If you're struggling with emotional eating, binge eating, any kind of uncomfortable eating or relationship with your body... this might be just right... xo For most of my 35 yrs as a clinical psychotherapist and later ... Read More
Do you recognize true perfection?
What if... perfection, or your heart's truest desires, showed up in a different way than what you'd dreamed of from the limits of your own imagination. Would you recognize it? What if there was what appeared to be a huge ... Read More
Imperfect timing…leap anyways
Sometimes timing is imperfect...and yet we are asked to take a step anyways. Towards that which we know will change us, heal us, expand us...and we pause.. or we run in the other direction. We want to know how it will turn ... Read More
Ending emotional eating…are you eating stress?
There is so much good information around how our minds and bodies talk to each other. (I love Dr. Lissa Rankin's new book, Mind Over Medicine). Our body hears everything we say... feels the impact of every thought we have. ... Read More
This new year, don’t make changes from fear
First things first... I am wishing you all love and beauty and all blessings for the new year. Of course. And.. I've been paying a lot of attention to my own fears. The ways I talk to myself, how that gets hardened into ... 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
To Make Peace With Your Body..Give Up Perfectionism
One of the phrases I hear more often than anything, around what women want, more than weight loss, or having a perfect body.. or any of those sorts of goals, is that they want to live peacefully in their body.. to be ... Read More
Freedom From Perfectionism Heals Overeating
Understanding perfectionism is a big theme in my work with women who struggle with overeating and body issues. Having long understood that trying to control everything, trying to make everything line up according to my ... Read More
Understanding Overeating and Addiction With Archetypes
Looking at your issues around overeating and your body takes guts, tremendous courage, and compassion (for yourself). One of the (many) reasons diet books and articles and shows (Does Dr. Oz even talk about anything other ... Read More
NOT Your Usual Thanksgiving Weight Loss Advice
It's Thanksgiving week and firstly I want to thank you (so much) for being here, for your interest and emails and the connections that you offer in so many different ways. I am always truly appreciative and grateful to know ... Read More