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
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
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
Is This Your Mother? Critical Mothers and Overweight Daughters
I have a confession. I sometimes watch reality television. Recently I watched an episode of a show called "The Shahs of Sunset". As in many "reality" shows, there's no real premise. This one is about 5 or 6 attractive and ... Read More
Relief For Binges, Overeating, and “Vampire” Foods…
Binges, Overeating and "Vampire" Foods... I was talking to a new acquaintance recently and we were talking about a variety of topics. He had asked me about my work with women and my perspective on eating related issues ... Read More
Body Hatred Is A Way You Betray Yourself..and it hurts
I listen to women a lot. Not just because it's my job as a therapist, but out in the world. People tend to see me as extroverted, but the truth is I am an introvert at heart. I like to listen, and observe, staying in my ... Read More
3 Tried and True Techniques to Go From Strung-Out to Blissed-Out.. no chocolate required..
When you're in the thick of it.. feeling kind of desperate and in a downward spiral of negative behaviors that leave you feeling like you will absolutely never ever get it together no way no how...take heart and ... Read More
Making Friends With Compulsion- Turning The Energy Around
Making friends with the part of our nature we consider "compulsive" is a powerful and smart thing to do. It is the most gorgeous clear and sunny day here, finally.... just took a long walk up my beloved orchard-town hills ... Read More
