I'm incredibly excited to launch "The Wise Woman Council" Wednesday, August 1st. It was a name without a project attached to it for several years.. I only knew that someday I would collaborate with women that I loved and ... Read More
Why Healing Your Relationships Will Heal Your Overeating
Why Healing Your Relationships Will Heal Your Overeating Even if you figure out how and what to eat in ways that best support your individual body, and even if you learn how to better nurture yourself physically, ... Read More
Why It’s Harder To Stop Overeating In January
I am not a big lover of the month of January, and the older I get, the less enamored I am of the dark gray wintry days. I practically hold my breath until signs of spring return. But as somebody who helps women stop torturing ... Read More
Do You Make Yourself Wrong for Having Needs? It Won’t Work
One of the things I hear my clients struggling with binges and overeating express time and time again is some version of this statement; "I shouldn't need that". Or I shouldn't need so MUCH of it, or STILL need it, or need it ... Read More
My Favorite Quote This Week; What Nutrition Can Never Do
It always amazes me how our bodies react when they hear an incontrovertible truth. I heard one of the most powerful statements ever last Sunday. And yes, it came out of Caroline Myss' mouth. She was in Boston doing a day long ... Read More
Sexual Healing; Your Sexual Template
Your Sexual Template-Part of the series of "Living Beautifully In Your Body" Let's talk about sex, you and me, yes? I love to boast that it's impossible to shock me, having worked in a women's prison and on psychiatric ... Read More
How Caroline Myss Shaped My View of Addiction and Overeating
Addiction, Overeating, and Slowing Time I haven't written much about my time in Caroline Myss' Addictions workshop that I attended the last week of August. Truthfully, I am still trying to digest the intensity and depth ... Read More
Note To Self- Open Your Mind and Let Go (For Chrissake)
Those who can't do teach...there are times when I really feel like I have way too much to learn way too much of the time. Tiny example but still made a huge impression on me. So Sunday mornings I love to go to yoga. I go ... Read More
If you want to balance your weight/eating, It’s all about the reconnect.
Slowing it all down is painful for my clients... they like the high of going fast and faster..multitasking, getting swept up. Believe me, I get it. But what I have to remind everyone (and myself) all the time is that healing ... Read More
Is It Easier To Love Your Body Some Places More Than Others? Why I Adored My Weekend at Kripalu in Lenox
I want to live at Kripalu. If you're like me, you may notice it's just easier to come home to your body and settle in and be loving and accepting and grateful and all that good stuff we're always striving for (sort of, in ... Read More