Today is Easter and I am experiencing my own renewal... what I am privately (well not if I'm writing about it..) referring to as my Resurrection Cleanse. Yes, it's juice time again. 3 days of just juice, then juice with one ... 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
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
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
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
Transition From Binge-Eating Gently Without Diets or Deprivation
Although not everyone I work with has significant weight to lose, many of my clients struggle with binge-eating. This is usually what people describe as feeling "out of control" with food.. episodes of feeling like you can't ... Read More
IntuitiveBody.com and FitWoman.com Talk About Making Peace With Food
Last week I had the pleasure of providing a guest blog on FitWoman.com, the blog of the weight management retreat Green Mountain at Fox Run in Ludlow, Vermont. It's actually a 3-parter, given my long-winded answers to their ... Read More
For HSP’s/Empaths.. The Challenges.. or Matching The Energy
As promised in last week's post about the Advantages of Being a Sensitive Empath (if you missed it, you can check it out here ) this week I want to talk about the aspects of being highly sensitive that can be more ... Read More
The Advantages of Being a Highly Sensitive Person/Empath..
When you pick up the emotional energy of others around you as easily as you take in oxygen there is good news and not-so-good news. I want to outline a couple of points on both and this article will focus on the "good" news ... Read More
Two Styles of Making Peace With Food and Eating
The women I work with around losing weight, changing the way they eat and learning to love and honor their bodies in reliable daily ways (The Daily Essentials) tend to fall in one of two categories when it comes to ... Read More