I have a dear friend, the kind with whom I talk about the really big stuff. We have known each other since we were 18 and so have been through countless life events together. So many moments of beauty and joy and wonder. And ... 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
What’s harder- Changing a belief or a behavior?
Something I know about making personal changes...It's so much easier to change our way of thinking, believing, acting, reacting and such when we are not in the thick of it. When something is triggering the hell out of us, ... 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
Playing Possum and Making Ourselves “Wrong”
This is the second part of a two-part essay on trusting your guidance, and why we so often don't. Why trusting our intuitive knowing can make us uncomfortable and how that may cost us. You can read part 1 here. Why do we ... 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
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
Intuitive Counseling- New Approaches For Weight Loss and Finding Love
One of the things you may least like to hear when you are working to make a change.. whether around your relationship to your body, or in attracting a new love relationship, or to work that you love.. Anytime you want more ... Read More
