... Read More
Lose the Weight of Friendships that Drain You
A common theme in my work with women who are leaving behind a specific season of their life has to do with outgrowing relationships. When they notice that they are ready to take their needs for growth and expansion seriously, ... Read More