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
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
The Biggest Success Stories? Not Always Who I Think
I've learned to recognize the clients who will succeed and overcome emotional eating or weight issues.. As with most things..words are cheap, and action is everything. Before I interview a prospective client to see if they ... Read More
One Bite Won’t Hurt You- Overeating and Painful Forms of Sabotage
Has this happened to you? You get honest with yourself about some aspect of your relationship with food.. you make a plan. You're already a bit scared.. you've been here before, and not always kept your promises to yourself. ... Read More
How Perfectionism and Not Indulging in True Desires Drive Emotional and Compulsive Eating
Not indulging in true desires and pleasure makes you vulnerable to emotional eating, compulsive eating and mindless eating..there's a craving but it's not for food. Recently I've noticed...... actually that's a lie.. for ... Read More
Beautiful JuiceFest/Detox Day 7- Perfectionism With a Side of Rationalization
I am imperfect.. in case you were wondering. I was pretty sure that there would be some departure from my own prescribed juicefest guidelines and there were. See what you think of my experience and if you would have felt ... Read More
Beautiful JuiceFest/Detox Day 6- How Much Are You Willing to Feel?
Trying to lose weight? Stop binge eating? Detoxify or cleanse to get more healthy? When you are working on changing your eating, to change your body or your weight, there is one essential question that needs to be asked ... Read More
My Beautiful JuiceFast/Fest Day #3
My Beautiful JuiceFest/Fast Day #3 It's not exactly a juice kind of day...It's been pouring out all. day. long. And I am cold. And hungry. I'm starting to really want food. Grilled salmon for example. That's sort of a good ... Read More
Being Overweight and The Fear of Being Truly Seen
One of my very favorite clients came back to do a focused piece of work with me recently. She came to see me when she was very young, in her early 20's and happily for me she comes back now and then. Because she no longer ... Read More
Your Divine Identity (you are sacred ground)
I was thinking about what to write today.. on my 55th birthday..and what came to me was this- What if you began to treat yourself as the divine being that you truly are? Created from a spark of the Divine, someone that ... Read More
